David Wojnarowicz
Something from Sleep IV (Dream)
Estimate: 180.000 - 250.000 USD
Price realised: 500.000 USD
Price realised: 500.000 USD
Description
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
Something from Sleep IV (Dream)
gelatin silver print, acrylic and printed paper collage on Masonite mounted on panel
16 x 20 ½ in. (40.6 x 52.1 cm.)
Executed in 1988-1989.
Something from Sleep IV (Dream)
gelatin silver print, acrylic and printed paper collage on Masonite mounted on panel
16 x 20 ½ in. (40.6 x 52.1 cm.)
Executed in 1988-1989.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 100 %.
This artwork by David Wojnarowicz achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in November 2021. In the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale auction, the work Something from Sleep IV (Dream) sold for USD 500,000.00 (€ 442,987.51) - well above the upper estimate of USD 250,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by David Wojnarowicz - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Earth, Wind, Fire And Water, which sold at auction in November 2018 for USD 1,515,000.00 (€ 1,337,984.63).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 100 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von David Wojnarowicz erzielte im November 2021 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale wurde die Arbeit Something from Sleep IV (Dream) für USD 500.000,00 (€ 442.987,51) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 250.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von David Wojnarowicz mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Earth, Wind, Fire And Water beobachtet, die im November 2018 für USD 1.515.000,00 (€ 1.337.984,63) versteigert wurde.
David Wojnarowicz - Auction history
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