A metà settembre era uscita la notizia che il Brooklyn Museum di New York aveva affidato 12 opere della sua collezione permanente a Christie’s per trovare fondi per il mantenimento della sua collezione. La casa d’aste ne ha vendute 9.
Erano distribuite tra due aste, entrambe esitate il 15 ottobre: quella di “European Art Part I” che ha fatto 6,639,250 e “Old Master” che ha realizzato 23,602,750 dollari, rispetto a una stima pre asta di 19.3-29 milioni.
Le nove opere del museo insieme hanno fatto $ 6,6 milioni (per la precisione, 6.590.500). Più del doppio della stima totale di prevendita $ 2,3 milioni – $ 3,5 milioni. Nel dettaglio le 6 opere venduta nell’asta Old Master hanno fatto 5.436.250 dollari, mentre le quattro del catalogo “European Art” 1.154.250 dollari.
Spiccano Lucas Cranach il Vecchio, Gustave Courbet e Camille Corot. Altre opere del Brooklyn Museum sono nei cataloghi delle vendite online, dall’1 al 20 ottobre, sempre parte della “Classic Week” che non si è ancora conclusa.
Ecco le 9 opere vendute
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Old Masters | New York | 15 October 2020
Lucas Cranach I (Kronach 1472-1553 Weimar)
Lucretia
signed with the artist’s winged-serpent device (lower right)
oil on panel, transferred to board
24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
A. Augustus Healy, by whom bequeathed in 1921 to
The Brooklyn Museum, New York (inv. no. 21.142).
Price realised USD 5,070,000
Estimate
USD 1,200,000 – USD 1,800,000
Attributed to Lorenzo Costa (Ferrara 1460-1535 Mantua)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust length, in a green doublet, a red and gold coat and a red beretta
signed with the letter ‘C’ (lower left, on the ledge)
tempera and oil on panel, transferred to board
18 7/8 x 13 in. (47.9 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
Comte Leon Mniszech; his sale, Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 April 1902, lot 32, as Florentine School, 15th century.
George Donaldson, London.
Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman, Long Island, by April 1935 and bequeathed in 1954 to
The Brooklyn Museum, New York (inv. no. 54.193).
Price realised USD 137,500
Estimate USD 60,000 – USD 80,000
Donato de’ Bardi (Active in Lombardy and Liguria 1426–1450/51)
Saint Jerome
tempera, oil and gold on panel
45 x 18 5/8 in. (114.2 x 47.2 cm.)
Provenance
A. August Healy (1850-1921), New York, by 1917 and by whom bequeathed in 1921 to The Brooklyn Museum, New York (inv. no. 21.138).
Price realised USD 118,750
Estimate USD 80,000 – USD 120,000
Giovanni di Marco, called Giovanni dal Ponte (Florence 1385-1437/8)
The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Barbara, Dominic, John the Baptist and Anthony Abbot
inscribed ‘ECCE·AG(…)S·(…)·QUI·TOLI’ lower left, on the banderole and ‘AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS TECO’ lower edge, on the frame
tempera and gold on panel, shaped top, in an engaged frame
32 3/8 x 19 ¼ in. (82.1 x 49 cm.)
Provenance
Marchese Rosselli Del Turco collection, Florence.
Leo Healy, Brooklyn, from whom acquired on 26 February 1925 by The Brooklyn Museum, New York (inv. no. 25.53).
Price realised USD 75,000
Estimate USD 70,000 – USD 100,000
Francesco Botticini (Florence 1446-1498)
Saints Anne and Joachim
tempera and gold on panel, unframed, a fragment
8 ½ x 5 3/8 in. (21.6 x 13.5 cm.)
Provenance
William H. Herriman (1829-1918), Rome, and by whom bequeathed in 1921 to
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (inv. no. 21.466).
Price realised USD 35,000
Estimate USD 30,000 – USD 50,000
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European Art Part I | New York | 15 October 2020
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)
Bords de la Loue avec rochers à gauche
signed and dated ‘G Courbet./68’ (lower right)
oil on canvas 27 7/8 x 42 ¼ in. (70.8 x 107.3 cm.)
Price realised USD 798,000
Estimate USD 400,000 – USD 600,000
Henrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch, 1831-1915)
Marine
signed and dated ‘H W Mesdag 1890’ (lower right)
oil on canvas 27 ¼ x 35 ¼ in. (69.2 x 89.5 cm.)
Price realised USD 175,000
Estimate USD 120,000 – USD 180,000
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
Italienne debout tenant une cruche
stamped ‘VENTE/COROT’ (lower left)
oil on canvas on panel
12 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (32.1 x 23.2 cm.)
Price realised USD 125,000
Estimate USD 200,000 – USD 300,000
Philip Wilson Steer, O.M. (British, 1860-1942)
Under the Trees
signed and dated ‘P W Steer 1908’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm.)
Price realised USD 56,250
Estimate USD 60,000 – USD 80,000
