Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of the artist, bust-length

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

Portrait of the artist, bust-length

Found at Christies, New York
Old Masters, Lot 32
31.Okt - 31.Okt.2017
Estimate: 600.000 - 800.000 USD
Price realised: 1.512.500 USD
Description
signed and dated 'L.E. Vigée Le Brun / à Vienne 1794' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 3/8 x 20 ½ in. (64.3 x 52 cm.)
(Possibly) Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-1794), Vienna. | Albert Henry Wiggin (1868-1951), Boston and New York, by 1926, and by descent in 1951 to his daughter | Muriel Wiggin Seldon (b. 1897) and her husband Lynde Selden (1891-1972), Greenwich, Connecticut. | Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 June 1977, lot 73. | with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom acquired by the present owner.
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A top price for Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

This artwork by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in October 2017. In the Old Masters auction, the work Portrait of the artist, bust-length sold for USD 1,512,500.00 (€ 1,298,506.18) - well above the upper estimate of USD 800,000.00. This high result makes Portrait of the artist, bust-length the most expensive artwork by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

Dieses Kunstwerk von Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun erzielte im Oktober 2017 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Masters wurde die Arbeit Portrait of the artist, bust-length für USD 1.512.500,00 (€ 1.298.506,18) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 800.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Portrait of the artist, bust-length zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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