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Olive Carleton Smyth - Pytheas Buys Amber

Olive Carleton Smyth

Pytheas Buys Amber

Found at Sothebys, London
Scottish Pictures, Lot 52
1. MAY - 1. MAY 2008
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Olive Carleton Smyth
1882-1949
PYTHEAS BUYS AMBER
signed l.r.: OLIVE SMYTH
tempera and gold paint on vellum, held in its original ornately decorated hexagonal wooden frame
34 by 40 cm.; 13¼ by 15½ in.
Robert Lawrence Esq.; | Sale: Sotheby's Gleneagles, 1 September 1999, Lot 1351; | Private Collection

A top price for Olive Carleton Smyth

The work Pytheas Buys Amber by Olive Carleton Smyth was worth GBP 62,900.00 (€ 80,011.55) to a buyer in May 2008. This price was achieved in the auction Scottish Pictures at Sothebys in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 20,000.00 many times over. This high result makes Pytheas Buys Amber the most expensive artwork by Olive Carleton Smyth that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Olive Carleton Smyth

Die Arbeit Pytheas Buys Amber von Olive Carleton Smyth war einem Käufer im Mai 2008 GBP 62.900,00 (€ 80.011,55) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion Scottish Pictures bei Sothebys in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 20.000,00 um ein Vielfaches. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Pytheas Buys Amber zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Olive Carleton Smyth, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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