Christie's edge Sotheby's in Impressionist & Modern

February 9 2012

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Picture: Sotheby's/Art Daily

In the Impressionist & Modern evening sales this week in London, Sotheby's sold £78.9m, but Christie's came out on top with £97.8m. Sotheby's top price was £8.2m for a snowy landscape by Monet of 1885, L'Entree de Giverny en Hiver [being sold by Henry Wyndham above]. Sotheby's 'forgotten' Klimt did not sell in the room when estimated at £6-8m, but sold soon afterwards for £5.6m. Over at Christie's, the top seller was the £19m Henry Moore mentioned below.