Giovanni David
A Nightmare
Estimate: 14.000 - 18.000 GBP
Price realised: 43.750 GBP
Price realised: 43.750 GBP
Description
Giovanni David
CABELLA 1743 - 1790 GENOA
A NIGHTMARE
Pen and black and grey ink with grey and brown wash, heightened with white and yellow, over black chalk, set within a fictive mount, drawn with a blue wash border and black ink framing lines
236 by 306 mm
Sale, Milan, Sotheby's, 8 May 2001, lot 435; | with Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London and New York, Master Drawings, 2002, no. 27 | Private collection
CABELLA 1743 - 1790 GENOA
A NIGHTMARE
Pen and black and grey ink with grey and brown wash, heightened with white and yellow, over black chalk, set within a fictive mount, drawn with a blue wash border and black ink framing lines
236 by 306 mm
Sale, Milan, Sotheby's, 8 May 2001, lot 435; | with Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London and New York, Master Drawings, 2002, no. 27 | Private collection
A top price for Giovanni David
This artwork by Giovanni David achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in July 2018. In the Old Master & British Works on Paper auction, the work A Nightmare sold for GBP 43,750.00 (€ 49,053.37) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 18,000.00. This high result makes A Nightmare the most expensive artwork by Giovanni David that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Giovanni David
Dieses Kunstwerk von Giovanni David erzielte im Juli 2018 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Master & British Works on Paper wurde die Arbeit A Nightmare für GBP 43.750,00 (€ 49.053,37) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 18.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht A Nightmare zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Giovanni David, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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