Joan Miro Painting-Poem (Le corps de ma brune puisque je l'aime comme ma chatte habillée en vert salade comme de la grêle c'est pareil) 1925 £16,841,250 ($26,757,626) Christie’s London Feb. 7, 2012
Ace Christie’s auctioneer Christopher Burge used to say that you could sell art from a rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic if the property was good enough, a sentiment that typically applied to the b-level February sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in London. But no more. The global art boom has made these winter half-season auctions events in their own right.
