The painting "Little Confectioner" Soutine was sold for $ 18 million, for $ 13 million bought "Three Acrobats" Chagall, but for "Self-Portrait with Model," Egon Schiele paid 11.3 million

Result evening auction Christie's «Impressionist and Modern Art" held on May 8, amounted to 158.5 million dollars. The auction showed the highest sales figures since 2006: the hammer took 94%(on lots) and 90%(by value) of the work. Of the 49 works offered for auction were sold 4 more $ 10 million, 10 pieces - more than $ 5 million and 36 works - more expensive than 1 million.

• Chaim Soutine A small pastry.
  Circa 1927 Oil on canvas. 76,5 x 68,9
  Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 21
  Estimate: 16-22 million dollars
  Result: 18 million dollars
  Source: christies.com

top lot of the auction was the canvas Chaim Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) «Small pastry." This is one of the most recognizable scenes in the creative career of the artist. Work even put to the cover of the second volume of the catalog raisonné, it works. The canvas was sold by auction the auctioneer Andreas Rumblera for $ 18 million, setting a new world record for the value of his works at public auction. Previous record holder was a picture of the "man in the red scarf", sold for 8.7 million pounds ($ 17.2 million) in 2007.

Work "Little pastry", written about 1927 , is the final in a series of six portraits of the pastry, created Soutine for nearly a decade. During the time while he was working on this series, life Soutine changed beyond recognition: from unknown author, he became an artist of international renown, thanks to his talent discovered by the American collector and philanthropist Dr. Albert Barnes.

Image pastry for Soutine is an early study of the figure in uniform - a theme that occupied him for a long time, as he later began to portray the valets, bellboys and waiters. Sutin had a taste of the bitter taste of poverty, and by portraying the servants, he thereby perpetuating their images. Despite the fact that the form dehumanizes man, Soutine able to grasp the individual features of their models. Since 1977, the painting was in a private European collection.

Marc Chagall Three acrobat. 1926 Oil on canvas. 116,2 x 88,4 Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 40 Estimate: 6-9 million dollars Result: 13 million dollars Source: christies.com

Painting brush Marc Chagall «Three acrobat" in 1926 was sold for $ 13 million. This copy is a strong desire to recreate the lost pre-war past. The first version of the "Three Acrobats" refers to 1914, but the location of this work is unknown. Returning to Paris in 1920, Chagall was trying from memory and photographs to recreate the lost works in his new versions were differences in composition and color scheme, which was evidence of the development of his style for a long time. As an example, one difference - if the original version in the background shows the arch to describe the circus arena, then the new job artists have depicted the scene. Theme of the circus, Chagall studied in these years, will permeate his later work, allowing him to take a special place in the galaxy of the Impressionists and artists of the early XX century, which drew inspiration from the scene - such as Degas, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Egon Schiele Self-portrait with a model. 1913 Oil on canvas. 70,5 x 241,2 Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 37 Estimate: 5-7 million dollars Result: 11.3 million dollars Source: christies.com

work of Egon Schiele ( 1890-1918) "Self-Portrait with Model," (1913) was sold for $ 11.3 million, significantly higher than the estimate 5-7 million dollars. The picture belongs to a series of daring religious allegories in which Schiele portrayed himself along with his lover and model Valerie Noytsil. This work is considered the most complete of all is that the artist has created. In this work, Schiele talks about his mysterious role of the artist. The house Christie's put this work at auction on behalf of the Neue Galerie in New York. The proceeds from the sale of "Self-Portrait with Model," will go to new acquisitions.

Portrait of "The Jewess" brush Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), twice as much as their estimated value, and was auctioned off for 6.8 million. This is a vivid picture American Maud Abrantes was probably written in 1907 and participated in the Salon des Independants in 1908. Through participation in the exhibition the painting was among the few early works by the artist, who survived. The paper "Jewess" is critical to the understanding of the creative development of the artist, as it is written in the time of accession to the artist's modernist trends in Paris, at the crucial moment of transition from Fauvism to Cubism. Modern picture elements are used to express the emotional state of the model, while it is physically placed in a social context. It is through these stylistic techniques Modigliani soon became the most prominent portrait painter of the XX century.

Amedeo Modigliani A Jewish woman. 1907 Oil on canvas. 54,9 x 46 Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 2 Estimate: 2-3 million dollars Result: $ 6.8 million Source: christies.com

Pablo Picasso Mandolin and the importance of music. 1923 Oil on canvas, sand. 97 x 130 Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 35 Estimate: 8-12 million dollars Result: $ 9.2 million Source: christies.com

painting by Pablo Picasso" mandolin, and the importance of music "(1923) from the collection of Mona Ackerman was sold for $ 9.2 million. This exquisite still life, made exclusively in deep shades of red and brown, sends the viewer to the era of the 1920s. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, the artist took the opportunity that the juxtaposition of the two elements of still life, in this case - is a stringed instrument and elements of dining utensils.

Claude Monet Argenteuil. At the end of afternoon. 1872 Oil on canvas, sand. 60 x 81,3 Christie's. 08/05/2013. Lot 17 Estimate: 5-7 million dollars Result: 6 million dollars Source: christies.com

work by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) entitled "Argenteuil. At the end of afternoon "was sold for $ 6 million. Types of Argenteuil is widely recognized as a significant milestone in the history of the Impressionist flow. Carefully drawn composition recreates a sense of order and beauty, in which the French so yearned for by the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Bobbing on the waves of the Seine boats, peasant hut against the sky and a factory building in the distance represent the symbiosis of old and new, the synthesis of natural and human started.

Top 10 lots in the evening at Christie's auction «Impressionist and Modern Art" May 8, 2013, New York

№ lot	Description	Estimate, million dollars	result, million U.S.	Buyer
21	Chaim Soutine Small pastry. Circa 1927 world auction record for the artist's works	16-22	18	anonymous buyer
40	Marc Chagall Three acrobat. 1926	6-9	13	anonymous buyer
37	Egon Schiele Self Portrait with a model. 1913	5-7	11,3	private buyer, Europe
14	Joan Miró painting. 1933	10-15	10,99	anonymous buyer
35	Pablo Picasso Mandolin and the importance of music. 1923	8-12	9,2	Dealer, Europe
23	Pablo Picasso Seated Woman in red on a blue background. 1953	7-10	8,5	anonymous buyer
2	Amedeo Modigliani The Jewess. Around 1907-1908	2-3	6,8	anonymous buyer
38	PABLO PICASSO A man and a woman. 1921	5-7	6,3	anonymous buyer
17	Argenteuil by Claude Monet. At the end of afternoon. 1872	5-7	6	private buyer, Europe
19	Claude Monet Road. 1885	2-3	5,2	Addison Fine Arts LLC

Source : Press Release Christie's