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- Estimate
- €40,000–€60,000 hammer ≈ $47,268–$70,902
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Art Contemporain - Vente du Jour, Paris · 6 December 2017
- Dimensions
- 120 x 89 x 50 cm. (47 ¼ x 35 x 19 5/8 in.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3864072
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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César, L'aile. Christie's, 6 Dec 2017, lot 143. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3864072.
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César, L'aile. Christie's, 6 Dec 2017, lot 143. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3864072.
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From the same sale Art Contemporain - Vente du Jour · Dec 2017
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empreintes de pinceau n°50 répétées à intervalles régulières (30 cm.) | Niele Toroni | €50,000–€70,000 | |
| Sans titre | Pierrette Bloch | €3,000–€5,000 | |
| Alignment #2 | Brent Wadden | €40,000–€60,000 | |
| Sans titre | Albert Oehlen | €10,000–€15,000 | |
| Small Pink | Sue Williams | €25,000–€35,000 | |
| Abstraktes Bild (P1) | Gerhard Richter | €7,000–€10,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| César | Pouce | $83,361 | Sotheby's, May 2025 | |
| César | Compression | Sotheby's, Oct 2022 | ||
| César | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Dec 2021 | ||
| César | La grande aile 1991 | Bonhams, Jun 2023 | ||
| César | L'Homme de Villetaneuse | Sotheby's, Dec 2022 | ||
| César | Petite nana au sexe feminin | Lempertz, Dec 2021 | ||
| César | nu de la belle de mai | Sotheby's, Dec 2019 | ||
| César | Grand Valentin | Christie's, Oct 2019 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.