RESULTS: Christie’s Old Master & British Drawings including property from The Cornelia Bessie Estate Totals $3,803,875

New York — Christie’s online auction Old Master & British Drawings including property from The Cornelia Bessie Estate achieved a total of $3,803,875 and was 83% sold by lot, 100% sold by value and 137% hammer above low estimate. The top lot of the sale was a red-chalk figure study Young woman dozing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard from the Cornelia Bessie collection which sold for $1,110,000, exceeding its estimate of $300,000-500,000. Additional top lots which sold above their high estimates include Jean-Étienne Liotard’s pastel Portrait of Philibert, which totaled $810,000, and a large drawing Binding of Isaac by Laurent de La Hyre, which realized $200,000.
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