Of the 68 lots on offer, 60 or 88% were sold, with the top lot, Vincent van Gogh’s Laboureur dans un champ, hammered down at $72m (£55m) against a $50m estimate.
Fernand Leger's Contraste de formes sold at a hammer price of $62m (£47m), which was $70m including premium, setting an auction record for the artist.
Christie’s said the sale achieved six auction records and was the second-highest total ever for a “various-owner sale” of Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house.
This René Magritte (1898-1967) ‘L’empire des lumières’ oil on canvas made an auction record for the artist at a premium inclusive $20.5m at Christie's. It was painted in Brussels, 1949.
The evening sale took a premium-inclusive total of $479.3m (£366.2m), above the pre-sale estimate of $360m.
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern day sales take place today, followed by November 15’s Post-War and Contemporary art evening sales.
