SOTHEBY’S. New York, 25/27 gennaio 2012
La vendita di “Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture” tenutasi da Sotheby’s a New York il 26 gennaio 2012 ha realizzato 62,081,477 USD. CANALETTO, LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER, FRA BARTOLOMMEO, SIMONE MARTINI e BOTTICELLI hanno archiviato oltre 4 milioni di dollari. Highlighted della vendita “Old Master Drawings” è stato il ritratto rinascimentale italiano venduto al J. Paul Getty Museum per $1.4 Milioni.
TOP TEN:
Lotto 58
aggiudicato a: $5,682,500 (£3,628,440)
Stima: $5,000,000 – 7,000,000
Canaletto, Venice, A View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo, with a Moored Man-Of-War, Gondolas and Barges, oil on canvas
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucretia, oil on panel
Lotto 22
aggiudicato a: $4,898,500 (£3,127,833)
Stima: $1,500,000 – 2,000,000 Private Fra Bartolommeo, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, oil on panel ***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 19
aggiudicato a: $4,562,500 (£2,913,288)
Stima: $1,000,000 – 1,500,000 U.S. Private Botticelli and Workshop, Madonna and Child with the Young Baptist, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata in the Distance, tondo, tempera on panel
Stima: $3,000,000 – 4,000,000 European Private Simone Martini, The Virgin Annunciate, tempera on panel, gold ground ***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 56
aggiudicato a: $3,666,500 (£2,341,166)
$1,500,000 – 2,000,000 European Private Pieter de Hooch, Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot, oil on canvas
Stima: $700,000 – 900,000 European Private Charles-Antoine Coypel, Roland and the Marriage of Angelique, oil on canvas ***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 28
aggiudicato a: $2,994,500 (£1,912,075)
Stima: $2,000,000 – 3,000,000 U.S. Private Sir Peter Paul Rubens, The Adoration of the Magi, oil on oak panel
Stima: $1,000,000 – 1,500,000 Anonymous Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, A Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Beaker Set in a Marble Niche, oil on copper
Lotto 71
aggiudicato a: $2,098,500 (£1,339,953)
Stima: $1,800,000 – 2,500,000 U.S. Private Francesco Guardi, The Ridotto in Venice with Masked Figures Conversing, oil on canvas
TOP TEN (OLD MASTER DRAWINGS):
Lotto 27
aggiudicato a: $1,398,500 (£896,187)
stima: $300,000 – 400,000 (BUYER: J. Paul Getty Museum) Attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Man, Head and Shoulders, Wearing a Cap
stima:$100,000 – 150,000 European Trade Thomas Gainsborough R.A., Study of a Lady Seated, Holding a Letter
Lotto 24
aggiudicato a: $302,500 (£193,848)
stima:$70,000 – 90,000
Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, ‘De Figuris Humanis,’ An Album Containing Sixty-Six Manuscript Pages of Text and Illustrations
Studio of Nicolas Poussin, An album Containing One Hundred and Sixty-Two Pages of Manuscript Text and Illustrations for Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura
Lotto 28
aggiudicato a: $158,500 (£101,570)
stima:$15,000 – 20,000
Attributed to Cornelis Engebrechtsz., Recto: Drapery Study; Verso: Two Diabolical Creatures
Charles-Joseph Natoire, Orpheus Charming the Animals and the Nymphs
Lotto 81
aggiudicato a: $146,500 (£93,880)
stima:$40,000 – 60,000
Hubert Robert, The Nest Robber
Giorgio Vasari, Grand Duke Cosimo de’Medici Reviving the City of Volterra
Lotto 13
aggiudicato a: $122,500 (£78,500)
stima:$20,000 – 30,000
Giovanni Alberti, Recto and Verso: Studies of a Seated Male Nude, and of his Raised Left Arm
