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Christie's evening auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art held on February 14, 2012 in London totalled £80,576,100 ($126,504,477 / EUR96,127,287) selling 95% by value and 89% by lot.

This was the 2^nd highest total for the category at Christie's London. The top lot of the sale was Francis Bacon's Portrait of Henrietta Moraes which sold for £21.3 million.

Combined with Post-War & Contemporary art offered from Living With Art: A Private European Collection on 9^th and 10^th February, sales in the category this month have realised £96.6 million to date.

Top Ten:

[All sold prices include buyer's premium]

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963 price fetched:

£21,321,250, $33,474,363 , €25,436,251

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild, 1994 Estimate £ 5,000,000 - 7,000,000 Price fetched:£9,897,250 , $15,538,683 ,€11,807,419

Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), Agrigente, 1953 Estimate £ 3,500,000 - 5,000,000

Price fetched : £5,305,250 , $8,329,243, €6,329,163

Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Untitled, 1990  Estimate £ 2,5-3,5 million. Price fetched: £4,913,250,$7,713,803 ,€5,861,507

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Piero Manzoni (1933-1963), Achrome, 1958-1959  Estimate: £1,800,000 - 2,500,000  Price fetched:£2,729,250 ,$4,284,923 ,€3,255,995

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1967  Estimate: £900,000 - 1,200,000 Price fetched:£2,057,250 ,$3,229,883 ,€2,454,299

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto spaziale, Forma, 1958  Estimate: £ 1,500,000 - 2,000,000 Price fetched:£1,889,250 ,$2,966,123 ,€2,253,875

Yves Klein (1928-1962), ANT 40, circa 1961 Estimate: £ 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Price fetched £1,777,250 ,$2,790,283 ,€2,120,259

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1983  Estimate:

£1,800,000 - 2,500,000 Price fetched: £1,721,250 ,,$2,702,363 €2,053,451