1. Hockney's prize onions
Estimate £70,000–£100,000 Sold £189,000
The sale of the Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection yielded some 194 classy lots at Christie’s in June. Among the items up for auction were drawings by Paul César Helleu and Pablo Picasso, a sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, and a variety of Elizabeth Gage jewellery pieces. The couple – she an American model and former fashion and London editor for American ; he a financier and scion of the famous Hambro banking family