David Hockney, Design for the Neal Street Restaurant Menu (David Hockney’s Favourite Meal). © Sotheby's Images

LONDON.- Yesterday’s sale of 20th century British art at Sotheby’s realised £10,900,180 ($22,107,745) – outstripping its top estimate by a wide margin, and establishing new benchmarks for works by British artists. The total ranks at the highest for any sale of 20th-century British art ever staged by Sotheby’s, outstripping last December’s all-time high (of £7.7 million) by a wide margin.

Together, 29 works from the collection of Antonio and Priscilla Carluccio from the Neal Street Restaurant realised £166,740 against a pre-sale estimate of £77,000-111,000. David Hockney’s design for the restaurant menu more than doubled its top estimate, selling for £48,000 to an anonymous collector. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20989

Sir Winston Churchill, Chartwell Landscape with Sheep, oil on canvas, record for the artist at auction. © Sotheby's Images