LONDON — In the first serious test of the top end of the auction market since Brexit, Sotheby’s relied heavily on three works that had been looted by the Nazis and restored to the owners’ heirs in an underpowered sale Tuesday of Impressionist, modern and Surrealist art that raised 49.9 million pounds, or $64.9 million.

That total was 43 percent lower than the £87.7 million at the sale last February.

All three of the works had recently been returned to the heirs of the French property developer and art collector Gaston Lévy.

The painting that led the sale, with a price of £13.3 million, was Camille Pissarro’s 1888 Pointillist-style masterwork, “Gelée Blanche, Jeune Paysanne Faisant du Feu” showing two figures in a field on a sunlit winter morning. It had been on display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from 2000 to 2018 after having been seized by the French authorities from a private collection in 1988. The painting had been looted from Mr. Levy in 1940, during the Nazi occupation of France, according to the catalog.

The prestige of the Pissarro name and the painting’s former presence at the museum encouraged five telephone bidders to push the price for the canvas beyond its £12 million upper estimate.