Sir Anthony Van Dyck
The Adoration of the Shepherds - a bozzetto
Estimate: 300.000 - 500.000 GBP
Price realised: 500.000 GBP
Price realised: 500.000 GBP
Description
The Chevalier J.B. Antoine (d. 1691), Post Master General in Antwerp (his seal previously affixed to the reverse), in whose posthumous Inventory of 1691 it appears as no. 60: 'Een schetse Kersnacht van van Dyck Fl. 72' ('A sketch of the Nativity by Van Dyck, 72 guilders'). | Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 28 November 1956, lot 84, as ‘Fragonard’, when acquired by the following, | with the Hallsborough Gallery, London, from whom purchased in 1957 by the following, | Private collection,
Sold at the upper estimate price
The work The Adoration of the Shepherds - a bozzetto by Anthony van Dyck was auctioned at Christies in London in December 2020. The auction ended at the price of GBP 500,000.00 (€ 558,544.56), which exactly corresponded to the upper end of the estimated price range of GBP 300,000.00 – 500,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Anthony van Dyck achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Portrait of Princess Mary (1631–1660), daughter of King Charles I of England, full-length, in a pink dress decorated with silver embroidery and ribbons in December 2018 with an auction result of GBP 5,858,750.00 (€ 6,527,167.10).
Zuschlag beim oberen Schätzpreis
Die Arbeit The Adoration of the Shepherds - a bozzetto von Anthony van Dyck kam im Dezember 2020 bei Christies in London zur Auktion. Das dabei erzielte Ergebnis von GBP 500.000,00 (€ 558.544,56) entsprach exakt dem oberen Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von GBP 300.000,00 – 500.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Anthony van Dyck erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Portrait of Princess Mary (1631–1660), daughter of King Charles I of England, full-length, in a pink dress decorated with silver embroidery and ribbons im Dezember 2018 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 5.858.750,00 (€ 6.527.167,10).
Anthony van Dyck - Auction history
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