Édouard Traviès
Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-bille
Estimate: 12.000 - 18.000 USD
Price realised: 32.500 USD
Price realised: 32.500 USD
Description
all signed and dated 'Edouard Traviés p.t' and 'Edouard Traviés p.xit' and dated between 1833 and 1836
pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, bodycolor, framing lines in pencil
each approximately 6 ¾ x 4 in. (17 x 10 cm.)
Marcel Jeanson; Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 June 1988, lots 303, 308, 335, 327, 299, 331, 341, 323, 291, and 326.
pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, bodycolor, framing lines in pencil
each approximately 6 ¾ x 4 in. (17 x 10 cm.)
Marcel Jeanson; Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 June 1988, lots 303, 308, 335, 327, 299, 331, 341, 323, 291, and 326.
A top price for Edouard Traviès
This artwork by Edouard Traviès achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in January 2017. In the Old Master Drawings auction, the work Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-bille sold for USD 32,500.00 (€ 30,109.32) - well above the upper estimate of USD 18,0 This high result makes Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-bille the most expensive artwork by Edouard Traviès that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Edouard Traviès
Dieses Kunstwerk von Edouard Traviès erzielte im Januar 2017 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Master Drawings wurde die Arbeit Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-bille für USD 32.500,00 (€ 30.109,32) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 18.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Studies of birds: Livingstone's tauraco, Red-winged crested cuckoo, and Common cuckoo; Royal flycatcher and Scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; Common redstart, Nightingale, and Black redstart; Helmeted guinea fowl, Little bustard, and Great bustard; Red-bille zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Edouard Traviès, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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