€16.429.303 for Peter Doig’s Ski Jacket led the auction, which realised a sell-through rate of 92 per cent by lot and 90 per cent by value. Strong results for works by Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Paul Cezanne, as well as four new artist records
As the art world turned its gaze to London for Frieze Week 2025, Christie's London Evening Sale realised £106,925,400 / $142,852,334 / €122,750,359. This result is up 30 per cent on the total achieved last year. With a sell-through rate of 90 per cent by value and 92 per cent by lot, the result proves the auction house’s enduring role in the capital’s art market.
Presided over by auctioneers Adrien Meyer and Yü-Ge Wang, bids came in from the floor, telephones and on Christie’s LIVE for the curated selection of 60 lots — 67 per cent of which were fresh to auction. More than 56 per cent of bidders were from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while 28 per cent came from the Americas, and 16 per cent from Asia and the Pacific.
The night’s result is Christie’s highest London Frieze Week evening sale total in seven years, signalling an increased demand for exceptional quality, impressive provenance and works fresh to the market.
Four new auction records were set on the night — three of them by women artists.
Paula Rego’s monumental triptych, Dancing Ostriches from Walt Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ (1995), formerly in the Saatchi Collection, made €3.990.467.
Following her retrospective at the Pompidou earlier this year, Suzanne Valadon’s large, double nude Deux nus ou Le bain (1923), made €1.169.739.
Annie Morris’s Bronze Stack 9, Copper Blue (2015) — a rare bronze version of one of her iconic totems — made €555.626.
Elsewhere, Esben Weile Kjær’s stained glass Aske and Johan upside down kissing in Power Play at Kunstforeningen GL STRAND (2020), also from the Faarup collection, achieved €29.243.
Main Image: Peter Doig, Ski Jacket