John James Audubon
Yellow Throat Warbler
Found at
Christies,
New York
The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, Lot 111
26. May - 26. May 2022
The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, Lot 111
26. May - 26. May 2022
Estimate: 1.000 - 1.500 USD
Price realised: 5.670 USD
Price realised: 5.670 USD
Description
Yellow Throat Warbler
John James Audubon, 1830
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow Throat Warbler (Plate 85)
Sylvia Pensilis
Depicts a male yellow-throated warbler and a flowering branch of the Chinquapin tree. Low, p. 78.
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, dated 1830, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1830, with margins. Plate size 490 x 313 mm (949 x 633 mm sheet). (Small chip to bottom edge, a few marginal spots and stains, and a few very minor spots within image.) Matted and framed.
John James Audubon, 1830
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow Throat Warbler (Plate 85)
Sylvia Pensilis
Depicts a male yellow-throated warbler and a flowering branch of the Chinquapin tree. Low, p. 78.
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, dated 1830, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1830, with margins. Plate size 490 x 313 mm (949 x 633 mm sheet). (Small chip to bottom edge, a few marginal spots and stains, and a few very minor spots within image.) Matted and framed.
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work Yellow Throat Warbler by John James Audubon was auctioned at Christies in New York in May this year, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 1,500 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 5,670 (€ 5,284). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by John James Audubon achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work in June 2018 with an auction result of USD 9,650,000 (€ 8,264,109).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Yellow Throat Warbler von John James Audubon im Mai diesen Jahres bei Christies in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 1.500 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 5.670 (€ 5.284) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von John James Audubon erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit im Juni 2018 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 9.650.000 (€ 8.264.109).
John James Audubon - Auction history
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