1. The fossilized skeleton of a triceratops horridus dinosaur that made the highest price at the Drouot auction centre in Paris when it sold for €6.65m (€5.5m/£4.7m hammer) in an auction held by Binoche et Giquello last October.
© Binoche-Giquello/Drouot
2. Leopard I from 2005 by François-Xavier Lalanne set a new record for the artist when it took €8.32m (€7.1m/£6.01m hammer) in November at Sotheby’s auction of works from the collection of Dorothée Lalanne.
Sotheby’s /Art Digital Studio
3. The highest price for an individual lot at Christie’s France last year was the €14.55m (€12.5m/£10.68m hammer) paid for this oil on canvas by René Magritte – La Vengeance – offered in the auction of the Francis Gross collection in June.
Christie’s Images Limited 2021