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- Recto: Personification Of A Virtue Verso: Partial Figure Study In Red Chalk
Pietro Testa
Recto: Personification Of A Virtue Verso: Partial Figure Study In Red Chalk
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Old Master Drawings, Lot 74
28. Jan - 28. Jan 2015
Old Master Drawings, Lot 74
28. Jan - 28. Jan 2015
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
Pietro Testa
LUCCA 1612 - 1650 ROME
RECTO: PERSONIFICATION OF A VIRTUE VERSO: PARTIAL FIGURE STUDY IN RED CHALK
Black chalk (recto);
red chalk (verso);
bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, lower left, recto: Pietro Testa
170 by 150 mm; 6 11/16 by 6 in
Dr. A. Ritter von Wurzbach Tannenberg (according to 1969 exhibition catalogue; no collector's mark visible); | Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 12 January, 1990, lot 152; | Walter Lees, | his sale, Christie’s, London, 16 July 2010, lot 121
LUCCA 1612 - 1650 ROME
RECTO: PERSONIFICATION OF A VIRTUE VERSO: PARTIAL FIGURE STUDY IN RED CHALK
Black chalk (recto);
red chalk (verso);
bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, lower left, recto: Pietro Testa
170 by 150 mm; 6 11/16 by 6 in
Dr. A. Ritter von Wurzbach Tannenberg (according to 1969 exhibition catalogue; no collector's mark visible); | Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 12 January, 1990, lot 152; | Walter Lees, | his sale, Christie’s, London, 16 July 2010, lot 121
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Recto: Personification Of A Virtue Verso: Partial Figure Study In Red Chalk by Pietro Testa was sold in the Old Master Drawings auction at Sothebys in New York in January 2015. It changed hands for a price of USD 6,875.00 (€ 6,089.46) achieving a result in the upper range of the estimate price range of USD 5,000.00 – 7,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Pietro Testa achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Aeneas On The Bank Of The River Styx in February 2013 with an auction result of USD 2,994,500.00 (€ 2,289,548.13).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Recto: Personification Of A Virtue Verso: Partial Figure Study In Red Chalk von Pietro Testa wurde im Januar 2015 in der Auktion Old Master Drawings bei Sothebys in New York versteigert. Dabei wechselte sie für einen Preis von USD 6.875,00 (€ 6.089,46) den Besitzer und erzielte damit ein Ergebnis im oberen Bereich der Schätzpreisspanne von USD 5.000,00 – 7.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Pietro Testa erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Aeneas On The Bank Of The River Styx im Februar 2013 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 2.994.500,00 (€ 2.289.548,13).
