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Kamis, 31 Mei 2012
Minggu, 06 Mei 2012
Bouguereau paintings sell for $1.2 million in Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 19th Century Paintings Sale
Bouguereau paintings sell for $1.2 million in Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 19th Century Paintings Sale
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Selasa, 17 April 2012
Christie’s
LONDON.- 2011 marked an unprecedented year for the category of 20th Century British and Irish Art, with Christie’s realising the highest sale total for the category at the inaugural Evening Sale in November (£23.6 million), and setting the two highest prices for any work in the category when both Piccadilly Circus, London, 1960, and The Football Match, 1949, by L.S. Lowry, R.A.(1887-1976) each sold for £5.6 million, in November and May respectively. Building on this, Christie’s London sets the tone for the 2012 sales in this field with a stellar array of important works, both in the 20th Century British and Irish Art Evening Sale (45 lots), on Wednesday 23 May, and the Day Sale (161 lots), on the 24 May. The star lot of the series is an exemplary oil, Industrial Landscape: Stockport Viaduct, 1958, by Lowry. In this image: Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), Industrial Landscape; Stockport Viaduct, signed and dated ‘L.S. LOWRY 1958’ (lower left) and inscribed ‘Industrial Landscape’ (on the canvas overlap), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.). Est: £1,200,000-1,800,000/ US$1,900,000-2,700,000/ €1,400,000-2,000,000. Photo: Christies Images Ltd 2012.
Selasa, 24 Januari 2012
Selasa, 17 Januari 2012
Minggu, 18 Desember 2011
Long-lost Victorian painting by William Powell Frith nets $782,680 at Christie's auction
LONDON (AP).- A long-lost Victorian painting by William Powell Frith sold for 505,250 pounds ($782,680) at a London auction, Christie's auction house said Thursday.
"The Derby Day" is an early version of one of the era's most famous pictures — Frith's teeming, picaresque image of the crowds at an 1850s horse race, from a rich family in their carriage to gamblers, acrobats and prostitutes.
The finished painting hangs in the Tate Britain gallery in London. The 15-by-35 inch (39 centimeter by 91 centimeter) oil-on-canvas sketch sold by Christie's is Frith's first complete version of the scene.
Christie's said the sale — to an anonymous bidder over the phone — set a world record price for Frith at auction.
The painting had been expected to fetch between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds, Christie's added.
The piece had been hanging in a modest New England beach house for decades before a friend of the owner suggested it might be worth something.
Peter Brown, Christie's director of Victorian pictures, had said before the sale that the vendor, who is in his 60s and wished to remain anonymous, believes his parents bought the painting some time before World War II, when Victorian art was often dismissed as garish and sentimental.
Since the 1970s, critical opinion has changed, and works by the best Victorian artists are coveted by collectors.
Frith, one of the era's most successful painters, specialized in busy scenes of daily life, and his subjects ranged from beachgoers to railway stations to royal weddings.
"The Derby Day" was so popular when first exhibited in 1858 that a special rail was installed at the Royal Academy in London to hold back the crowds.
Sabtu, 17 Desember 2011
Victorian & British Impressionist Art - Christie's sale -15 December 2011 London
John Atkinson Grimshaw
Yew Court, Scalby
Price Realized
£79,250
($122,441)
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=23316#action=refine&intSaleID=23316&sid=cf830551-2d7b-4a08-8139-c4c8ef8e9be0
Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011
Selasa, 22 November 2011
Kamis, 17 November 2011
Selasa, 15 November 2011
Long-lost Victorian Painting in US beach house could fetch $800,000 at Christie's
["Derby Day" by William Powell Frith. The Victorian painting that hung in a family's unlocked New England beach house for half a century could fetch 500,000 pounds ($800,000) when it is sold next month, Christie's auction house said Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011. "Derby Day" is an early version of one of the era's most famous paintings William Powell Frith's teeming, picaresque image of the crowds at an 1850s horse race, from a rich family in their carriage to a prostitute and a fortune teller. AP Photo/Christie's]
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Selasa, 08 November 2011
Royal connections boost Forbes sale in Edinburgh as Victorian art remains soft
WHILE most reports in the media focused on the record price paid for a pair of Queen Victoria's undergarments, Lyon & Turnbull's sale of works from the Forbes Collection raised the more serious question of the current state of the Victorian art market.
The auction in Edinburgh on November 1 offered the entire contents of Old Battersea House, the London home of the well-known American publishing family which had been furbished by Christopher 'Kip' Forbes over three decades. The property is currently on the market with Savills at £12m after there were no takers to buy it with the contents in place.
He was once part of a quartet of collectors who helped revive the entire Victorian sector (along with Isabel Goldsmith, Lord Lloyd Webber and John Schaeffer), but the market is no longer awash with buyers like Forbes who possessed not just an all-consuming eye for 19th century British art but also large reserves of cash.
At this sale, the performance of aesthetic Victorian pictures was noticeably patchy and bidding really only took off for works with obvious Royal connections.
Overall, the 508-lot sale, which also included a range of sculpture, furniture and furnishings as well as the 250 paintings, made £2.2m hammer when as much as £4m had been expected.
To many this came as no real surprise as the cream of the Forbes assemblage had already been sold at Christie's King Street in 2003 and this sale featured some of the unsold lots as well as works which Forbes had tried to sell privately with dealers The Fine Art Society.
With a number of items carrying reserves, the selling rate was 82 per cent, although the auctioneers were hopeful of aftersales.
Certain pictures were allowed to sell at around half their estimated value, such as The Crucifixion by Henry Hawkins (c.1800-1881), which took £5500 against a £10,000-15,000 guide.
The two top lots also sold below estimate: The Princess Chained to a Tree by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98), which took £420,000 from a dealer, and Sir John Everett Millais' (1829-96) For The Squire, which went to a UK private buyer at £460,000. Both carried estimates of £500,000-800,000, whereas they had been pitched at £800,000-1.2m at the £16.9m Christie's event eight years ago.
However, it could be said these works did well even to make these sums, considering their lack of market freshness, the slightly strange composition of the Burne-Jones piece and the fact that the Millais was a late work and, to some minds, a somewhat 'chocolate box' image of a young girl.
Three of the other major works failed to get away on the day: another Millais (est: £40,000-60,000), another Burne-Jones (est: £200,000-300,000) and a Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrait (est: £80,000-120,000).
The best bidding emerged on Charles Burton Barber's (1845-94) well-known portrait of Queen Victoria with her ghillie John Brown, which was estimated at £20,000-30,000. Sold by the latter's descendants at Sotheby's in Edinburgh in 1980, where it fetched £1300, it was appearing at auction for the first time since then and drew American as well as UK interest. It finally sold at £120,000 to a private overseas buyer.
Also bringing significant interest was a study for the state portrait of George VI by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (1879-1972), which was estimated at £2000-3000. Although unfinished, it was in good condition and the Royal subject matter helped lift the bidding to a final £20,000 when it was knocked down to a London dealer.
The subject matter also helped Sir George Harvey's (1802-76) The Penny Bank to £65,000. Estimated at £30,000-40,000, the large oil on canvas sold to The Fleming Collection in London – the private collection of Scottish art founded by The Fleming Bank in 1968 which is open to the public.
Despite this mammoth event following on from the Christie's 2003 sale, there is still plenty of art remaining in the Forbes family collection, but whether more sales will be staged in the future remains to be seen.
And, in case you hadn't already heard, Queen Victoria's bloomers made £9000.
The buyer's premium was 25/20%
By Alex Capon
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/8062.aspx
Rabu, 02 November 2011
Queen Victoria's big bloomers fetch £10,000
A large pair of silk bloomers that belonged to Queen Victoria have sold for more than three times their original estimate.
Jumat, 28 Oktober 2011
Rabu, 19 Oktober 2011
Jumat, 16 September 2011
£100 Victorian oil painting sells for £185,000 at auction
A pensioner couple who bought a Victorian oil painting for less than £100 were said to be ''amazed and delighted'' yesterday when it sold at auction for £185,000.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8069668/100-Victorian-oil-painting-sells-for-185000-at-auction.html
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