NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sothebys New York, the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a strong $199,804,500, well within the overall pre-sale estimate of $167.6/229.9 million and eclipsing the total for the same sale in May 2011. The auction was 81.4% sold by lot, and saw a total of 39 works sell for over $1 million. Gustav Klimts Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) was the top lot of the sale, achieving $40,402,500 after a prolonged bidding battle (est. in excess of $25 million*), and auction records were set for Gustave Caillebotte, Tamara de Lempicka and Maxime Maufra.´I have rarely felt a room as energetic as tonight said Tobias Meyer, auctioneer of the evening sale. The art market was alive and well at Sothebys tonight said Simon Shaw, Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department in New York. We put the sale together with discipline