Alfred Wallis
Schooner and Cliffs
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP
Price realised: 69.300 GBP
Price realised: 69.300 GBP
Description
Alfred Wallis
1855 - 1942
Schooner and Cliffs
signed A WALLIS (lower right)
oil and pencil on card
unframed: 41 by 43cm.; 16 by 17in.
framed: 56.5 by 59.5cm.; 22½ by 23½in.
Executed circa 1935-40.
We are grateful to Robert Jones for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Collection of Mrs Lucy Wertheim | Rutland Gallery, London, where acquired by Herbert Spencer RDI after the Tate exhibition in 1968 and thence by family descent
1855 - 1942
Schooner and Cliffs
signed A WALLIS (lower right)
oil and pencil on card
unframed: 41 by 43cm.; 16 by 17in.
framed: 56.5 by 59.5cm.; 22½ by 23½in.
Executed circa 1935-40.
We are grateful to Robert Jones for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Collection of Mrs Lucy Wertheim | Rutland Gallery, London, where acquired by Herbert Spencer RDI after the Tate exhibition in 1968 and thence by family descent
Upper estimate price exceeded by 39 %.
The work Schooner and Cliffs by Alfred Wallis was auctioned at Sothebys in London in June 2021. It achieved a price of GBP 69,300.00 (€ 80,752.52), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 39%. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Alfred Wallis - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work St Ives Bay With Godrevy, which sold at auction in May 2012 for GBP 145,250.00 (€ 180,975.11).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 39 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Schooner and Cliffs von Alfred Wallis kam im Juni 2021 bei Sothebys in London zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 69.300,00 (€ 80.752,52) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 39%. Für andere Arbeiten von Alfred Wallis mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit St Ives Bay With Godrevy beobachtet, die im Mai 2012 für GBP 145.250,00 (€ 180.975,11) versteigert wurde.
Alfred Wallis - Auction history
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