Walter Crane, R.W.S.
The Enchanted Boat
Found at
Christies,
London
Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Lot 43
11.Jul - 11.Jul.2018
Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art, Lot 43
11.Jul - 11.Jul.2018
Estimate: 7.000 - 10.000 GBP
Price realised: 37.500 GBP
Price realised: 37.500 GBP
Description
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic, and with scratching out on paper
9 7/8 x 21 in. (25.1 x 53.3 cm.)
William Wiltshire. | with Maas Gallery, London.
9 7/8 x 21 in. (25.1 x 53.3 cm.)
William Wiltshire. | with Maas Gallery, London.
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work The Enchanted Boat by Walter Crane was auctioned at Christies in London in July 2018, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - GBP 10,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at GBP 37,500.00 (€ 42,045.75). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Walter Crane achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work The Fate of Persephone that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered. (Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 268-71) in June 2002 with an auction result of GBP 424,650.00 (€ 656,837.38).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit The Enchanted Boat von Walter Crane im Juli 2018 bei Christies in London versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – GBP 10.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit GBP 37.500,00 (€ 42.045,75) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Walter Crane erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit The Fate of Persephone that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered. (Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 268-71) im Juni 2002 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 424.650,00 (€ 656.837,38).
Walter Crane - Auction history
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