Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Design For The Front And First Page Of The Savoy Or Woman Fondling Grapes
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 EUR
Price realised: 200.000 EUR
Price realised: 200.000 EUR
Description
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1872 - 1898
DESIGN FOR THE FRONT AND FIRST PAGE OF THE SAVOY OR WOMAN FONDLING GRAPES
Pen and ink over pencil on paper
Signed lower left in ink AUBREY BEARDSLEY
23,8 x 17,8 cm ; 9 1/4 by 7in.
Leonard Smithers ; | John Lane (1907) ; | Mrs Helen Payne Whitney ; | John Hay Whitney (by descent) ; | Betsey Cushing Whitney (bequeathed) ; | Greentree Foundation (bequeathed) ; | Sale, Whitney Collection, Sotheby's New York, May 18th, 2004, lot 87 ; | Jacques Grange Collection, Paris (purchased from the above)
1872 - 1898
DESIGN FOR THE FRONT AND FIRST PAGE OF THE SAVOY OR WOMAN FONDLING GRAPES
Pen and ink over pencil on paper
Signed lower left in ink AUBREY BEARDSLEY
23,8 x 17,8 cm ; 9 1/4 by 7in.
Leonard Smithers ; | John Lane (1907) ; | Mrs Helen Payne Whitney ; | John Hay Whitney (by descent) ; | Betsey Cushing Whitney (bequeathed) ; | Greentree Foundation (bequeathed) ; | Sale, Whitney Collection, Sotheby's New York, May 18th, 2004, lot 87 ; | Jacques Grange Collection, Paris (purchased from the above)
A top price for Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
This artwork by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in Paris in November 2017. In the Jacques Grange | Collectionneur auction, the work Design For The Front And First Page Of The Savoy Or Woman Fondling Grapes sold for EUR 200,000.00 - well above the upper estimate of EUR 80,000.00. This high result makes Design For The Front And First Page Of The Savoy Or Woman Fondling Grapes the most expensive artwork by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Dieses Kunstwerk von Aubrey Vincent Beardsley erzielte im November 2017 bei Sothebys in Paris einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Jacques Grange | Collectionneur wurde die Arbeit Design For The Front And First Page Of The Savoy Or Woman Fondling Grapes für EUR 200.000,00 versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von EUR 80.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Design For The Front And First Page Of The Savoy Or Woman Fondling Grapes zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley - Auction history
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