The March 2022 evening Sotheby’s auctions in London sold 53 pieces for a total of ￡162 million, but yesterday’s offering was much smaller—”quality above quantity,” according to James Sevier, Sotheby’s European head of contemporary art. He notes that London has always been “the most global of Sotheby’s cities to bid in” and that, like his Christie’s contemporaries, he appears enviably unconcerned by the consequences of Brexit on the market’s high end. Yet yesterday, Asian collectors stepped up to the plate, bidding on more than half of the The Now sale’s pieces and also buying important Modern and contemporary works, including Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild for ￡20 million.