Christie’s 20^th/21^st Century: London Evening Sale on 15 October 2025 generated a total of £106,925,400 / $142,852,334 / €122,750,359, a 30% increase on the total achieved last year, and was 92% sold by lot and 90% sold by value.

• Peter Doig’s Ski Jacket (1994) sold for £14,270,000 / $19,064,720 / €16,381,960, against an estimate of £6,000,000-8,000,000, after over 13 minutes of bidding across six bidders
• World auction records achieved for Paula Rego, Suzanne Valadon, Annie Morris and Esben Weile Kjær
• The lots offered tonight from The Ole Faarup Collection totalled £27,318,500 / $36,497,516 / €31,361,683, benefiting The Ole Faarup Art Foundation*
• Buyers were 56% from EMEA, 28% from Americas, 16% from APAC

Katharine Arnold and Keith Gill, Vice-Chairmen 20^th/21^st Century Art, Christie’s Europe: “Tonight we have achieved the highest total for a Frieze Week Evening Sale at Christie’s in seven years. We entered the week with confidence, with carefully priced material, and witnessed a spirited and well attended public view at King Street. With great energy in the room, tonight’s auction presented a diverse selection of works united by quality, reflecting Christie’s ongoing commitment from our team of world class specialists, and we were delighted to receive the enthusiasm and trust of our clients. We presented works from more than ten named collections, and we are thrilled by the results achieved by the lots offered from The Ole Faarup Collection. Beyond the strong results tonight, this auction celebrates not only great art, but also the individuality and passion of the collectors who make this community so vibrant. We are proud to have realised such a solid outcome during Frieze Week, a moment that highlights the energy and cultural vitality of London’s art scene.”

NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORDS

• Paula Rego, Dancing Ostriches from Walt Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ (1995) – price realised £3,466,000 / $4,630,576 / €3,978,968
• Suzanne Valadon, Deux nus ou Le bain (1923) – price realised £1,016,000 / $1,357,376 / €1,166,368
• Annie Morris, Bronze Stack 9, Copper Blue (2015) – price realised £482,600 / $644,754 / €554,025
• Esben Weile Kjær, Aske and Johan upside down kissing in Power Play at Kunstforeningen GL STRAND (2020) – price realised £25,400 / $33,934 / €29,159

TOP FIVE LOTS

The sale featured museum-quality works by artists currently the subject of major institutional exhibitions, including Gerhard Richter, who is the focus of a retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, and Peter Doig, whose solo show House of Music is now on view at the Serpentine Galleries. Several works offered tonight have also been requested for forthcoming museum exhibitions, among them Lucian Freud’s Self-portrait Fragment for Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2026), Franz Marc’s Fabeltiere I (Tierkomposition I) for Franz-Marc – The Quest for a Better World at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2026–27), and Paula Rego’s Dancing Ostriches from Walt Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ for Dance Among Thorns at the MUNCH Museum, Oslo (2026). Iconic examples such as Peter Doig’s Country Rock—the cover image of his Tate Britain retrospective in 2008 – and Chris Ofili’s Blossom, which featured on the poster and catalogue cover of his 2010 Tate exhibition, further underscore the exceptional calibre of the sale.

Paul Cezanne’s Maison de Bellevue et pigeonnier (c. 1890)

Our 20/21 Sales continue with the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale and Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection on 16 October, followed by the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale on 17 October. Among the Artists: The Ole Faarup Collection Online Sale and Post-War and Contemporary Art Online will remain open for bidding until 21 and 22 October, respectively.

Next week, our 20/21 sales will continue with the Modern British and Irish Art sales in London (22 and 23 October), followed by the auctions in Paris (23-24 October) and New York (17-20 November). All information available on christies.com

* 100% of the hammer price for these lots will benefit The Ole Faarup Art Foundation.