Christie's and Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sales

Christie's auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen takes bids on Picasso's The Absinthe Drinker Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Warren Allott/guardian.co.uk Klimt's Portrait of Ria Munk III, which sold for £18.8m, is presented at Christie's Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Warren Allott/guardian.co.uk A telephone bid is made at Christie's Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/guardian.co.uk Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's head of sale for impressionist and modern art, admires Monet's waterlily painting Nymphéas, 1906, painted in the artist's garden at Giverny, which failed to sell despite a final bid of £29m Photograph: Clive Gee/PA Wire/Press Association Images Photograph: Clive Gee/guardian.co.uk Bids are placed at Sotheby's on Chaïm Soutine's Le Valet de Chambre Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Carl Court/guardian.co.uk Picasso's Buste de Matador is auctioned at Sotheby's Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Carl Court/guardian.co.uk A Manet self-portrait, which sold for £22.4m, is auctioned at Sotheby's Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Carl Court/guardian.co.uk A telephone bid is placed at Sotheby's Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Carl Court/guardian.co.uk Bids are placed for Matisse's Odalisques Jouant aux Dames, which sold for £11.8m Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Carl Court/guardian.co.uk Sotheby's staff take down André Derain's Arbres à Collioure, which sold for £16.3m Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Ben Stansall/guardian.co.uk