$28 Million Bidding Battle for a Marc Chagall Masterpiece at Sotheby's Hong Kong

Deep in The Grotto at #SothebysHongKong Maison, Marc Chagall’s ‘Fleurs de printemps’ soared to $35 million HKD—well above its high estimate of $28 million HKD. Watch auctioneer Alex Branczik bring down the gavel, setting a new top price for the artist in Asia.

Chagall once said, “Painting seemed to me like a window through which I could have taken flight towards another world.” In this luminous work, he melds dream and reality, love and memory.