A number of French auction houses will be holding sales of Modern and Contemporary art to coincide with FIAC, the annual Paris fair devoted to Contemporary art, which takes place this year from October 21-24.
Among them is Sotheby’s Paris which will be holding its Paris Art Week run of auctions at this time. These include its Modernités auction, taking place on October 26. Headlining this sale is L’Art de la Conversation, an oil on canvas by René Magritte from 1950 which is guided at €9m-12m – the highest-ever estimate for a single lot at Sotheby’s in France.