Christie's sold 53 works from the Zabludowicz Collection on King Street for £15.4 million, led by Philip Guston's Mirror Head at £3.9 million.
Christie’s sold 53 works from the Zabludowicz Collection at Christie’s King Street in St James’s on Thursday 25 June 2026, for £15.4 million. The single-owner evening was part of its London Summer Season.
Anita and Poju Zabludowicz founded the collection in 1994, as the Young British Artists were changing the London scene, and they bought early. Many of the works reached King Street almost fresh to the auction market.
In 2007 the couple opened a non-profit project space in north London. It was known for showing artists at turning points in their careers, and it closed in 2023.
This was the first time any part of the collection had come to public auction. The evening offered roughly one per cent of it, and a further 44 lots ran online until 30 June.
Philip Guston’s Mirror Head of 1977 led at £3.9 million against an estimate of £3.5 million to £5.5 million. Richard Prince’s Untitled (Cowboy) made £1.5 million, and Damien Hirst’s butterfly painting I Love You made £762,000.
Some 89 per cent of the lots sold. Rose Wylie’s Sailing Boat made £292,100, an auction record for the artist, and Anj Smith and Jakub Julian Ziółkowski also set records.