Christie's 20th/21st Century: Paris Evening Sale, held on October 22, 2026 with a dedicated Thinking Italian section, brought in $74.12 million (€66.01 million), landing in line with its pre-sale estimate. The house reports that 79 percent of the lots sold above their low estimates, a strong showing for the Paris sale week that has grown around the autumn fair calendar.

The evening's top lot was Lucio Fontana's 1961 Concetto spaziale, Mezzogiorno in Piazza S. Marco, which sold for $7.65 million. Works by Frank Kupka also traded well, according to the house's results. The sale marked the 25th anniversary of Thinking Italian, the curated Italian art section that has become a fixture of Christie's autumn programming, with material drawn from the Antonio Homem Sonnabend Collection, the Spencer and Marlene Hays Collection and a Signac from the Radiant Modernism group.

The most unusual subplot belonged to Gustave Loiseau. His 1902 Cliffs, Normandy first reset the artist's auction record at $862,300, erasing the $774,000 mark set at Christie's New York in November 2021. Then, later the same evening, The Needle and the Porte d'Aval (Étretat) from 1901 sold for $891,100 (€793,600), more than five times its low estimate, breaking the record a second time — a modest three percent gain that underlines how quickly records can turn over when fresh-to-market material appears.

Beyond the headline lots, the offering swept from Gustave Caillebotte to Jean Dubuffet, Rodin to Jeff Koons, and Degas to Pierre Soulages, with 20th-century design — including a Claude Lalanne 'Singerie' bed and a Carlo Mollino table — plus a Kongo nkisi figure once in the collection of Félix Fénéon adding texture to the sale. The night followed the Durand-Ruel collection sale in the same rooms, confirming that Paris has re-established itself as a destination for major single-evening auctions in late October.