Horace Bristol
PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944
Found at
Christies,
New York
Photographs Including Property from the Museum of Modern Art, Lot 122
10.Okt - 10.Okt.2017
Photographs Including Property from the Museum of Modern Art, Lot 122
10.Okt - 10.Okt.2017
Estimate: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Price realised: 30.000 USD
Price realised: 30.000 USD
Description
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed and annotated 'printer's proof' in ink (verso)
image: 16 x 15 1/2 in. (40.5 x 39.3 cm.)
sheet: 19 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (50.1 x 40.9 cm.)
Private Collection, New York.
signed and annotated 'printer's proof' in ink (verso)
image: 16 x 15 1/2 in. (40.5 x 39.3 cm.)
sheet: 19 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (50.1 x 40.9 cm.)
Private Collection, New York.
A top price for Horace Bristol
When the work PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944 by Horace Bristol was auctioned at Christies in New York in October 2017, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 9,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 30,000.00 (€ 25,755.49). This high result makes PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944 the most expensive artwork by Horace Bristol that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Horace Bristol
Als die Arbeit PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944 von Horace Bristol im Oktober 2017 bei Christies in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 9.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 30.000,00 (€ 25.755,49) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944 zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Horace Bristol, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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