€20.5m magic of Marcilhac name

A packed saleroom and a continuous barrage of phone bids combined to ensure a near sell-out, multi-estimate result at Sotheby’s in Paris for their three-session auction (in association with Artcurial) of the collection of Félix Marcilhac.

All bar 15 of the 313 lots sold to total €20.5m hammer, two and a half times the original prediction…

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