Thanks to a Tiffany Studios work, the design sale at Christie’s brought in a combined total of $23.6 million even in a slow market.
On Thursday, Christie’s organized two auctions related to design works. The first was the “American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins”, a single-collection auction that fetched $8.1 million. The other was the Design sale that yielded $15.4 million.
The single-owner sale featured 34 lots. However, most of the revenue came from the sale of two works: a pair of works by Alberto Giacometti that fetched $2.95 million and $2.83 million, respectively. Two other works managed to cross the seven-figure mark – a bronze and copper chandelier by French sculptor Claude Lalanne (which hammered at $1.5 million), and a bronze sculpture of Zeus and Europa that fetched $1.13 million (including fees).
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The Design sale featured the top work of the evening, The Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios. The three-pane, six-foot-tall work features colorful scenery of flowers and landscape. It was hammered at $3.5 million ($4.28 million including fees) against an estimate of $2 million – $3 million. This makes it the second-highest price fetched for a work by Tiffany Studios, following a $12.5 million work sold at Sotheby’s last year. It only solidified the resurgence of Tiffany Studios in modern conversations. In 2023, MMA acquired another three-part glasswork by the artist, while last month, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced it had also acquired an artwork by Studios.
