Karel Wiggers

A portrait of a girl

Found at Christies, Amsterdam
PICTURES WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS, Lot 441
22. Jan - 22. Jan 2002
Estimate: 1.800 - 2.200 EUR
Price realised: 3.760 EUR
Karel Wiggers (Dutch, 1916-1989)
A portrait of a girl
signed 'Wiggers' (lower right)
oil on board in a guilded frame
35 x 29 cm.

Upper estimate price exceeded by 71 %.

The work A portrait of a girl by Karel Wiggers was sold in the PICTURES WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS auction at Christies in Amsterdam in January 2002. It achieved a price of EUR 3,760.00 exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 71 %. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Karel Wiggers; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot A portrait of a girl sold at auction in June 2009 with the realized price of EUR 6,000.00.

Oberer Schätzpreis um 71 % übertroffen

Die Arbeit A portrait of a girl von Karel Wiggers wurde im Januar 2002 in der Auktion PICTURES WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS bei Christies in Amsterdam versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von EUR 3.760,00 und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 71 %. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Karel Wiggers; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit A portrait of a girl im Juni 2009 mit dem Hammerpreis von EUR 6.000,00.

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