Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale made £106.9 million on King Street during Frieze week 2025, led by Peter Doig's Ski Jacket.
Christie’s 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale made £106.9 million at Christie’s King Street in St James’s on Wednesday 15 October 2025, during Frieze week.
James Christie founded the house in 1766, and it has sold from King Street since 1823. Its October series is where the season’s major modern pictures are tested in a single week, and day sales followed on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October.
The total was 30 per cent up on 2024 and the highest for a Frieze week evening sale at Christie’s in seven years. Of the 60 lots offered, 67 per cent were fresh to auction and 92 per cent sold.
Peter Doig’s Ski Jacket, painted in 1994, led at £14,270,000 against an estimate of £6,000,000 to £8,000,000. Six buyers bid for nearly 13 minutes. It came from the Danish collector Ole Faarup, whose lots raised £27,318,500 for his foundation.
Doig’s Country Rock followed at £9,210,000, and Lucian Freud’s Self-portrait Fragment made £7,600,000. Paula Rego’s Dancing Ostriches from Walt Disney’s Fantasia set a world auction record for the artist at £3,466,000.
Doig’s solo exhibition House of Music was on view at the Serpentine Galleries that week.