Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A.
Life in Connemara, a Market Day
Found at
Christies,
London
The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures, Lot 21
9. Jul - 9. Jul 2021
The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures, Lot 21
9. Jul - 9. Jul 2021
Estimate: 150.000 - 250.000 GBP
Price realised: 450.000 GBP
Price realised: 450.000 GBP
Description
Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. (1859-1903)
Life in Connemara, a Market Day
signed and dated 'Walter Osborne./-98' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 31 ½ in. (63.5 x 80 cm.)
Painted in 1898.
To be sold with accompanying letters from the artist to the original purchaser, Mr Edward Lloyd Edwards.
- Purchased by Edward Lloyd Edwards from the 1898 exhibition, and by descent to Mrs Martin Whitworth. | Her sale; Phillips, Bryn Oerog, Langollen, 27 March 1993, lot 182, where acquired for the present collection.
Life in Connemara, a Market Day
signed and dated 'Walter Osborne./-98' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 31 ½ in. (63.5 x 80 cm.)
Painted in 1898.
To be sold with accompanying letters from the artist to the original purchaser, Mr Edward Lloyd Edwards.
- Purchased by Edward Lloyd Edwards from the 1898 exhibition, and by descent to Mrs Martin Whitworth. | Her sale; Phillips, Bryn Oerog, Langollen, 27 March 1993, lot 182, where acquired for the present collection.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 80 %.
This artwork by Walter Frederick Osborne achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in July 2021. In the The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures auction, the work Life in Connemara, a Market Day sold for GBP 450,000.00 (€ 527,718.31) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 250,000.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Walter Frederick Osborne; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Dorothy And Irene Falkiner sold at auction in May 2008 with the realized price of GBP 580,500.00 (€ 738,421.37).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 80 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Walter Frederick Osborne erzielte im Juli 2021 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures wurde die Arbeit Life in Connemara, a Market Day für GBP 450.000,00 (€ 527.718,31) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 250.000,00. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Walter Frederick Osborne; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Dorothy And Irene Falkiner im Mai 2008 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 580.500,00 (€ 738.421,37).
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