Harry Bertoia
Untitled (Sonambient)
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 USD
Price realised: 390.600 USD
Price realised: 390.600 USD
Description
Property from the Bertoia Family and Harry Bertoia Foundation, Sold to Benefit the Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné Project
Harry Bertoia
Untitled (Sonambient)
circa mid-1970s
five rows of five rods (25 rods total)
with cylinder tops
on applied feet
bronze, beryllium copper and brass
30 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (78.4 x 30.2 x 30.2 cm) cylinder tops: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm) high; 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) diameter
Harry Bertoia
Untitled (Sonambient)
circa mid-1970s
five rows of five rods (25 rods total)
with cylinder tops
on applied feet
bronze, beryllium copper and brass
30 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (78.4 x 30.2 x 30.2 cm) cylinder tops: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm) high; 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) diameter
Artwork auctioned at six times the upper estimate price
When the work Untitled (Sonambient) by Harry Bertoia was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in December 2021, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 60,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than six times as high at USD 390,600.00 (€ 345,113.98). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Harry Bertoia - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Screen From One Marine Midland Center, Buffalo, New York, which sold at auction in November 2015 for USD 790,000.00 (€ 747,964.40).
Kunstwerk zum Sechsfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Untitled (Sonambient) von Harry Bertoia im Dezember 2021 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 60.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 390.600,00 (€ 345.113,98) mehr als sechsmal so hoch. Für andere Arbeiten von Harry Bertoia mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Screen From One Marine Midland Center, Buffalo, New York beobachtet, die im November 2015 für USD 790.000,00 (€ 747.964,40) versteigert wurde.
Harry Bertoia - Auction history
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