With a sale total of €137,600,000, the series was the highest result for the category for Christie’s France and the most important week of sales since Yves Saint Laurent auction in 2009. The total was up 46% year-on-year with 50% of lots sold above their high estimates.

The Paris week started with the Durand-Ruel, Generations of Vision auction, which totalled more than €41 million, selling 100% and was led by Claude Monet's Bord des Falaises de Pourville, kept by the Durand-Ruel family for over 140 years, selling for €12,785,000. The Durand-Ruel collection is the highest value single-owner 20/21 centuries art collection ever sold at Christie’s Paris.

The 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, including Thinking Italian, totalled over €66 million including nearly €26.5 ‌million for Thinking Italian, reaffirming collector’s appetite for Italian avant-gardes. Concetto Spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco by Lucio Fontana achieved €6,815,000 followed by Minoutcha by Amedeo Modigliani which soared to €6,205,000. The Contemporary art part of the sale achieved a new record for Jeff Koons in France when Ode to Love sold for €3,155,000.

The auctions on 23 October continued this positive momentum with the Modern Art Day Sale, which recorded a total of €17,927,296 marked by several major results for Renoir, Picasso while the Contemporary Art Day Sale, featuring works from the Antonio Homem Sonnabend collection, totalled €11,985,920.

With 12,500 visitors, the season brought together collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world, underscoring the vitality and international appeal of 20th and 21st Century Art.

Christie’s 20/21 sale series will continue with the Fall Marquee Week in New York highlighted by masterpieces of modern and contemporary art from 17 to 23 November.