Pompeo Batoni

Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules Verso: Drapery studies

Found at Sothebys, London
Old Master and British Works on Paper, Lot 125
1. Jul - 6. Jul 2022
Estimate: 3.000 - 4.000 GBP
Price realised: 2.772 GBP
Pompeo Batoni
Lucques 1708 - 1787 Rome
Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules
Verso: Drapery studies
Red chalk heightened with white, on blue paper
395 by 272 mm
Private Collection, UK; | Veuve Galippe, Amsterdam, | her sale, Amsterdam, de Vries, 27-29 March 1923, part of lot 515 (as Anton Raphael Mengs); | Dr. Fritz Haussmann, Berlin; | Carmen, Countess Finckenstein, Zurich and Ascona; | with Yvonne ffrench, London, Exhibition of Old Master and Early English Drawings, presented by Yvonne ffrench at the Alpine Club Gallery, 1960, no. 27; | with Helene Seiferheld, New York; | Private Collection, New York; | with Spencer Samuels, New York, by 1991, | where

Auction result misses estimated price range

When the work Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules Verso: Drapery studies by Pompeo Batoni was auctioned at Sothebys in London in July last year, the result was somewhat disappointing. The auction house had previously given the estimated price as a range of GBP 3,000.00 – 4,000.00, of which not even the lower limit was reached - in fact, the artwork changed hands for GBP 2,772.00 (€ 3,310.26). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Pompeo Batoni achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Susanna And The Elders in February 2013 with an auction result of USD 11,394,500.00 (€ 8,712,057.50).

Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne

Als die Arbeit Recto: Studies of Hercules for The Choice of Hercules Verso: Drapery studies von Pompeo Batoni im Juli letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in London versteigert wurde, fiel das Ergebnis ein wenig enttäuschend aus. Das Auktionshaus hatte den Schätzpreis zuvor mit einer Spanne von GBP 3.000,00 – 4.000,00 angegeben, von der nicht einmal die Untergrenze erreicht wurde - tatsächlich wechselte das Kunstwerk für GBP 2.772,00 (€ 3.310,26) den Besitzer. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Pompeo Batoni erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Susanna And The Elders im Februar 2013 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 11.394.500,00 (€ 8.712.057,50).

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