Results of the auction of old masters Sotheby's exceeded all expectations
Top auction lots are works by Anthony van Dyck and Hendrick Goltzius
Yesterday, January 28, in New York, the trades of old masters, arranged the auction house Sotheby's. The results are even quite good: 53.4 million dollars in Estimé 22-40 million. Top lot was a picturesque sketch depicting a bearded man, made Anthony van Dyck (Anthony van Dyck). He went for 7.25 million dollars (hereinafter, all prices include BP. - AI ) in assessing 5-7 million.
the second place - painting "Jupiter and Antiope" (1612) painted by the artist-mannerist Hendrick Goltzius (Hendrick Goltzius), which brought 6.8 million dollars in Estimé 8.12 million. This is the largest sum of all that has ever been paid for works of the painter (previous record was 1.5 million dollars). Before the auction there were rumors that the picture of his eye a big fan of the old masters, Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), but eventually went to work to the buyer from Europe.
bidding was to appear and "Portrait of a young woman in a black hat" by Rembrandt, painted in 1632, but at the last moment it was removed from the auction. Experts estimate it at 8.12 million dollars. The previous owner bought the work at Sotheby's in January 2007, paying him $ 9 million (preliminary estimate was 3-4 million).
« Beautiful Ferroneru ", previously seen as a creation of Leonardo da Vinci, and now attributed to his successor , sold for 1.5 million dollars in Estimé 300-500 thousand . This is not only a significant excess of the preliminary assessment. "Portrait of Hans Jacob Fugger", created in the XVII century Christoph Amberger (Christoph Amberger), received the estimate 200-300 thousand dollars, and went for entire 1.2 million. Work comes from the collection of the Art Museum district of Los Angeles (LACMA), which auctioned ten works. They have brought 2.7 million dollars, with an upper Estimé 1,3 million.
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