Kusakabe Kimbei
Japanese views and portraits
Estimate: 1.000 - 1.500 GBP
Price realised: 1.076 GBP
Price realised: 1.076 GBP
Description
KUSAKABE KIMBEI (1841-1934)
Japanese views and portraits
Album of 56 prints, all but one hand-coloured. 1880s-90s. Each approx. 8 x 10½in. (20 x 26.5cm.) or reverse. Majority titled and numbered in negatives; 2 with printed titles on labels on mounts. K. Kimbei, Honcho-dori, Yokohama credit stamp on front pastedown. Each mounted back-to-back, tissue guards. Pictorial black lacquer, g.e. In printed cloth case.
Album size: 12¾ x 15¾in. (32 x 40.2cm.)
Japanese views and portraits
Album of 56 prints, all but one hand-coloured. 1880s-90s. Each approx. 8 x 10½in. (20 x 26.5cm.) or reverse. Majority titled and numbered in negatives; 2 with printed titles on labels on mounts. K. Kimbei, Honcho-dori, Yokohama credit stamp on front pastedown. Each mounted back-to-back, tissue guards. Pictorial black lacquer, g.e. In printed cloth case.
Album size: 12¾ x 15¾in. (32 x 40.2cm.)
Auction result well in line with expectations
In May 2003 Christies in London held the auction Photographs, which included the work Japanese views and portraits by Kusakabe Kimbei. The estimated price for the artwork was previously given by the auction house with a range of GBP 1,000.00 – 1,500.00, the actual price achieved of GBP 1,075.50 (€ 1,498.44) could thus just exceed the lower estimate. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Kusakabe Kimbei - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, circa 1880s-90s, which sold at auction in May 2000 for GBP 2,115.00 (€ 3,393.80).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Im Mai 2003 führte Christies in London die Auktion Photographs durch, in der auch die Arbeit Japanese views and portraits von Kusakabe Kimbei zur Versteigerung kam. Der Schätzpreis für das Kunstwerk wurde von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit einer Spanne von GBP 1.000,00 – 1.500,00 angegeben, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis von GBP 1.075,50 (€ 1.498,44) konnte den unteren Schätzpreis somit knapp übertreffen. Für andere Arbeiten von Kusakabe Kimbei mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Japanese landscapes and portrait studies, circa 1880s-90s beobachtet, die im Mai 2000 für GBP 2.115,00 (€ 3.393,80) versteigert wurde.
Kusakabe Kimbei - Auction history
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