Jean Puy
Nu Au Peignoir
Estimate: 18.000 - 25.000 GBP
Price realised: 73.250 GBP
Price realised: 73.250 GBP
Description
Jean Puy
1876 - 1960
NU AU PEIGNOIR
signed J Puy (lower right)
oil on canvas
100 by 82cm., 39 3/8 by 32 1/4 in.
Painted circa 1910.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) | Collection Petit Palais, Geneva | Oscar Ghez, Geneva | Connaught Brown Gallery, London | Sheila Mallett, Sydney | Acquired from the above by the present owner in August 1997
1876 - 1960
NU AU PEIGNOIR
signed J Puy (lower right)
oil on canvas
100 by 82cm., 39 3/8 by 32 1/4 in.
Painted circa 1910.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) | Collection Petit Palais, Geneva | Oscar Ghez, Geneva | Connaught Brown Gallery, London | Sheila Mallett, Sydney | Acquired from the above by the present owner in August 1997
A top price for Jean Puy
This artwork by Jean Puy achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in June 2009. In the Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale auction, the work Nu Au Peignoir sold for GBP 73,250.00 (€ 85,956.42) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 25,000.00. This high result makes Nu Au Peignoir the most expensive artwork by Jean Puy that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Jean Puy
Dieses Kunstwerk von Jean Puy erzielte im Juni 2009 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale wurde die Arbeit Nu Au Peignoir für GBP 73.250,00 (€ 85.956,42) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 25.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Nu Au Peignoir zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Jean Puy, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.