Auction Results: Contemporary Day Auction, October 16, 2026 @Sotheby’s London

Auction Results: Contemporary Day Auction, October 16, 2026 @Sotheby’s London

There was only a sprinkling of photography included in the Contemporary Day auction at Sotheby’s in London last week, and the results were uneven. The top photo lot Hiroshi Sugimoto seascape print passed, and with a little softness in the sell through (the overall Buy-In rate for photography topped 45%), the numbers just couldn’t recover. Several Wolfgang Tillmans works held the line, but in the end, the Total Sale Proceeds for photography (of roughly £240K) fell well underneath the low end of ... Read on.

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