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René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie led the London Evening Sales with a £10.3 million result, while Michael Andrews established a new auction record for the School of London painter. Across both London Evening Sale and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, Christie’s reported totals of £130,251,700 / $166,591,924 / €156,302,040, with 94% sold by lot and 97% by value.
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Gustav Klimt painted Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona (1897), a portrait of an Osu prince now offered by W&K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Gallery at TEFAF Maastricht for €15 million. The painting, lost after World War II, was identified by Alfred Weidinger as a portrait of an Osu prince from the region now called Ghana, with provenance hinting at its original display at ethnographic exhibitions in Vienna.
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Gustav Klimt’s 1897 portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona, a Ga prince from what is now Ghana, rediscovered and on display at Wienerroither & Kohlbacher at TEFAF Maastricht for about €15 million (roughly $16.3 million). The work, thought lost since the 1930s, was authenticated after restoration and a restitution settlement with the Klein heirs; it was painted during Klimt’s Vienna era and previously exhibited in 1928.
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The Onzea-Govaerts Collection curated by Axel Vervoordt totals €10M| $10.8M; the sale highlighted works by Rik Wouters including a portrait of his wife and muse Nel, Reflets, 1912, acquired for €2,460,000, establishing a world record for the artist, and notable pieces such as a Concetto Spaziale, Attese by Lucio Fontana and an Egyptian granite head of Sekhmet.
hyperallergic.com
Klimt painted a portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuon, a member of the Ga (Osu) people, which resurfaced at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, exhibited by Wienerroither and Kohlbacher. The painting, dating to 1897, was rediscovered in 2023 and is linked to Klimt's decorative turn and early Vienna Secession context, as well as a dark colonial history tied to ethnographic showcases.
artlyst.com
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 concluded with strong sales across sectors and acquisitions of works by Pacita Abad, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Zeng Fanzhi, Yayoi Kusama, Betty Muffler, Yu Peng, Christina Quarles, Pinaree Sanpitak, Park Seo-bo, Félix González-Torres, Zhi Wei, and Lu Yang.
Phillips
Christie’s examines PHILLIPS UNVEILS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LONDON NEW NOW: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE and its significance for artists, collectors, institutions, or the art market.
Christie’s
How a burning passion for English country-house style, nurtured from childhood, propelled the London-based dealer to create one of Britain’s most influential antique and reproduction furniture businesses
Christie’s
The Hungarian maker of ‘pictures that attack the eye’ channelled Einstein and Heisenberg to push the boundaries of geometric abstraction — but found equal inspiration in the canvases of Malevich and Mondrian. An important group of his works is offered in Paris on 8 April
Christie’s
A leading highlight of the 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in Hong Kong this March, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sabado por la Noche captures his signature style and marks a defining moment in his career
Christie’s
The great tastemaker describes how he brought ‘harmony’ and ‘positive energy’ to a group of objects ranging from Chinese ritual vessels to Japanese screens via Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Lucio Fontana and sculpture from Borneo
Phillips
Christie’s examines PHILLIPS UNVEILS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INAUGURAL EDITIONS AUCTION IN HONG KONG AMID STRONG MARKET DEMAND and its significance for artists, collectors, institutions, or the art market.
Christie’s
94 per cent sold by lot, 97 per cent sold by value and 43 per cent of lots sold above the high estimate across both evening sales, which were led by René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie at £10.3 million, and saw a new auction record for School of London painter Michael Andrews
Christie’s
A seminal painting by Sayed Haider Raza, magnificent 18th-century ‘dragon’ dish and rare Buddhist heads spanning centuries are amongst the top lots selected by Christie’s Specialists this spring