An elegant pencil drawing by Amadeo Modigliani,
Femme nue, trois quarts, debout, circa 1915, reached $ 50,000, while Francis Picabia's Sans Titre (Transparence), circa 1930s, sold for $ 40,000, above a high estimate of $ 15,000.
Courbet's
Femme nue couchée (1862), which was confiscated by the Nazis from the painter and art collector Baron Ferenc Hatvany in 1944 and restituted to his heirs only in 2005, sold for $ 15.3 million, just above its $ 15 million low estimate.