Howard Finster
Howard Behind the Desk of Visions (Self Portrait), #1,744, 1980
Found at
Christies,
New York
Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art Featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed, Lot 40
19.Jan - 19.Jan.2018
Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art Featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed, Lot 40
19.Jan - 19.Jan.2018
Estimate: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Price realised: 12.500 USD
Price realised: 12.500 USD
Description
signed BY HOWARD FINSTER upper right and lower left; reverse inscribed BY HOWARD FINSTER/ MAN OF VISIONS 1980/ YEAR OF THE HEAT WAVE/ VALCONAS AND EARTH QUAKES/ WHILE I WAS IN NEW YORK/ AT MY ONE MAN SHOW and HOWARD BEHIND THE DESK/ OF VISIONS PASTOR OF/ SILVER HILL BAPTIST CHURCH; reverse bears adhered printed portrait of Finster inscribed Howard in 1944
enamel and ink on incised wood
53 x 29 in.
enamel and ink on incised wood
53 x 29 in.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 79 %.
This artwork by Howard Finster achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in January 2018. In the Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art Featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed auction, the work Howard Behind the Desk of Visions (Self Portrait), #1,744, 1980 sold for USD 12,500.00 (€ 10,057.93) - well above the upper estimate of USD 7,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Howard Finster - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Traveling Show: Presentation Piece Detailing the Life of Howard Finster, 1988, which sold at auction in January 2019 for USD 43,750.00 (€ 38,196.26).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 79 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Howard Finster erzielte im Januar 2018 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art Featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed wurde die Arbeit Howard Behind the Desk of Visions (Self Portrait), #1,744, 1980 für USD 12.500,00 (€ 10.057,93) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 7.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Howard Finster mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Traveling Show: Presentation Piece Detailing the Life of Howard Finster, 1988 beobachtet, die im Januar 2019 für USD 43.750,00 (€ 38.196,26) versteigert wurde.
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