Jacopo Ligozzi
The Abduction Of The Sabine Women
Estimate: 80.000 - 120.000 USD
Price realised: 175.000 USD
Price realised: 175.000 USD
Description
Jacopo Ligozzi
VERONA 1547 - 1627 FLORENCE
THE ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN
signed and indistinctly dated lower center: IACOPO LIGOZZI / FA [CE]VA...96
oil on canvas
52 1/8 by 73 3/8 in.; 132.3 by 186.4 cm.
Bardi collection, Rome, before 1946 (almost certainly Pietro Maria Bardi, who moved that year to Brazil); | Private collection, Sao Paulo, Brazil; | Thence by descent until anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 11 January 1990, lot 71; | Where acquired by A. Alfred Taubman.
VERONA 1547 - 1627 FLORENCE
THE ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN
signed and indistinctly dated lower center: IACOPO LIGOZZI / FA [CE]VA...96
oil on canvas
52 1/8 by 73 3/8 in.; 132.3 by 186.4 cm.
Bardi collection, Rome, before 1946 (almost certainly Pietro Maria Bardi, who moved that year to Brazil); | Private collection, Sao Paulo, Brazil; | Thence by descent until anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 11 January 1990, lot 71; | Where acquired by A. Alfred Taubman.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 46 %.
The work The Abduction Of The Sabine Women by Jacopo Ligozzi was sold in the Master Paintings auction at Sothebys in New York in May 2016. It achieved a price of USD 175,000.00 (€ 157,162.10), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 46%. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Jacopo Ligozzi - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work A Turbanned Pasha With An Elephant, which sold at auction in July 2009 for GBP 529,250.00 (€ 600,540.11).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 46 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit The Abduction Of The Sabine Women von Jacopo Ligozzi wurde im Mai 2016 in der Auktion Master Paintings bei Sothebys in New York versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 175.000,00 (€ 157.162,10) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 46%. Für andere Arbeiten von Jacopo Ligozzi mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit A Turbanned Pasha With An Elephant beobachtet, die im Juli 2009 für GBP 529.250,00 (€ 600.540,11) versteigert wurde.
Jacopo Ligozzi - Auction history
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