Kati Horna
Portrait of Leonora Carrington
Estimate: 8.000 - 12.000 USD
Price realised: 20.000 USD
Price realised: 20.000 USD
Description
Kati Horna (Hungarian/Mexican 1912-2000)
Portrait of Leonora Carrington
signed 'Kati Horna' and annotated 'Leonora Carrington 1987' (on the verso)
gelatin silver print of a collage gifted to Leonora Carrington as a birthday present on April 6, 1987
Image size: 9½ x 7¼ in. (24 x 18.4 cm.)
Paper size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed in 1987.
Portrait of Leonora Carrington
signed 'Kati Horna' and annotated 'Leonora Carrington 1987' (on the verso)
gelatin silver print of a collage gifted to Leonora Carrington as a birthday present on April 6, 1987
Image size: 9½ x 7¼ in. (24 x 18.4 cm.)
Paper size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed in 1987.
A top price for Kati Horna
The work Portrait of Leonora Carrington by Kati Horna was sold in the Latin American Sale Evening Session auction at Christies in New York in May 2008. It achieved a price of USD 20,000.00 (€ 12,853.47), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 67%. This high result makes Portrait of Leonora Carrington the most expensive artwork by Kati Horna that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Kati Horna
Die Arbeit Portrait of Leonora Carrington von Kati Horna wurde im Mai 2008 in der Auktion Latin American Sale Evening Session bei Christies in New York versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 20.000,00 (€ 12.853,47) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 67%. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Portrait of Leonora Carrington zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Kati Horna, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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