Auction of rare works of George O'keeffe and artists of its circle, and brought Sotheby's more than $ 17 million
ARTinvestment.RU   11 марта 2020

Top-лотами expected steel sculpture and ceramic artist, first appeared on the auction

selling a collection of 97 lots of ceramics, sculptures, letters and other items related to personality and creativity of the most expensive artist in the world and authors in her circle, surpassed the boldest forecasts. Sold almost 90 % of the lots catalog, and the total amount of revenue in the third exceeded the average total estimate of all lots.

Top-лотом became pictorial composition beginning 1930-х years Nature forms — Gaspé, sold, exceeding the upper estimate, for $6.8 million

the Leader in the number of rates and prevalence rates above the expected estimate was sculpture and ceramics On@arocef. Abstract sculpture of 1946, which is a delicate spiral of white color, was sold for $668 thousand from the start at $200 thousand, a unique collection of six ceramic vessels with an estimate of $8-15 thousand sold at prices ranging from $30 to $60 thousand for each subject.

Twice or more higher than the estimate and sold personal belongings of the artist. So, it black-белое tailored dress was sold for $25 thousand, with a starting price of $10 thousand.

Note that for some items the bidders to bargain was not possible: a selection of documents, manuscripts, photographs and books from the library About@arocef was purchased by Yale University, before the market open.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: artnews.com