Pferd, an important painting by the German Expressionist painter Franz Marc, sold for £1,095,063 at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London today (10 October). Unseen in public for 70 years and never before offered at auction, it had an estimate of £350,000-550,000. The sale made a total of £6,955,750 with 85% by lot, 94% by value. The total included £1,385,000 for ten works from the collection of Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, among the highlights of which were: • L’un des Bourgeois de Calais: Ètude de nu monumentale pour Pierre de Wissant by Auguste Rodin sold for £675,063. It had been estimated at £400,000-600,000. The sculpture relates to one of the artist’s most career defining subjects: The Burghers of Calais. • Cheval au bord de la mare by Edgar Degas which sold for £225,063. Executed circa 1892 it had
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