Marsden Hartley
Songs of Winter
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 USD
Price realised: 277.200 USD
Price realised: 277.200 USD
Description
Property from a Distinguished Boston Collection
Marsden Hartley
1877 - 1943
Songs of Winter
signed Marsden / Hartley (lower right); signed Marsden Hartley and titled (on the reverse)
oil on board
9 by 12 in.
22.9 by 30.5 cm.
Executed in 1909. This work is included in Gail R. Scott’s Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art.
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York | Acquired from the above in 1965 by the present owner
Marsden Hartley
1877 - 1943
Songs of Winter
signed Marsden / Hartley (lower right); signed Marsden Hartley and titled (on the reverse)
oil on board
9 by 12 in.
22.9 by 30.5 cm.
Executed in 1909. This work is included in Gail R. Scott’s Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art.
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York | Acquired from the above in 1965 by the present owner
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work Songs of Winter by Marsden Hartley was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in May last year, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 80,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 277,200.00 (€ 258,317.03). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Marsden Hartley achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Pre-War Pageant in November 2018 with an auction result of USD 27,395,000.00 (€ 24,194,118.17).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Songs of Winter von Marsden Hartley im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 80.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 277.200,00 (€ 258.317,03) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Marsden Hartley erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Pre-War Pageant im November 2018 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 27.395.000,00 (€ 24.194.118,17).
Marsden Hartley - Auction history
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