Helen Lessore

A View of Highbury

Found at Bonhams, London
Blazing a TrailModern British Women, Lot 29
28. Sep - 28. Sep 2022
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.000 GBP
Price realised: 5.355 GBP
Helen Lessore (British, born 1907)
A View of Highbury
signed 'Helen Lessore' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.8 x 102.2 cm. (30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.)
Sale; Phillips, London, 9 May 1989, lot 145 (as Lyndhurst Gardens) | With John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, 10 December 1989, where acquired by the present owner | Private Collection, U.K.

A top price for Helen Lessore

This artwork by Helen Lessore achieved an unexpectedly high price at Bonhams in London in September last year. In the Blazing a TrailModern British Women auction, the work A View of Highbury sold for GBP 5,355.00 (€ 6,094.51) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 2,000.00. This high result makes A View of Highbury the most expensive artwork by Helen Lessore that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Helen Lessore

Dieses Kunstwerk von Helen Lessore erzielte im September letzten Jahres bei Bonhams in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Blazing a TrailModern British Women wurde die Arbeit A View of Highbury für GBP 5.355,00 (€ 6.094,51) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 2.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht A View of Highbury zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Helen Lessore, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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