Archibald Wakley - The Sleeping Beauty

Archibald Wakley

The Sleeping Beauty

Found at Christies, London
The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics, Lot 3
10. Dec - 10. Dec 2020
Estimate: 100.000 - 150.000 GBP
Price realised: 400.000 GBP
Description
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 10 April 1972, lot 212. | with The Maas Gallery, London, 1972, where purchased for the present collection.
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A top price for Archibald Wakley

This artwork by Archibald Wakley achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in December 2020. In the The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics auction, the work The Sleeping Beauty sold for GBP 400,000.00 (€ 446,835.65) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 150,000.00. This high result makes The Sleeping Beauty the most expensive artwork by Archibald Wakley that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Archibald Wakley

Dieses Kunstwerk von Archibald Wakley erzielte im Dezember 2020 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion The Joe Setton Collection: from Pre-Raphaelites to Last Romantics wurde die Arbeit The Sleeping Beauty für GBP 400.000,00 (€ 446.835,65) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 150.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht The Sleeping Beauty zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Archibald Wakley, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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