CHRISTIE’S. Londra, 3 luglio 2007
La vendita che si è tenuta a Londra da Christie’s ha quasi raddoppiato la stima iniziale totalizzando ben £ 3,832,488 (€ 5,664,417) con 500 lotti venduti su 568 offerti. Top lot dell’asta il numero 435, una lettera d’amore di Napoleone Bonaparte (1769-1821) a Josephine, la sua futura moglie, venduta per £ 276,000 (world record price per una lettera di Napoleone), quintuplicando la sua stima iniziale (£30,000-50,000).
elenco delle migliori aggiudicazioni:
Lotto 435
Venduto per: £276,000 $556,692 €407,928
Stima: £30,000-50,000
NAPOLEON I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French. Autograph letter signed (‘B[ona]P[arte]’)
to Josephine de Beauharnais, n.p. [Paris], ‘9 heures du matin’ [1795/6]
Lotto 529
Venduto per: £204,000 $411,468 €301,512
Stima: £30,000-50,000
NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). Autograph manuscript, n.d., notes of differing
classical views on gravity and the structure of the universe
Lotto 247
Venduto per: £156,000 $314,652 €230,568
Stima: £12,000-18,000
MALEVICH, Kazimir Severinovich (1878-1933). Autograph manuscript with diagrams
Lotto 142
Venduto per: £144,000 $290,448 €212,832
Stima: £30,000-50,00
PUSHKIN, Alexandr Sergeyevich (1799-1837). Autograph letter signed (‘P’), in Russian,
to Baron E. Rosen (editor of the almanac Altsiona
Lotto 153
Venduto per: £120,000 $242,040 €177,360
Stima: £40,000-60,000
RIMBAUD, Jean Nicolas Arthur (1854-1891). Autograph manuscript signed
(‘A. Rimbaud’) of a sonnet, ‘Vénus Anadyomène’
Lotto 54
Venduto per: £114,000 $229,938 €168,492
Stima: £80,000-120,000
DONNE, John (1572-1631). Autograph letter signed (‘J. Donne’) to Lady Kingsmill
Bridget] (née White), ‘At my poore house at S: Pauls’, 26 October 1624
Lotto 55
Venduto per: £102,000 $205,734 €150,756
Stima: £6,000-8,000
DOSTOEVSKII, Fedor Mikhailovich (1821-1881). Autograph letter signed (‘Th Dostoevskii’)
to Nikolai Petrovich [Vagner], [St Petersburg], 7 January [18]76
Lotto 341
Venduto per: £84,000 $169,428 €124,152
Stima: £15,000-20,000
CALVIN, Jean (1509-1564). Autograph document signed, a deposition to the la Réforme, Geneva
authorities of Geneva on the circumstances of the attempted suicide of Jean
Vachat, n.p. [Geneva], 23 January 1545, in French
Lotto 356
Venduto per: £84,000 $169,428 €124,152
Stima: £10,000-15,000
CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Autograph letter signed (‘O. Cromwell’) to Richard Mayor
(‘Deere Brother’, the father-in-law of his son, Richard), Alnwick, 17 June 1650
Lotto 85
Venduto per: £78,000 $157,326 €115,284
Stima: £25,000-35,000
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). Autograph letter (signed ‘Yours in Christian Science,
Mother Eddy’) to Ezra Pound, Burguete, Spain
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