SMASHINGS RECORDS
2018 The star lot in the Impressionist And Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie’s New York on November 11, 2018, Claude Monet’s Le Bassin
Aux Nymphéas (1917–1919) sold for US$31.8 million to a Chinese buyer.
2017 Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa bought Jean‑Michel Basquiat’s Untitled, 1982 for a record US$110.5 million via Sotheby’s. 2017 A Hong Kong-based collector spent US$81.3 million at Christie’s on Van Gogh’s Laboureur Dans Un Champ (1889), the second‑ highest price paid for a painting by the Dutch master. 2016 Jenny Saville’s
Shift (1996–1997) sold to The Long Museum in Shanghai for £6.8 million at Sotheby’s, setting an auction record for the artist. 2015 Claude Monet’s Bassin Aux Nymphéas, Les Rosiers (1913) was purchased by China’s Dalian Wanda Group for US$20.41 million through Sotheby’s. 2015 Chinese collector Wang Zhongjun, co-founder and Chairman of entertainment giant Huayi Brothers Media Group, bought Picasso’s Femme Au Chignon Dans Un Fauteuil (1948) for US$29.93 million at Sotheby’s.