Dorotheum's autumn Classic Week was brought to a close on 25th October with the Old Masters auction attracting lively public participation and producing sound results and high hammer prices. The cover lot, Filippo d'Antonio Filippelli's early Renaissance painting of a Madonna with Child and St Michael and St Anthony, was successfully sold at 390,000 Euros. A Venus and Adonis from Titian's workshop or circle also raised 390,000 Euros. An early copy of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous compositions, The Madonna of the Rocks, reached far above its estimate at 338,000 Euros.

A rare, late drawing by Raphael made in preparation for the great fresco of The Battle of the Milvian Bridge in the Vatican was sold for 338,000 euros. This newly discovered and art historically important study depicting a fallen horse and rider, made one of the highest prices ever achieved in Austria for an Old Master drawing and is one of the best results for a Raphael sketch on the international market. Interest in Flemish paintings was confirmed by the excellent 312,000 Euros made by a genre painting, Man offering a child food, by Michael Sweerts and amongst other successful results, a large portrait of the Abbot of Tongerlo by Anthony van Dyck was sold for 268,375 Euros.

The autumn Classic Week began with the Furniture and Works of Art auction on 23rd October 2023. Empire-style furniture was much in demand with the highlight being a museum-quality Empire lyre secretaire, made in Vienna in the early 19th century, which sold for double its estimate at 123,500 euros.

Strong demand for works by the Stimmungsimpressionisten (Austrian mood impressionists) dominated the auction of 19th century Paintings on 24th October 2023: Tina Blau's sun-drenched Prater landscape, once owned by Emperor Franz Joseph I, sold for 117,000 Euros; Olga Wisinger-Florian's depiction of a lush wisteria-covered portico in Abbazia was bought for an outstanding 96,200 euros; a magnificent series of four paintings, A Panorama from the Mangart in the Julian Alps by leading Carinthian landscape artist and pioneer of alpinism and geographical accuracy, Markus Pernhart, sold for 208,000 Euros. Elsewhere, The young flower seller by the Polish artist Władysław Czachórski made an excellent 156,000 Euros and an art historical rediscovery, Fausto Zonaro's La Coda del Diavolo, a depiction of a Venetian girls’s dance, reached 117,000 Euros.

A particularly fierce bidding war broke out over Richard Karlovitch Zommer's painting Samarkand, before the Sher-Dor-Madrasa which was fought over by numerous international bidders. It was finally sold for many times its estimated value at 117,000 Euros.