Richard Smith
Tip Top
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 GBP
Price realised: 131.250 GBP
Price realised: 131.250 GBP
Description
Richard Smith (1931 - 2016)
TIP TOP
signed and dated 64 on canvas overlap; also signed and inscribed on the stretcher bar
oil on canvas
167 by 175cm.; 65¾ by 69in.
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York | Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara | Sale, Sotheby's London, 4th December 1974, lot 70 | Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the present owner
TIP TOP
signed and dated 64 on canvas overlap; also signed and inscribed on the stretcher bar
oil on canvas
167 by 175cm.; 65¾ by 69in.
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York | Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara | Sale, Sotheby's London, 4th December 1974, lot 70 | Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the present owner
A top price for Richard Smith
This artwork by Richard Smith achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in June 2017. In the Modern & Post-War British Art auction, the work Tip Top sold for GBP 131,250.00 (€ 149,469.26) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 60,000.00. This high result makes Tip Top the most expensive artwork by Richard Smith that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Richard Smith
Dieses Kunstwerk von Richard Smith erzielte im Juni 2017 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Modern & Post-War British Art wurde die Arbeit Tip Top für GBP 131.250,00 (€ 149.469,26) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 60.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Tip Top zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Richard Smith, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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