Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Faucheurs, Deux Figures
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 USD
Price realised: 40.000 USD
Price realised: 40.000 USD
Description
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right)
pastel on paper
12 ½ x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1923.
with Galerie J. Allard, Paris. | with Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Inc., Montreal. | Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 February 1982, lot 31, as A Laborer Sharpening his Scythe. | with Schiller and Bodo, New York.
signed 'L. Lhermitte' (lower right)
pastel on paper
12 ½ x 17 in. (31.8 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1923.
with Galerie J. Allard, Paris. | with Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Inc., Montreal. | Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 February 1982, lot 31, as A Laborer Sharpening his Scythe. | with Schiller and Bodo, New York.
Sold at the lower estimate price
The work Faucheurs, Deux Figures by Léon Augustin Lhermitte was sold in the European Art auction at Christies in New York in April 2021. The result of USD 40,000.00 (€ 33,250.21) was exactly at the lower end of the estimate range of USD 40,000.00 – 60,000.00. Admittedly, works by Léon Augustin Lhermitte have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work La vendange à Mont-Saint-Père in April 2019 with an auction result of USD 300,000.00 (€ 267,833.23).
Zuschlag beim unteren Schätzpreis
Die Arbeit Faucheurs, Deux Figures von Léon Augustin Lhermitte wurde im April 2021 in der Auktion European Art bei Christies in New York versteigert. Das dabei erzielte Ergebnis von USD 40.000,00 (€ 33.250,21) entsprach exakt dem unteren Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von USD 40.000,00 – 60.000,00. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Léon Augustin Lhermitte auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit La vendange à Mont-Saint-Père im April 2019 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 300.000,00 (€ 267.833,23).
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