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- Illustration From The Fairytale The Water King And Vasilissa The Wise
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin
Illustration From The Fairytale The Water King And Vasilissa The Wise
Estimate: 20.000 - 30.000 GBP
Price realised: 94.850 GBP
Price realised: 94.850 GBP
Description
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin
1876-1942
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE FAIRYTALE THE WATER KING AND VASILISSA THE WISE
signed in Latin and with initials in Cyrillic and dated 1931 l.r.; further inscribed with the artist's name and address in Latin, titled Wassilissa la très sage (choix de la financée) on reverse
watercolour with gouache over pencil on paper
image size: 27 by 22.25cm., 10 1/2 by 8 3/4in.
1876-1942
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE FAIRYTALE THE WATER KING AND VASILISSA THE WISE
signed in Latin and with initials in Cyrillic and dated 1931 l.r.; further inscribed with the artist's name and address in Latin, titled Wassilissa la très sage (choix de la financée) on reverse
watercolour with gouache over pencil on paper
image size: 27 by 22.25cm., 10 1/2 by 8 3/4in.
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work Illustration From The Fairytale The Water King And Vasilissa The Wise by Ivan Bilibin was auctioned at Sothebys in London in June 2008, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - GBP 30,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at GBP 94,850.00 (€ 119,893.58). Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Ivan Bilibin; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Tsaritsa Militrissa sold at auction in November 2007 with the realized price of GBP 150,500.00 (€ 210,738.94).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Illustration From The Fairytale The Water King And Vasilissa The Wise von Ivan Bilibin im Juni 2008 bei Sothebys in London versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – GBP 30.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit GBP 94.850,00 (€ 119.893,58) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Ivan Bilibin; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Tsaritsa Militrissa im November 2007 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 150.500,00 (€ 210.738,94).