Pi-eX TOP 10

New York & London Art Evening Sales at
Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips

YEAR 2017

TOP 10 most driven buyers in 2017
The list of the top 10 most driven buyers of the year includes buyers who were willing to bid for amounts way above the initial Low Estimate or Estimate on Request set by the sellers and the auction houses for specific lots. The buyer of the “Salvatore Mundi” makes by far the top of the list while other driven buyers were more “moderate”. Interestingly all sales happened in New York but one that took place in London.
Source: Pi-eX Ltd proprietary database of auction results
1. "Salvatore Mundi", Leonardo de Vinci
  • Estimate on Request (EOR): $100m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $400m
  • HP-EOR: $300m
  • Christie's Contemporary, New York
    • 3. "La Muse Endormie", Constantin Brancusi
  • Low Estimate (LE): $25m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $51m
  • HP-LE: $26m
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, New York
    • 5. "Les Amoureux", Marc Chagall
  • Low Estimate (LE): $12m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $25m
  • HP-LE: $13m
  • Sotheby's Impressionist evening sale, New York
    • 7. "Leda and the Swan" by Cy Twombly
  • Low Estimate (LE): $35m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $47m
  • HP-LE: $12m
  • Christie's Contemporary evening sale, New York
    • 9. "Le Moissonneur", Vincent van Gogh
  • Low Estimate (LE): £12.5
  • Hammer Price (HP): £21.5m
  • HP-LE: £9m
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, London
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    2. "Untitled", Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Estimate on Request (EOR) $60m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $98m
  • HP-EOR: $38m
  • Sotheby's Contemporary evening sale, New York
    • 4. "Laboureur dans un Champ", Vincent van Gogh
  • Estimate on Request (EOR) $50m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $72m
  • HP-EOR: $22m
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, New York
    • 6. "Femme Accroupie (Jacqueline)", Pablo Picasso
  • Low Estimate (LE): $20m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $32.5m
  • HP-EOR: $12.5m
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, New York
    • 8. "Female Head", Roy Lichtenstein
  • Low Estimate (LE): $10m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $21.5m
  • HP-EOR: $11.5m
  • Sotheby's Contemporary evening sale, New York
    • 10. "Last Supper", Andy Warhol
  • Low Estimate (LE): $6m
  • Hammer Price (HP): $16.5m
  • HP-EOR: $10.5m
  • Christie's Contemporary evening sale, New York
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