Gustave Courbet

Femme Nue Couchée

Found at Christies, New York
The Artist's Muse: A Curated Evening Sale, Lot 10 A
9. Nov - 9. Nov 2015
Estimate: 15.000.000 - 25.000.000 USD
Price realised: 15.285.000 USD
signed and dated '..62 Gustave. Courbet.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 ½ x 38 ¼ in. (74.9 x 97.1 cm.)
Painted in 1862
Etienne Baudry, Saintes (until 1878). | Maurice Lippmann, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 April 1899, lot 8. | Prince de Wagram, Paris. | Baron Mór Lipót Herzog, Budapest. | Marczell von Nemes, Budapest; sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 18 June 1913, lot 98. | Bruno Cassirer, Berlin (acquired at the above sale). | Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Budapest (by 1927). | Confiscated from the above by the National Socialists in 1944. | Restituted to the Hatvany heirs in 2005. | Acquired shortly there

A top price for Gustave Courbet - as previously expected

The work Femme Nue Couchée by Gustave Courbet was auctioned at Christies in New York in November 2015. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of USD 15,000,000.00 – 25,000,000.00, the actual price achieved of USD 15,285,000.00 (€ 14,471,690.97) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. Even if this result could not surprise positively, Femme Nue Couchée is the most expensive artwork by Gustave Courbet that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis mit Ansage

Die Arbeit Femme Nue Couchée von Gustave Courbet kam im November 2015 bei Christies in New York zur Auktion. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von USD 15.000.000,00 – 25.000.000,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von USD 15.285.000,00 (€ 14.471.690,97) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Auch wenn das Ergebnis damit nicht positiv überraschen konnte, ist Femme Nue Couchée das teuerste Kunstwerk von Gustave Courbet, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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