Francis Helps

The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition: sherpas loading yaks with supplies

Found at Christies, London
Topographical Pictures including Selections from the Kelton Collection, Lot 110
29.Okt - 29.Okt.2019
Estimate: 3.000 - 5.000 GBP
Price realised: 3.500 GBP
signed and dated 'Francis Helps 24' (lower left), signed with initials 'FH' (on one of the packing crates)
oil on canvas
22 x 30in. (55.8 x 76.2cm.)
Walter Seymour (label on reverse of the frame). | Anon. sale, Kaminski, Beverly, Massachusetts, 16 Feb. 2014, lot 8109.

A top price for Francis Helps - as previously expected

In October 2019 Christies in London held the auction Topographical Pictures including Selections from the Kelton Collection, which included the work The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition: sherpas loading yaks with supplies by Francis Helps. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of GBP 3,000.00 – 5,000.00, the actual price achieved of GBP 3,500.00 (€ 4,059.75) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. Even if this result could not surprise positively, The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition: sherpas loading yaks with supplies is the most expensive artwork by Francis Helps that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis mit Ansage

Im Oktober 2019 führte Christies in London die Auktion Topographical Pictures including Selections from the Kelton Collection durch, in der auch die Arbeit The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition: sherpas loading yaks with supplies von Francis Helps zur Versteigerung kam. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von GBP 3.000,00 – 5.000,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von GBP 3.500,00 (€ 4.059,75) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Auch wenn das Ergebnis damit nicht positiv überraschen konnte, ist The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition: sherpas loading yaks with supplies das teuerste Kunstwerk von Francis Helps, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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