SOTHEBY’S. Londra, 5 febbraio 2013
104,404,900 GBP il totale della Evening Sale di impressionisti e moderni da Sotheby’s nel 2013 (34 lotti venduti, 6 unsold). Un netto incremento rispetto ai 78,9 milioni di sterline incassati nell’analoga vendita del 2012. Il mercato continua a crescere, dunque. Nella stessa serata i Surrealisti hanno incassato 16,670,500 GBP (18 lotti venduti, 3 unsold). Portando così il totale delle vendite di una sera a 121,075,400 sterline. Il capolavoro di Picasso (lotto 12) si è fermato al minimo della mega stima (25-35 milioni GPB) e alla fine è stato aggiudicato (diritti compresi) a 28,601,250 sterline. Molto bene la pittura tedesca con ottimi prezzi per Schiele, con la realizzazione di un suo nuovo record mondiale per un’opera su carta: “Liebespaar (Selbstdarstellung mit Wally)” è stato aggiudicato a £7,881,250 ($12,400,359 / €9,165,084) a un privato asiatico. In ripresa netta anche la pittura impressionista. Un magnifico pastello di Degas (lotto 13), stimato 2.5-3,5 milioni di sterline, è stato venduto per 7,769,250 GBP.
Helena Newman, Chairman, Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art, Europe, ha commentato: “We are delighted with the outstanding results of tonight’s sale, a total for Sotheby’s London that is second only to our historic sale in 2010 of Giacometti’s Walking Man, the highest price achieved at auction at the time. Tonight’s sale – which included museum-quality works and many that have never before appeared at auction, or have been in private collections for many years – drew buyers from across the world. Bidders, both new to the market as well as seasoned buyers, reacted with great enthusiasm, in particular to the selection of Impressionist works that were considered to be the strongest offering in many years.”
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
PABLO PICASSO
1881 – 1973
FEMME ASSISE PRÈS D’UNE FENÊTRE
dated Boisgeloup 30 Octobre XXXII on a piece of the original stretcher affixed to the
stretcher
oil on canvas
146 by 114cm.
57 1/2 by 44 7/8 in.
Painted in Boisgeloup on 30th October 1932.
STIMA 25,000,000-35,000,000 GBP
PRICE REALIZED 28,601,250 GBP
PROPERTY FROM THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM, VIENNA
EGON SCHIELE
1890 – 1918
LIEBESPAAR (SELBSTDARSTELLUNG MIT WALLY)(LOVERS – SELF-PORTRAIT WITH
WALLY)
marked with the collector’s stamp Sammlung Heinrich Böhler, inscribed Schiele and
numbered No. 32 by another hand (lower left); stamped Nachlass Egon Schiele on the
reverse
gouache and pencil on paper
47.4 by 30.5cm.
18 5/8 by 12in.
Executed in 1914 or 1915.
STIMA 6,500,000-8,500,000
PRICE REALIZED 7,881,250 GBP
