Manuel Mendive
Energías para el amor y la bondad
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 USD
Price realised: 125.000 USD
Price realised: 125.000 USD
Description
signed and dated 'MENDIVE 2015' (lower right)
installation in twenty-one parts: acrylic on canvas with canvas collage and cowrie shells with twenty metal-framed birds (acrylic on canvas with cowrie shells)
painting: 110 3/4 x 78 in. (281.3 x 198.1 cm.)
each bird: 18 ½ x 17 x 11 in. (47 x 43.2 x 7.9 cm.) approximately
Overall dimensions of installation variable.
Painted in 2015.
Acquired directly from the artist.
installation in twenty-one parts: acrylic on canvas with canvas collage and cowrie shells with twenty metal-framed birds (acrylic on canvas with cowrie shells)
painting: 110 3/4 x 78 in. (281.3 x 198.1 cm.)
each bird: 18 ½ x 17 x 11 in. (47 x 43.2 x 7.9 cm.) approximately
Overall dimensions of installation variable.
Painted in 2015.
Acquired directly from the artist.
A top price for Manuel Mendive
This artwork by Manuel Mendive achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in May 2017. In the Latin American Art auction, the work Energías para el amor y la bondad sold for USD 125,000.00 (€ 111,249.56) - well above the upper estimate of USD 60,000.00. This high result makes Energías para el amor y la bondad the most expensive artwork by Manuel Mendive that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Manuel Mendive
Dieses Kunstwerk von Manuel Mendive erzielte im Mai 2017 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Latin American Art wurde die Arbeit Energías para el amor y la bondad für USD 125.000,00 (€ 111.249,56) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 60.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Energías para el amor y la bondad zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Manuel Mendive, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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