Fougasse
Don'T Smoke
Found at
Christies,
London
Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale, Lot 28
4. Oct - 4. Oct 2012
Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale, Lot 28
4. Oct - 4. Oct 2012
Estimate: 1.000 - 1.500 GBP
Price realised: 2.750 GBP
Price realised: 2.750 GBP
Description
Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887-1965)
DON'T SMOKE
lithograph in colours, 1944, printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London, condition A-; backed on linen
24½ x 19½in. (62 x 50cm.)
DON'T SMOKE
lithograph in colours, 1944, printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London, condition A-; backed on linen
24½ x 19½in. (62 x 50cm.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by 83 %.
This artwork by Fougasse achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in October 2012. In the Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale auction, the work Don'T Smoke sold for GBP 2,750.00 (€ 3,419.14) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 1,500.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Fougasse - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Careless Talk Costs Lives, which sold at auction in May 2013 for GBP 7,500.00 (€ 8,768.67).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 83 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Fougasse erzielte im Oktober 2012 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale wurde die Arbeit Don'T Smoke für GBP 2.750,00 (€ 3.419,14) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 1.500,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Fougasse mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Careless Talk Costs Lives beobachtet, die im Mai 2013 für GBP 7.500,00 (€ 8.768,67) versteigert wurde.
Fougasse - Auction history
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