Jewad Selim

The Couple

Found at Bonhams, London (Online Auction)
Sketches from Baghdad, Lot 30
9. Feb - 23. Feb 2022
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: 9.563 GBP
Jewad Selim (Iraq, 1919-1961)
The Couple
crayon on paper mounted on a greeting card
signed "Jewad Selim" and dated "1965" in Arabic (lower right), executed in 1965
18 x 14cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/2in).
Property from the collection of the renowned architects Nizar Jawdat (1920-2017) and Ellen Jawdat (1921-2020) | Gifted by the Artist to the above | Thence by descent to the present owners

Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price

The work The Couple by Jewad Selim was worth GBP 9,562.50 (€ 11,432.57) to a buyer in February last year. This price was achieved in the auction Sketches from Baghdad at Bonhams in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 3,000.00 many times over. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Jewad Selim achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Good and Evil, An Abstraction in November 2021 with an auction result of GBP 838,750.00 (€ 984,771.42).

Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert

Die Arbeit The Couple von Jewad Selim war einem Käufer im Februar letzten Jahres GBP 9.562,50 (€ 11.432,57) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion Sketches from Baghdad bei Bonhams in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 3.000,00 um ein Vielfaches. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Jewad Selim erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Good and Evil, An Abstraction im November 2021 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 838.750,00 (€ 984.771,42).

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