Mervyn Peake
The red room
Estimate: 3.000 - 5.000 GBP
Price realised: 13.750 GBP
Price realised: 13.750 GBP
Description
signed and dated 'Peake/-45-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
There is another portrait by the same hand on the reverse.
with Clayton Sanders, Powys, where purchased by the present owner in 2004.
oil on canvas
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1945.
There is another portrait by the same hand on the reverse.
with Clayton Sanders, Powys, where purchased by the present owner in 2004.
A top price for Mervyn Peake
This artwork by Mervyn Peake achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in April 2019. In the Modern | British & Irish Art auction, the work The red room sold for GBP 13,750.00 (€ 15,995.22) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 5,000.00. This high result makes The red room the most expensive artwork by Mervyn Peake that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Mervyn Peake
Dieses Kunstwerk von Mervyn Peake erzielte im April 2019 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Modern | British & Irish Art wurde die Arbeit The red room für GBP 13.750,00 (€ 15.995,22) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 5.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht The red room zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Mervyn Peake, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Mervyn Peake - Auction history
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