Auction Results
Marion Maneker0May 03, 2012

Sotheby’s NY IM Day Sale = $41.7m

  1. Picasso, Tete de Jeune Garcon ($800-1.2m) $2.7m
  2. Henri Martin, La Joie de Vivre ($600-800k) $1.7m
  3. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ($300-400k) $1.3m
  4. Salvador Dalí, Nature Morte ($400-600k) $1m
  5. Barbara Hepworth, Three Squares and Circles ($180-250k) $962,500
  6. Henri Le Sidaner, Les Hortensias ($500-700k) $932,500
  7. Georges Braque, Nature Morte ($600-800k) $872,500
  8. Georges Braque, Nature Morte aux arums ($600-800k) $872,500
  9. Andre Breton, Chanson-Objet ($250-350k) $866,500
  10. Joan Miro, Painting ($180-250k) $722,500
  11. Gabriele Munter, Hof im Schnee ($250-350k) $578,500
  12. Renoir, Le Village de Cagnes Vu de la Terrase des Collettes ($300-400k) $590,500
  13. Alberto Giacometti, Rare Lampadaire ($120-180k) $530,500
  14. Alberto Giacometti, Lampadaire ($150-250k) $482,500
  15. Salvador Dali, Victory, A Song of Thanksgiving ($40-60k) $314,500
  16. Diego Giacometti, Tabouret En X ($70-90k) $266,500
  17. Max Ernst, Janus ($70-90k) $242,500
  18. Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Les Amants, 5eme Etat ($70-90k) $230,500
  19. Tsuguharu Foujita, Le Petit Chaperon Blanc ($100-150k) $206,500
  20. Lynn Chadwick, Maquette for Teddy Boy & Girl ($40-60k) $206,500
  21. Henry Moore, Draped Reclining Figure, Knee ($60-80k) $170,500
  22. Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Torse de Jeune Homme ($40-60k) $158,500
  23. Henri Lebasque, Vue de L’Esterel ($60-80k) $158,500
Auction Results
Marion Maneker1May 02, 2012

Sotheby’s NY IM Eve = $330.6m

  1. Edvard Munch, The Scream ($80m) $119.9m
  2. Picasso, Femme Assise dans un fauteuil ($20-30m) $29.2m
  3. Dalí, Printemps Necrophilique ($8-12m) $16.3m
  4. Joan Miro, Tete Humaine ($10-15m) $14.8m
  5. Constantin Brancusi, Promethe ($6-8m) $12.68m
  6. Gauguin, Cabane sous les arbes ($5-7m) $8.48m
  7. Max Ernst, Leonora in the Morning Light ($3-5m) $7.9m
  8. Picasso, Tete de Femme ($4-6m) $6.9m
  9. Leger, La Femme au Miroir ($2-3m) $4.1m
  10. Alfred Sisley, Un Noyer dans la Prairie de Thomery ($2.8-3.5m) $4m
  11. Joan Miro, Personnage Fascinnant ($2.5-3.5m) $3.78m
  12. Monet, Champ a Giverny ($1-1.5m) $2.66m
  13. Giacometti, Buste de Diego ($600-900k) $1.76m
  14. Jean Arp, Torse ($800-1.2m) $1.65m
  15. Magritte, La Vie Heureuse ($800-1.2m) $1.53m
  16. Magritte, La Voix du Sang ($600-800k) $1.3m

Auction Results
Marion Maneker0May 02, 2012

Christie’s NY IM Works on Paper = $10.15m

  1. Wassily Kandinsky, Vibrierend ($500-700k) $782,500
  2. Van Gogh, Head of Peasant Woman ($250-350k) $722,500
  3. Odilon Redon, Vision sous-marine ($200-300k) $518,500
  4. Marc Chagall, Au village ($150-200k) $290,500
  5. Edouard Manet, Le Gamin et Le Chien ($50-70k) $230,500
  6. Fernand Leger, Nature Morte au broc rouge ($120-180k) $218,500
  7. Giacometti, Portrait de Soshana ($40-60k) $116,500
  8. Joan Miro, Chien ($50-70k) $134,500
Auction Results
Marion Maneker0May 01, 2012

Christie’s NY Imp Mod Eve Sale = $117m

Christie’s worked very hard to get a 90% sell-through rate on their $117m sale. They did it by aggressively lowering estimates. At one point, auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen had $550k bid and offered that $600k would take the lot even though the bidding was far from the low estimate.

  1. Cezanne, Card Player ($15-20m) 19.1m
  2. Matisse, Les Pivoines ($8-12m) $19.1m
  3. Picasso, Le Repos ($5-7m) 9.88m
  4. Monet, Desmoiselles de Giverny ($9-12m) $9.6m
  5. Picasso, Femme assise ($2.5.-3.5m) $5.2m
  6. Henry Moore, Reclining Figure ($4-6m) $5m
  7. Georges Braque, Mandoline a la sonate $2.5-3.5m) $3.44m
  8. Pierre Bonnard, Femme endormie ($1.8-2.5m) $1.43m

General
Marion Maneker0April 05, 2012

Christie’s Compact May Imp Mod Sale: 32 Lots with $100m Estimate

 

Christie’s entire Impressionist and Modern catalogue can be seen here. This May’s sale represents a shift in strategy focusing on fewer, rarer works including the Cezanne card player watercolor, a Matisse that sits on the cover and a Monet haystacks and a strong Braque still life capitalizing on the Acquavella show’s reception and Christie’s own success with the Brody Braque two years ago.

Altogether the sale is 32 lots, a far cry from the massive 70 or more lot sales during the previous art market peak. The combined estimate is $100m.

ImpMod May 1

Museums
Marion Maneker0March 15, 2012

Here’s Something Else for Barnes Defenders to Freak Out About

The New York Times profiles the museum architects Billie Tsieh and Todd Williams fingering their decision to re-create, not replicate, the interior of the Barnes Foundation in Merion. For those who consider it a crime that the foundation is being moved to a more accessible location, the idea that Barnes’s vision might be altered in any way ought to provoke storms of outrage.

Why they’re not outraged that the art is imprisoned in Barnes’s matrix is another matter entirely. Here’s the Times on the changes Tsieh and Williams made:

In Merion, the galleries flow from one to another, meaning visitors can see not only items in the room they are in, but items in adjacent spaces.

Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien had no problem installing the new galleries in the same sequence. But they decided to “open up” the new building, by inserting a reading room, a classroom and a sunken garden court into the procession of small spaces. That means that, in some cases, the rooms won’t open directly into one another, as in the existing museum.

During a recent interview, Ms. Tsien said they worked to make sure those new rooms wouldn’t be jarring to visitors. “They were meant to be a gentle breath; we don’t want them to be a hurricane,” she said.

As for the galleries themselves, Mr. Williams said that they considered trying to enlarge them, even by just a few inches, to make them feel more spacious.

But the paintings can’t change size, Mr. Williams noted. “So if we enlarged the rooms, the relationships between the paintings” — the relationship that Albert Barnes was focused on — “would start to fall apart,” he said.

For the New Barnes, Everything Old is Old Again (New York Times)

Auction Results
Marion Maneker0February 16, 2012

Saffronart Imp-Mod Feb ’12 = $1.2m

Saffronart’s first foray into Impressionist and Modern art was tough sledding with only 44% of the 73 lots finding buyers. Half of the sale value was entirely in one painting, the van Gogh above, that sold for $697k

Auction Results
Marion Maneker0February 10, 2012

Christie’s Single-Owner Sale = £32.84m

While commentators were declaring the auction market volatile, Christie’s demonstrated the placid tone of sales in London yesterday. They held a single-owner sale of a European collection, which spanned African to Contemporary art with some notable Old Master works thrown in, of 52 lots. 43 of those sold for an 83% sell-through rate and a $47.6m total.

There were a smattering of strong prices below the top ten works, mostly for Miró, Calder, Tom Friedman and a few of the objects. Other contemporary artists performed within or just below estimates. In all, it suggests a smooth functioning market. The statistics for the week also suggest a market that is anything but volatile. Both houses registered just under £20m in Day sale lots with many upside surprises.

Auction Results
Marion Maneker0February 09, 2012

Sotheby’s London Imp-Mod Day Sale = £17m

Auction Results
Marion Maneker0February 08, 2012

The Only Unrestrained Buyer at Sotheby’s Last Night

From time to time a reader will comment on the moniker we use to identify Judd Tully. For those who need an explanation of why we call him The Master, let this virtuoso piece of research mixed with reporting serve as an answer:

Shyness or secrecy seemed to be a theme tonight, as demonstrated by a Tel Aviv-based art advisor who snapped up four pictures for two different clients. Though he declined to advertise his name, the dark-haired advisor, outfitted in a crisply pleated dress shirt and jeans, ticked off a mini-buying spree. First off was Max Ernst’s Surrealist-styled “La Comedie de la Soif” (1941), which sold for £1,6 million ($2.6 million). The same painting last sold at Sotheby’s London in June 2007, basically at the height of the last market boom, for £748,000.

Next was Paul Delvaux’s 48-by-72-inch night scene, “Les Adieux” (1964), which the advisor bought for £1.5 million ($2.3 million) (est. £700-900,000). It had been last sold at the old Sotheby’s Parke Bernet in New York in 1982, for $242,000 at the hammer. The advisor (bearing paddle number 211) also nabbed Rene Magritte’s mysterious, star-lit “Fortune Faite” (1957), a work which has been in the same private collection since the late 1960s, for £825,250 ($1.3 million) (est. £700,000- 1 million). His final purchase of the sale was Joan Miro’s mid-sized, late gestural abstraction, “Personnage” (1973), which went for £1.1 million ($1.8 million) (est. £700,000-1 million).

Star Lots Go Lonely at Sotheby’s London’s Anemic $125 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale (ArtInfo)

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