SOTHEBY’S. New York, 26/27 gennaio 2011
Le aste dedicate ai dipinti antichi hanno totalizzato $112,542,797, il secondo totale più alto mai realizzato da sotheby’s a New York nelle vendite di Old Master. Sedici i nuovi record per artista stabiliti.
La vendita del 26 gennaio di “Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture” ha totalizzato $90,626,878: il capolavoro di Tiziano “A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria” ha realizzato un nuovo record mondiale, è stato agggiudicato a $16.9 milioni a un collezionista privato europeo. “Property from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp” ha realizzato $1,628,727 (st. $800,000/1.2 milioni). Durante la vendita di “Old Master Drawings” “Jupiter and Juno” di Perino del Vaga è stato venduto al Metropolitan Museum of Art per $782,500. La Evening Sale di “Important Old Master & 19th Century Paintings from the Collection of Jacob Elie Safra” ha archiviato sette nuovi record per artista. La settimana si è chiusa con la vendita di “Old Master & 19th Century European Art” che ha realizzato $3,357,504 (st. $2.8/4.1 milioni).
TOP TEN DELLA VENDITA: Sale N08712 Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture (27 gennaio 2011):
Lotto 156
aggiudicato a: $16,882,500 (£10,600,590)
stima: $15,000,000 – 20,000,000 European Private Collector
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria,
circa 1560
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 183
aggiudicato a: $7,026,500 (£4,411,968)
stima: $1,500,000 – 2,000,000 Carol Strone Art Advisory
Claude-Joseph Vernet, A Grand View of the Sea Shore Enriched with Buildings, Shipping and Figures, 1776
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 177
aggiudicato a: $6,242,500 (£3,919,691)
stima: $800,000 – 1,200,000 Anonymous
Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael, Adam and Eve, circa 1610-1615
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 151
aggiudicato a: $5,346,500 (£3,357,089)
stima: $2,000,000 – 3,000,000 European Private Collector
Gerrit Dou, An Elderly Woman, Seated by a Window at her Spinning Wheel, Eating Porridge, circa 1631-5
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 171
aggiudicato a: $4,562,500 (£2,864,812)
stima: $2,000,000 – 3,000,000 European Private Collector
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Return from the Kermesse
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 141
aggiudicato a: $2,994,500 (£1,880,259)
stima: $1,200,000 – 1,800,000 European Private Collector
Willem Willemsz van der Vliet, A Scholar in his Study with Figures with Masks, possibly an Allegory, 1627
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 137
aggiudicato a: $2,770,500 (£1,739,608)
stima: $700,000 – 900,000 Anonymous
Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, called Giampietrino, The Virgin and Child by a Window: “The Madonna of the Cherries,” circa 1510-1530
Lotto 187
aggiudicato a: $2,434,500 (£1,528,632)
stima: $1,000,000 – 1,500,000 Anonymous
Claude-Joseph Vernet, A Mediterranean Harbor at Sunset with Fisherfolk at the Water’s Edge, a Lighthouse and a Man of War
at Anchor in the Bay, 1761
Lotto 197
aggiudicato a: $2,210,500 (£1,387,982)
stima: $1,500,000 – 2,000,000 American Private Collector
Luis Meléndez, Still Life with Tomatoes a Bowl of Aubergines and Onions
Lotto 113
aggiudicato a: $2,098,500 (£1,317,657)
stima: $300,000 – 400,000 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
