Victor Hugo
La Planète (Saturne)
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 GBP
Price realised: 434.500 GBP
Price realised: 434.500 GBP
Description
Victor Hugo
1802 - 1885
LA PLANÈTE (SATURNE)
ink wash, pen and ink, and charcoal heightened with gouache on paper
31 by 37cm., 12¼ by 14⅝in.
Executed circa 1854.
Estate of the Artist | Jean Hugo (the artist's great-grandson) | Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, Cinquante dessins de Victor Hugo, 15th June 1981, lot 8 | Private Collection | Sale: Laurin Guilloux Buffetaud Tailleur, Paris, 24th June 1988, lot 28 | Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
1802 - 1885
LA PLANÈTE (SATURNE)
ink wash, pen and ink, and charcoal heightened with gouache on paper
31 by 37cm., 12¼ by 14⅝in.
Executed circa 1854.
Estate of the Artist | Jean Hugo (the artist's great-grandson) | Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, Cinquante dessins de Victor Hugo, 15th June 1981, lot 8 | Private Collection | Sale: Laurin Guilloux Buffetaud Tailleur, Paris, 24th June 1988, lot 28 | Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
A top price for Victor Hugo
The work La Planète (Saturne) by Victor Hugo was worth GBP 434,500.00 (€ 527,153.05) to a buyer in February 2014. This price was achieved in the auction Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale at Sothebys in London and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of GBP 80,000.00 many times over. This high result makes La Planète (Saturne) the most expensive artwork by Victor Hugo that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Victor Hugo
Die Arbeit La Planète (Saturne) von Victor Hugo war einem Käufer im Februar 2014 GBP 434.500,00 (€ 527.153,05) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale bei Sothebys in London erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 80.000,00 um ein Vielfaches. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht La Planète (Saturne) zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Victor Hugo, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Victor Hugo - Auction history
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