Christie’s London: The Monsoon Sale, Unpacked with Josh Baer & Tim Taylor

The morning after Christie’s London evening sale of Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection and the 20/21 Evening Sale, Josh Baer sits down with London dealer Timothy Taylor to unpack the results.

They cover why collectors of a certain age are deaccessioning and starting over, Hurvin Anderson’s £4.6m hammer, and why the de Kooning and Ellsworth Kelly might have underperformed.

The conversation then turns to the UK market: the collector base Saatchi and Serota helped build, the wealth that left Britain returning for Frieze week, Tim’s 15 years of building in China, and why the real crisis in the gallery world is expenses, not sales.

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Correction: Both the de Kooning and the Ellsworth Kelly sold—£5.3m and £1.2m respectively. The remark at 11:19 that they “didn’t sell” refers to their underperformance relative to their markets, and their potential to perform better in New York.