On Sunday, with ART SG and Singapore Art Week wrapping up, Sotheby’s held its annual modern and contemporary art sale in the city. The results, the house reported on Tuesday, were the highest total for the sale since 2023, achieving $13.1 million across 62 lots.

The sale had a 94 percent sell-through rate, with bidders Southeast Asia, the US, the UAE, Europe, South Korea, Japan, India, and China.

In a sale filled out with a mix of established Western and Asian artists, the top result went to Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres’s Weavers (1953), which sold for approximately $1.2 million with fees. The other seven-figure result was for Takashi Murakami’s Blue Signals (2017), which sold for around $1.06 million.