Pi-eX TOP 10

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

YEAR 2017

TOP 10 unhappiest sellers (or guarantors...) in 2017
The worst thing that can happen to a seller at auction is that his/her artwork is "bought in", ie unsold. This happens when no one makes an offer above the seller's reserve price. The owners of the following 10 artworks all encountered this sad fate in 2017 and the disappointment must have been clear as the works featured some of the highest Low estimates ahead of the auctions.
Source: Pi-eX Ltd proprietary database of auction results
1. "Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd Version 1971", Francis Bacon
  • EOR (**): £60,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • October 6th, 2017
  • Christie's Contemporary, London
    • 3. "II Duce", Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • LE (***): $25,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • November 15th, 2017
  • Christie's Contemporary evening sale, New York
    • 5. "Figures dancing on the bank of a river with a fish-seller, ...", Jan Brueghel
  • LE (***): £5,500,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • July 6th, 2017
  • Christie's Old Masters evening sale, London
    • 7. "Bronze" by Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • LE (***): £5,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • October 5th, 2017
  • Sotheby's Contemporary evening sale, London
    • 9. "Gold Nude", John Currin
  • LE (***): $6,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • November 15th, 2017
  • Christie's Contemporary evening sale, New York
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    2. "Einzelne Häuser (Häuser mit Bergen)...", Egon Schiele
  • LE (***): £20,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • June 27th, 2017
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, London
    • 4. "Maison Fondee ", Jean Dubuffet
  • LE (***): $12,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • November 16th, 2017
  • Sotheby's Contemporary evening sale, New York
    • 6. "Portrait de Madame Malpel", Kees von Dongen
  • LE (***): $7,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • November 13th, 2017
  • Christie's Impressionist evening sale, New York
    • 8. "Le loing à Moret, en été", Alfred Sisley
  • LE (***): £5,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • March 1st 2017
  • Sotheby's Impressionist evening sale, London
    • 10. "Summer Painting", Brice Marden
  • LE (***): $6,000,000
  • Bought-in (*)
  • November 15th, 2017
  • Christie's Contemporary evening sale, New York
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    (*) Bought-in: unsold work
    (**) EOR: Estimate on Request
    (***) LE: Low Estimate
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