Harry Beck
Underground Map
Found at
Christies,
London
Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale, Lot 323
4. Oct - 4. Oct 2012
Posters With A Purpose: The London Transport Museum Sale, Lot 323
4. Oct - 4. Oct 2012
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 3.500 GBP
Price realised: 3.500 GBP
Description
Harry Beck (Henry Charles Beck, 1902-1974)
UNDERGROUND MAP
lithograph in colours, 1939, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London, condition B+/A-; backed on linen
39½ x 25in. (100 x 63cm.)
UNDERGROUND MAP
lithograph in colours, 1939, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London, condition B+/A-; backed on linen
39½ x 25in. (100 x 63cm.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by 75 %.
This artwork by Harry Beck 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 Underground Map sold for GBP 3,500.00 (€ 4,351.64) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 2,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Harry Beck - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Underground Map, which sold at auction in October 2012 for GBP 10,625.00 (€ 13,210.32).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 75 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Harry Beck 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 Underground Map für GBP 3.500,00 (€ 4.351,64) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 2.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Harry Beck mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Underground Map beobachtet, die im Oktober 2012 für GBP 10.625,00 (€ 13.210,32) versteigert wurde.
Harry Beck - Auction history
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