Ken Grimes
Contact With Aliens Alone Won't Save Us, 1998
Estimate: 2.000 - 4.000 USD
Price realised: 10.000 USD
Price realised: 10.000 USD
Description
initialed and dated KG 98 lower right
acrylic and graphite on canvas
75 x 53 ½ in.
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
acrylic and graphite on canvas
75 x 53 ½ in.
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
A top price for Ken Grimes
This artwork by Ken Grimes achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in January 2019. In the Outsider and Vernacular Art auction, the work Contact With Aliens Alone Won't Save Us, 1998 sold for USD 10,000.00 (€ 8,730.57) - well above the upper estimate of USD 4,000.00. This high result makes Contact With Aliens Alone Won't Save Us, 1998 the most expensive artwork by Ken Grimes that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Ken Grimes
Dieses Kunstwerk von Ken Grimes erzielte im Januar 2019 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Outsider and Vernacular Art wurde die Arbeit Contact With Aliens Alone Won't Save Us, 1998 für USD 10.000,00 (€ 8.730,57) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 4.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Contact With Aliens Alone Won't Save Us, 1998 zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Ken Grimes, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Ken Grimes - Auction history
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