Artcurial’s Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & Contemporary departments closed their year with a series of remarkable sales totalling €10,931,204 / $11,466,833 including fees on December 6 and 7.

Under the hammer of Francis Briest, the dispersal of the collections of Germaine Richier and Massimo Campigli, modern art sales achieved €6,416,001 / $6,730,385 including fees, while contemporary art sales totalled €4,515,203 / $4,736,448 including fees, including a sculpture by Franz West that sold for €341,120 / $358,060 including fees.

ILLUSTRATION: Printemps au bord du Loing – circa 1881, 34 x 73 cm, oil on canvas, by Alfred Sisley, which sold for 1,228,400 euros