Foujita record brings many happy returns for Bonhams
'La fête d’anniversaire' by the Japanese-French artist Léonard Foujita (1886-1968) sold for a hammer price of £6.1m (plus buyer's premium) to one of eight phone bidders at Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale on October 11.
The price, several times the estimate of £900,000-1.3m is a new auction record for the artist.
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