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Last week’s London 20th / 21st Century Art sales, which coincided with Frieze London art fair, showed a strong focus on contemporary art. Modern and early Contemporary art sales offered just under 450 lots that sold for £ 206,949,304 in total. This is around half the result achieved during the June London sales were, however, there also were double as many lots for sale.
Under the name “Contemporary Art Evening Sale”, omitting the usual “Modern art” in the title, Sotheby’s brought to auction works from Post-War to present art movements and focused on fewer and more Contemporary art centered sales overall, with the last sale held on Saturday and not as usual during the work week only. Christie’s, on the other hand, embedded their main auctions alongside non-global sales to form their London Marquee Week, including Modern British and Irish art and Contemporary African art. Phillips, in turn, only offered an evening sale of 37 lots and no traditional day sale at this time.