Adolf Fassbender

White Night

Found at Sothebys, Paris
Photographs, Furniture, and Works of Art from a Parisian Flat, Avenue Montaigne, Lot 67
23. Sep - 23. Sep 2009
Estimate: 4.000 - 5.000 EUR
Price realised: 16.250 EUR
Adolf Fassbender (1884-1980)
WHITE NIGHT, NEW YORK, 1930SILVER PRINT, PRINTED 1934. MOUNTED AND FRAMED.
Tirage argentique de 1934. Avec tampon 'This Photograph was made and printed by Adolf Fassbender ©The Fassbender Foundation' au verso. Monté sous passe-partout et encadré.
Feuille 50,3 x 40, 2 cm
Vente Sotheby's Photographs, New York, 26-27 avril 1989, lot 303

Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price

When the work White Night by Adolf Fassbender was auctioned at Sothebys in Paris in September 2009, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at - in retrospect quite modest - EUR 5,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at EUR 16,250.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Adolf Fassbender; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot The White Night sold at auction in October 2000 with the realized price of USD 17,625.00 (€ 20,769.50).

Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert

Als die Arbeit White Night von Adolf Fassbender im September 2009 bei Sothebys in Paris versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – EUR 5.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit EUR 16.250,00 mehr als dreimal so hoch. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Adolf Fassbender; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit The White Night im Oktober 2000 mit dem Hammerpreis von USD 17.625,00 (€ 20.769,50).

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