2008 Auction History

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

All results in BOLD

An early four-leaf panorama of Philadelphia is estimated $ 250 K on December 5 at Christie's New York, sale 2059, lot 283. (SOLD 300 K$ including fees)

It is at Swann in New York on December 17: an example of La Goulue by Toulouse-Lautrec ($ 250 K). (SOLD 250 K$ before fees)

A large Crucifixion by Rembrandt is for sale at Christie's in London on December 2 (350 K £, sale 7644, Lot 49). (SOLD 420 K£ including fees).

I had just reminded in an article of the Vampires by Munch, and one of them is coming, at Sotheby's in London on October 2! (300 K£, lot 81). (SOLD 325 K£ including fees).

At Sotheby's in New York on October 30 and 31, there are the Scream by Munch ($ 2 million) (UNSOLD) and a portfolio Marilyn Monroe by Warhol ($ 1 million). (SOLD 1 M$ including fees)

A copy of a masterpiece of Utamaro, Reflective Love, is worth $ 1 million at Christie's in New York on September 18. (UNSOLD).

The collection of 15 prints with their frontispiece of the Carceri d'invenzione, Roma by Piranesi is estimated at 45 K €. It is the lot 2048 of the sale by Galateau at Lascaux on August 28. (likely UNSOLD).

The Knight, Death and Devil, of course by Dürer, 24 x 18 cm, is estimated at $ 15 K by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on September 7. (SOLD 66 K$ including fees).

A poster in Italian on chocolate by Cappiello (272x195 cm) is estimated at 30 K$ by Swann Auction Galleries in New York on August 6 (Lot 312). (UNSOLD).

On June 6 at Galerie Kornfeld in Bern, a lithograph by Kirchner is highlighted (800 KCHF). (SOLD 980 KCHF before fees).

On June 6, in Berne, Kornfeld Gallery devotes 100 numbers to lithographs and bronzes of Daumier. (SOLD, before fees : 18 KCHF la Rue Transnonain ; 68 KCHF a lithographic stone, 27x33x3 cm ; 85 KCHF a bronze self-portrait 73 cm high).

After having discovered on the site of Blomqvist that one operates the wanted selection by putting the required name in the box Fritekst søk, I can ensure you that this house of Oslo will offer for sale on May 14 several of major works of Munch: Vampyr (3 MKkr, lot 77), (SOLD 5.2 Mkr), a Madonna (without the foetus skeleton, 800 Kkr, lot 69), (SOLD 2.1 Mkr), Kyss (550 Kkr, lot 82), (SOLD 1.55 Mkr) and, in the stripped style which has just made the success of Angst at Sotheby', on May 1, To mennesker (1,8 Mkr, lot 73). (SOLD 2 Mkr).
(Results probably do not include fees).

For those which could not treat to the original (the most expensive work in the world of a contemporary artist), here is an engraving of For the Love of God, Believe by Hirst. Edited in 1700 specimens, it is worth 2.2 K$ at Santa Monica Auctions on June 1 (lot 155).

Sotheby's New York ad for May 1 and 2 a Madonna by Munch (600 K$), (SOLD 680 K$ including fees) (SOLD 890 K$ including fees : Angst, by Munch) and a portrait of Mary Cassatt by Degas (400 K$), (SOLD 421 K$ including fees), afterwards on May 9 a Cranach inspired woman by Picasso (275 K$) (SOLD 660 K$ including fees) and on May 15, in the sale of Modern Art, a set of 18 lithographs of Barnett Newman (1.8 M$). (SOLD 2 M$ including fees).
And again, in the first of these sales, a complete Campbell's Soup I by Warhol (250 K$). (SOLD 280 K$ including fees).

An original and sympathetic theme: posters of artists and galleries, by Delorme and Collin du Bocage on March 28 at Drouot. (no significant bid).

In the sale of Cornette de Saint-Cyr at Drouot Montaigne on April 5, a complete Campbell's Soup portfolio of 1968 by Warhol (Lot 50, each sheet 89x58 cm, 150 K €). (SOLD 150 K€ before fees). This portfolio comes from the same series of 250 as the lot 343 in Christie's sale on April 2, and one year prior to lot 344.

Three days of sales at Christie's London:
On 1 April, modern pieces "for every budget."
On 2 April, the sale of the most important lots: a wide selection of Rembrandt with a collection of 85 prints published by a successor of Basan (Lot 95, £ 80 K), (UNSOLD), some Dürers, (maximum 29 K£), a Picasso print of Saltimbanques 120 K£ (Lot 220), (SOLD 168 K£), a Boîte of 1958 by Duchamp estimated £ 20 K (Lot 155) (SOLD 104 K£) that it will be interesting to compare with those announced by Piasa (see previous column), a lithograph by Munch (Lot 207, £ 100 K ), (SOLD 204 K£), a portfolio Anatomy by Basquiat (Lot 275, £ 80 K). (SOLD 90 K£). Also complete sets of 10 prints by Warhol (Campbell's Soup, lots 343 and 344, 70 and 80 K £ (both UNSOLD) ; Electric Chairs, lot 345, £ 70 K (UNSOLD) ; Mick Jagger, lot 350, £ 180 K (UNSOLD) or 4 prints (Muhammad Ali, Lot 351, £ 60 K). (SOLD 72 K£).
On April 3, works published by The Paragon Press including three portfolios by Damien Hirst (30, 30 and 25 K £). (SOLD 72, 54 and 53 K£).
Above results include fees.

At Sotheby's on 18/19 January, I viewed at number 123 an interesting engraving by Paul Revere, The bloody massacre at 150 K$ (SOLD 229 K$ including premium).