Thomas Eakins
Untitled (Male Nudes Boxing)
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 USD
Price realised: 327.600 USD
Price realised: 327.600 USD
Description
Thomas Eakins
1844 - 1916
Untitled (Male Nudes Boxing)
albumen print, mounted to card, with Olympia Galleries’ notations in ink on the reverse, framed, circa 1883
image: 3 ¾ by 4 ¾ in. (9.5 by 12.1 cm.)
frame: 15 ¾ by 16 ¾ in. (40 by 42.5 cm.)
The photographer to Edward H. Coates, chairman of the Committee on Instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, circa 1883-86 | By descent through family | Collection of Joseph A. Seraphin, owner of Olympia Galleries, Ltd., 1974 | Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, The Olympia Galleries Important Collection of Photographs by Thomas Eakins, 10 November 1977, Sale 4044B, Lot 506
1844 - 1916
Untitled (Male Nudes Boxing)
albumen print, mounted to card, with Olympia Galleries’ notations in ink on the reverse, framed, circa 1883
image: 3 ¾ by 4 ¾ in. (9.5 by 12.1 cm.)
frame: 15 ¾ by 16 ¾ in. (40 by 42.5 cm.)
The photographer to Edward H. Coates, chairman of the Committee on Instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, circa 1883-86 | By descent through family | Collection of Joseph A. Seraphin, owner of Olympia Galleries, Ltd., 1974 | Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, The Olympia Galleries Important Collection of Photographs by Thomas Eakins, 10 November 1977, Sale 4044B, Lot 506
Artwork auctioned at six times the upper estimate price
When the work Untitled (Male Nudes Boxing) by Thomas Eakins was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in April last year, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 50,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than six times as high at USD 327,600.00 (€ 310,904.43). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Thomas Eakins achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Cowboys in the Badlands in May 2003 with an auction result of USD 5,383,500.00 (€ 4,575,471.70).
Kunstwerk zum Sechsfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Untitled (Male Nudes Boxing) von Thomas Eakins im April letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 50.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 327.600,00 (€ 310.904,43) mehr als sechsmal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Thomas Eakins erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Cowboys in the Badlands im Mai 2003 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 5.383.500,00 (€ 4.575.471,70).
Thomas Eakins - Auction history
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