Claude Flight
Swimming: The Start of the Race
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 GBP
Price realised: 131.250 GBP
Price realised: 131.250 GBP
Description
signed 'CLAUDE FLIGHT' (lower left), inscribed 'SWIMMING/THE START OF THE RACE' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
18 x 23 ¾ in. (45.7 x 60.4 cm.)
with Michael Parkin Fine Art, London. | Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1987, lot 236. | with Trinity House Paintings, London, where purchased by the present owner in March 2018.
oil on canvas
18 x 23 ¾ in. (45.7 x 60.4 cm.)
with Michael Parkin Fine Art, London. | Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1987, lot 236. | with Trinity House Paintings, London, where purchased by the present owner in March 2018.
A top price for Claude Flight
This artwork by Claude Flight achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in January 2020. In the Modern British Art Day Sale auction, the work Swimming: The Start of the Race sold for GBP 131,250.00 (€ 156,120.41) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 50,000.00. This high result makes Swimming: The Start of the Race the most expensive artwork by Claude Flight that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Claude Flight
Dieses Kunstwerk von Claude Flight erzielte im Januar 2020 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Modern British Art Day Sale wurde die Arbeit Swimming: The Start of the Race für GBP 131.250,00 (€ 156.120,41) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 50.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Swimming: The Start of the Race zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Claude Flight, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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