Contemporary sales have also been strong in places. Daniel Hamparsumyan, director of sales and exhibitions at Leila Heller Gallery, said they were “extremely pleased at the level of connoisseurship by British and foreign collectors attending Masterpiece,” after it sold Pablo Picasso’s 1967 pencil and wash on paper work Trois Têtes for a “mid six figure sum” to a private European collector.
July 3, 2013