Pier Leone Ghezzi
A Caricature Of A Dominican Friar
Estimate: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Price realised: 3.438 USD
Price realised: 3.438 USD
Description
Pier Leone Ghezzi
ROME 1674 - 1755
A CARICATURE OF A DOMINICAN FRIAR
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk;
signed, inscribed and dated in brown ink, lower right: CAVALIER. GHEZZI. FECE. 1754 / P. CONCINA. DOMENICANO. CHE. STAMPO / CONTO. I. TEATRI. E. LE. COMEDIE
inscribed in brown ink, lower left: Il Padre concina nemico / delle comedie
mount numbered in brown ink, upper right: 65
Possibly from a volume of caricatures in the collection of King Charles III of Spain; | thence by descent in the Spanish Royal Collection until the Battle of Vittoria, 1813; | when seized by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, | by descent to the 7th Duke of Wellington; | the volume broken up in 1971
ROME 1674 - 1755
A CARICATURE OF A DOMINICAN FRIAR
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk;
signed, inscribed and dated in brown ink, lower right: CAVALIER. GHEZZI. FECE. 1754 / P. CONCINA. DOMENICANO. CHE. STAMPO / CONTO. I. TEATRI. E. LE. COMEDIE
inscribed in brown ink, lower left: Il Padre concina nemico / delle comedie
mount numbered in brown ink, upper right: 65
Possibly from a volume of caricatures in the collection of King Charles III of Spain; | thence by descent in the Spanish Royal Collection until the Battle of Vittoria, 1813; | when seized by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, | by descent to the 7th Duke of Wellington; | the volume broken up in 1971
Auction result misses estimated price range
When the work A Caricature Of A Dominican Friar by Pier Leone Ghezzi was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in January 2014, the result was somewhat disappointing. The auction house had previously given the estimated price as a range of USD 5,000.00 – 7,000.00, of which not even the lower limit was reached - in fact, the artwork changed hands for USD 3,438.00 (€ 2,546.67). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Pier Leone Ghezzi achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Paolo De Matteis In His Studio in April 2008 with an auction result of USD 91,000.00 (€ 58,453.24).
Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne
Als die Arbeit A Caricature Of A Dominican Friar von Pier Leone Ghezzi im Januar 2014 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, fiel das Ergebnis ein wenig enttäuschend aus. Das Auktionshaus hatte den Schätzpreis zuvor mit einer Spanne von USD 5.000,00 – 7.000,00 angegeben, von der nicht einmal die Untergrenze erreicht wurde - tatsächlich wechselte das Kunstwerk für USD 3.438,00 (€ 2.546,67) den Besitzer. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Pier Leone Ghezzi erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Paolo De Matteis In His Studio im April 2008 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 91.000,00 (€ 58.453,24).
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