Margaret Watkins
Dishes
Estimate: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Price realised: 13.145 USD
Price realised: 13.145 USD
Description
MARGARET WATKINS (1884-1969)
Dishes
Gelatin silver print. 1919. Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; signed, titled, annotated gaslight print, credit in ink and exhibition stamp on the reverse of the mount.
6¼ x 7 7/8in. (15.7 x 20cm.)
Dishes
Gelatin silver print. 1919. Signed and dated in pencil on the mount; signed, titled, annotated gaslight print, credit in ink and exhibition stamp on the reverse of the mount.
6¼ x 7 7/8in. (15.7 x 20cm.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by 46 %.
The work Dishes by Margaret Watkins was sold in the Photographs auction at Christies in New York in October 2002. The »bidding war« ended at USD 13,145.00 (€ 13,303.31), 46% above the upper estimate. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Margaret Watkins - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Domestic Symphony, c. 1920, which sold at auction in October 2018 for USD 50,000.00 (€ 44,122.84).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 46 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Dishes von Margaret Watkins wurde im Oktober 2002 in der Auktion Photographs bei Christies in New York versteigert. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von USD 13.145,00 (€ 13.303,31) und damit 46% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Für andere Arbeiten von Margaret Watkins mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Domestic Symphony, c. 1920 beobachtet, die im Oktober 2018 für USD 50.000,00 (€ 44.122,84) versteigert wurde.
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