Christie's Imp-Mod Evening Sale = £165.6m

Christie's posts a big London Imp-Mod Evening despite top lot stumble; Poons breaks market cocoon; Phillips New Now = $5.2m; 60% of sold lots go above estimates in Sotheby's £21m Imp-Mod Day sale

Christie’s London Imp-Mod Evening Sales = £165.6m

The Evening sales at Christie’s were a mixed bag. The single-owner sale of the Wallace brothers collection performed poorly against overly ambitious estimates. Only three of those lots made the top ten for the evening; and only Renoir’s Sentier dans le bois outperforming estimates. Record prices for Caill…