Bonhams Paris has set a new world auction record for Gertrude O'Brady, the twentieth-century French painter whose work formed the centrepiece of the house's Impressionist & Modern Art online sale. The auction, staged online from 25 September to 6 October 2026 through Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr at Avenue Hoche, closed with a total of €938,330, the house announced on 12 October, with 107 lots on offer. The sale was built around an important single collection of works by O'Brady (1903–1978), led by Le Phare. Bonhams reported strong international interest across the session, concentrated in particular on the O'Brady consignment, where competitive bidding lifted the artist's top result to a new all-time high. The house described the record as a world auction record for O'Brady, whose work has rarely been offered at this scale. The result arrives amid a sustained wave of rediscovery for overlooked twentieth-century women painters, a segment where Bonhams has been active across its Paris, London and New York rooms. Online-only sales have become one of the house's preferred formats for such material: they carry lower overheads, run over multiple days, and draw bids from collectors who might never set foot in a saleroom — a dynamic that suits thinly traded artists whose markets are built lot by lot. For O'Brady, the new benchmark is likely to reset expectations. Single-artist collection sales often function as price discovery for artists without a deep auction history, giving future consignors and buyers a public reference point. With the October result now on record, dealers and collectors will be watching whether further works by the painter — whose oeuvre remains little known outside specialist circles — begin to surface at other houses.