Auction Highlight: Watch Bidding Battle for Kees van Dongen's La Quiétude | Christie's Inc

Painted in 1918, Kees van Dongen masterpiece, La Quiétude, sparked intense bidding before selling at Christie's London for £10,755,000 in the auction of Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship.
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[@Zaidemeit]

"Where the elite meet!!!" --Betty Davis

[@kristag9891]

I love this auctioneer!! And what an exquisite painting. I am a painter also, and this painting brings much joy!

[@idid1866]

Too much for that piece!

[@beachboy13600]

I bought one yesterday for a tanner

[@KS-xz2rq]

I would be glad to part with my 40 year old museum quality masterpiece for a hundredth of that amount.

[@AndrewNeale-go9eq]

As the great artist Tony Hancock once said, your all raving mad,none of you know what your looking at 😂

[@praguhbis]

Vulgar display of wealth when actually art belongs to all. Bankrupt people here pretending to be art experts making all sorts of remarks with zero bank balance.

[@brettblaster]

Christie’s going to act like this wasn’t planned price manip when everyone stopped bidding past $300k 😂

[@beachboy13600]

I already got one

[@burneggroll]

The transcript times are out of sync.

[@jb7287]

MAJOR BREACH ! ABSOLUTELY NOBODY SHOULD BE STANDING BEHIND THE "BIDDERS REP" USING A CELLEPHONE !!! NOBODY !!

[@muqadusqavi6081]

These bids calling us Poor in all universe language's 😂😂😂😂

[@outsourcingbyrofik]

❤❤❤❤❤👌👌👌👌👌good🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

[@oocloudoo1549]

Well gawd damn

[@carmenreed2260]

What is the name of the Auctioneer?

[@정길주-w9p]

참 아름답운 예술 작퓸 입니다😊😊😊

[@beachboy13600]

ping pong?

[@nathanielalgernon975]

Man, that guy is really going to regret not bidding 9 million 2! That's a great painting there.

[@KC-lc8dx]

All a scam