London Auction Silly Season Does Relatively Well
Phillips London Brought in a Sales Total of £2,244,875, Which Topped All Other Auction House Results in London in May
Christie's May 18th London Sales Totalled £1,541,125
Rounding out the May 18th London Auctions, Dreweatt & Bloomsbury Brought in £126,988
The First of Sotheby's Auctions on May 19th, Its General Sale, Takes in £816,000
Sotheby's "The Discerning Eye: Property from the Collection of Eric Franck, Part 1" Totals £319,188
Second Gerard Levy Catalogue Sale in Paris Brings in over 660,000 Euros, Even as Major Nadar Lots Fail to Sell
The London spring auction season coincided as in the previous two years with Photo London, much to the chagrin of the exhibitors. There were three auctions on May 18th, at Phillips, Christie's and Dreweatts & Bloomsbury, and two auctions at Sotheby's on May 19th. The prices in the auction stories below all include buyer's premiums. The pound, which due to the recent U.K. elections, has been fluctuating all over the place, is currently at an interbank rate of about $1.28 to the pound sterling.
The articles below detail the results at each auction house.
Michael Diemar is editor-in-chief of The Classic, a print and digital magazine about classic photography. In August 2025, he cofounded Vintage Photo Fairs Europe, an organization focused on promoting independent tabletop fairs in Europe and spreading knowledge about classic photography in general. He is a long-time writer about the photography scene, writing extensively for several Scandinavian photography publications, as well as for the E-Photo Newsletter and I Photo Central.
London Auction Silly Season Does Relatively Well
Phillips London Brought in a Sales Total of £2,244,875, Which Topped All Other Auction House Results in London in May
Christie's May 18th London Sales Totalled £1,541,125
Rounding out the May 18th London Auctions, Dreweatt & Bloomsbury Brought in £126,988
The First of Sotheby's Auctions on May 19th, Its General Sale, Takes in £816,000
Sotheby's "The Discerning Eye: Property from the Collection of Eric Franck, Part 1" Totals £319,188
Second Gerard Levy Catalogue Sale in Paris Brings in over 660,000 Euros, Even as Major Nadar Lots Fail to Sell
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