Jim Drain
Toilet Top Bench
Estimate: 500 - 700 USD
Price realised: 3.276 USD
Price realised: 3.276 USD
Description
Meeting New Art Halfway: The Collection of Anita Reiner
Jim Drain
b.1975
Toilet Top Bench
enamel, steel, wood and rubber
18½ by 62 by 21½ in. (46.9 by 157.5 by 54.6 cm.)
Executed in 2008.
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York | Estate of Anita Reiner, New York (acquired from the above in 2009)
Jim Drain
b.1975
Toilet Top Bench
enamel, steel, wood and rubber
18½ by 62 by 21½ in. (46.9 by 157.5 by 54.6 cm.)
Executed in 2008.
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York | Estate of Anita Reiner, New York (acquired from the above in 2009)
Artwork auctioned at four times the upper estimate price
When the work Toilet Top Bench by Jim Drain was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in March 2021, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 700.00 but the actual price achieved was more than four times as high at USD 3,276.00 (€ 2,789.75). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Jim Drain - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work LFSVR, which sold at auction in September 2012 for USD 12,500.00 (€ 9,723.09).
Kunstwerk zum Vierfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Toilet Top Bench von Jim Drain im März 2021 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 700,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 3.276,00 (€ 2.789,75) mehr als viermal so hoch. Für andere Arbeiten von Jim Drain mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit LFSVR beobachtet, die im September 2012 für USD 12.500,00 (€ 9.723,09) versteigert wurde.
Jim Drain - Auction history
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