Vagrich Bakhchanyan
Flowers
Estimate: 600 - 800 USD
Price realised: 3.750 USD
Price realised: 3.750 USD
Description
Vagrich Bakhchanyan
1938-2009
FLOWERS
signed in Cyrillic and dated '1969' l.m.
collage on paper
Bakhchanyan grew up in Kharkiv in Ukraine until the mid-1960s, when he moved to Moscow where he produced caricatures for 'Literaturnaya gazeta'. In 1974 he emigrated to New York City. 'Through collages, artist’s books, and other mixed media objects - which the artist minimally altered from their everyday appearance - he revealed the fine line that can separate normality from madness, banality from absurdity, platitude from blasphemy. Through ex
collage on paper
Sheet: 14 by 11in., 35.5 by 28cm
Framed: 23 3/4 by 19 1/2 in., 60 by 49.5cm
Collection of Mikhail Grobman, Jerusalem
1938-2009
FLOWERS
signed in Cyrillic and dated '1969' l.m.
collage on paper
Bakhchanyan grew up in Kharkiv in Ukraine until the mid-1960s, when he moved to Moscow where he produced caricatures for 'Literaturnaya gazeta'. In 1974 he emigrated to New York City. 'Through collages, artist’s books, and other mixed media objects - which the artist minimally altered from their everyday appearance - he revealed the fine line that can separate normality from madness, banality from absurdity, platitude from blasphemy. Through ex
collage on paper
Sheet: 14 by 11in., 35.5 by 28cm
Framed: 23 3/4 by 19 1/2 in., 60 by 49.5cm
Collection of Mikhail Grobman, Jerusalem
Artwork auctioned at four times the upper estimate price
When the work Flowers by Vagrich Bakhchanyan was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in October 2018, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 800.00 but the actual price achieved was more than four times as high at USD 3,750.00 (€ 3,309.21). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Vagrich Bakhchanyan - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Stalin Test, which sold at auction in February 2007 for GBP 6,000.00 (€ 8,894.78).
Kunstwerk zum Vierfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Flowers von Vagrich Bakhchanyan im Oktober 2018 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 800,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 3.750,00 (€ 3.309,21) mehr als viermal so hoch. Für andere Arbeiten von Vagrich Bakhchanyan mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Stalin Test beobachtet, die im Februar 2007 für GBP 6.000,00 (€ 8.894,78) versteigert wurde.
Vagrich Bakhchanyan - Auction history
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