Art from antiquity to the 21st century
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Event date 30 June - 8 July -
Event location London
Classic Week delivered exceptional results across seven sales, bringing together remarkable works spanning millennia of art, history and collecting. Collectors from around the world competed for objects of outstanding rarity and significance, resulting in landmark prices and seven world auction records.
The series opened with seven world auction records across the Old Masters Evening Sale and The Exceptional Sale, led by Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, two record-breaking still lifes by Jan van Huysum and a first edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, which achieved a new world auction record for the author.
Ancient Wonders saw a Roman marble head of Ganymede realise £152,400 against an estimate of £85,000–95,000, while the Old Masters to Modern Day Sale was led by Sir Alfred Munnings' After the Race, Cheltenham, which sold for £419,100.
Old Master Prints was highlighted by Rembrandt's The Three Trees, realising £355,600, while Lines of Vision: Celebrating 20 Years of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art was led by Pablo Picasso's Le Peintre et son modèle, which sold for £508,000.
Classic Week concluded with the most valuable various-owner Books and Manuscripts sale ever held in London, led by The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, which realised £2,246,000.
The series opened with seven world auction records across the Old Masters Evening Sale and The Exceptional Sale, led by Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, two record-breaking still lifes by Jan van Huysum and a first edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, which achieved a new world auction record for the author.
Ancient Wonders saw a Roman marble head of Ganymede realise £152,400 against an estimate of £85,000–95,000, while the Old Masters to Modern Day Sale was led by Sir Alfred Munnings' After the Race, Cheltenham, which sold for £419,100.
Old Master Prints was highlighted by Rembrandt's The Three Trees, realising £355,600, while Lines of Vision: Celebrating 20 Years of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art was led by Pablo Picasso's Le Peintre et son modèle, which sold for £508,000.
Classic Week concluded with the most valuable various-owner Books and Manuscripts sale ever held in London, led by The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, which realised £2,246,000.
