Jean Messagier

Labours à ciel

Found at Sothebys, Paris
Art Contemporain Day Auction, Lot 146
1. Jun - 10. Jun 2022
Estimate: 12.000 - 18.000 EUR
Price realised: 40.320 EUR
Jean Messagier
1920 - 1999
Labours à ciel
titled and signed ; signed and dated 1969 on the reverse ; signed, titled and dated 1969 on the stretcher
oil on canvas
190,5 x 222,7 cm ; 75 x 87 11/16 in.
Executed in 1969.
This work is registered in the Jean Messagier archives and will be included in the Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared.
__________________________________________________________________________ Jean Messagier
Galerie Ariel, Paris

A top price for Jean Messagier

This artwork by Jean Messagier achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in Paris in June last year. In the Art Contemporain Day Auction auction, the work Labours à ciel sold for EUR 40,320.00 - well above the upper estimate of EUR 18,000.00. This high result makes Labours à ciel the most expensive artwork by Jean Messagier that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Jean Messagier

Dieses Kunstwerk von Jean Messagier erzielte im Juni letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in Paris einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Art Contemporain Day Auction wurde die Arbeit Labours à ciel für EUR 40.320,00 versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von EUR 18.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Labours à ciel zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Jean Messagier, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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