Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale realised a total of £14,370,000 / $18,652,260 / €17,114,670, a 25% increase year on year, with sell through rates of 81% by lot and 85% by value.

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945. Just four months after publicly ...