![Dmitry Lion - Untitled [Three Works]](/images/dmitry-lion_untitled-three-works_AID314736.jpg?f=grey)
Dmitry Lion
Untitled [Three Works]
Estimate: 1.200 - 1.800 USD
Price realised: 1.250 USD
Price realised: 1.250 USD
Description
Dmitry Lion
1925-1993
UNTITLED [THREE WORKS]
two signed and one also dated '73' l.r.
ink on paper, one with crayon
Lion served on the Eastern front from 1943 to 1952. It was the impact of witness accounts of the Holocaust and ‘that led him to articulate the spiritual beliefs and tragic fate of the Jewish people’ in his work, which became more symbolic and metaphorical from the mid-1960s onwards, combining Old Testament and contemporary history (‘Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change’, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1996, p.194). Large scrolls fe
Lion was born to a Jewish family in Kaluga and his father was a lawyer and human rights activist. He lived and worked in Paris for a period but died in Moscow. His work has been exhibited in Russia and America, including at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
Quantity: 3
ink on paper, one with crayon Two: 8 ¼ by 11 ¾ in., 21 by 30cm, one: 7 ½ by 11 ¾ in., 19 by 30cm
Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, Paris
1925-1993
UNTITLED [THREE WORKS]
two signed and one also dated '73' l.r.
ink on paper, one with crayon
Lion served on the Eastern front from 1943 to 1952. It was the impact of witness accounts of the Holocaust and ‘that led him to articulate the spiritual beliefs and tragic fate of the Jewish people’ in his work, which became more symbolic and metaphorical from the mid-1960s onwards, combining Old Testament and contemporary history (‘Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change’, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1996, p.194). Large scrolls fe
Lion was born to a Jewish family in Kaluga and his father was a lawyer and human rights activist. He lived and worked in Paris for a period but died in Moscow. His work has been exhibited in Russia and America, including at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
Quantity: 3
ink on paper, one with crayon Two: 8 ¼ by 11 ¾ in., 21 by 30cm, one: 7 ½ by 11 ¾ in., 19 by 30cm
Galerie Gorky Basmadjian, Paris
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Untitled Three Works by Dmitry Lion was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in October 2018. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of USD 1,200.00 – 1,800.00, the actual price achieved of USD 1,250.00 (€ 1,103.07) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Dmitry Lion - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work without title, which sold at auction in November 2016 for GBP 2,750.00 (€ 3,244.73).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Untitled Three Works von Dmitry Lion kam im Oktober 2018 bei Sothebys in New York zur Auktion. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von USD 1.200,00 – 1.800,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von USD 1.250,00 (€ 1.103,07) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Für andere Arbeiten von Dmitry Lion mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit ohne Titel beobachtet, die im November 2016 für GBP 2.750,00 (€ 3.244,73) versteigert wurde.
Dmitry Lion - Auction history
![Dmitry Lion - Untitled [Three Works]](/images/dmitry-lion_untitled-three-works_AID314736_320x320.jpg)
![Dmitry Lion - Untitled [Three Works]](/images/dmitry-lion_untitled-three-works_AID314735_320x320.jpg)
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