Last year, the October sales held in Paris to coincide with Art Basel’s Paris Plus art fair were an unexpected success. Sotheby’s was able to post strong numbers for works by René Magritte, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Soulages, and Frantisek Kupka in their Modern sale, while the single-owner Pauline Karpidas sale of the contents of her Hydra home produced a rousing €35.5 million. Christie’s also did quite well: It sold Francois-Xavier Lalanne’s Rhinocretaire I for €18.3 million, a record price for the artist. The auction house also sold works from the collection of Anne and Wolfgang Titze for €27.7 million, and the La Colombe d’Or hotel’s Joan Miró for €20.7 million.