Winslow Homer

Two Girls on the Beach, Tynemouth

Found at Sothebys, New York
American Art, Lot 16
11. Dec - 11. Dec 2020
Estimate: 2.500.000 - 3.500.000 USD
Price realised: 2.440.000 USD
Property from a Prominent Private Collection
Winslow Homer
1836 - 1910
Two Girls on the Beach, Tynemouth
signed Winslow Homer and dated 1881 (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
14 1/8 by 20 inches
(35.9 by 50.8 cm)
Joseph S. Bigelow, Boston, Massachusetts, probably by 1882 | Mary Bryant Bigelow (Mrs. Joseph S. Bigelow), Cohasset, Massachusetts (by descent) | [with]Doll & Richards, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1934 | John S. Ames, Boston, Massachusetts, 1934 | Mrs. John S. Ames, North Easton, Massachuetts, 1959 (by descent) | Rebecca S. Ames Thompson (Mrs. Peter Thompson), Easton, Maryland (gift from the above) | [with]Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York | Ivor

Auction result misses estimated price range

This work of art by Winslow Homer could be acquired at Sothebys in New York in December 2020 for an unexpectedly low price. In the American Art auction, the work Two Girls on the Beach, Tynemouth changed hands for USD 2,440,000.00 (€ 1,995,094.03) - missing the lower end of the estimate range of USD 2,500,000.00 – 3,500,000.00. Other works by Winslow Homer have also sold for higher prices; the highest price we have seen at auction so far was achieved in May 2018 by the work Where are the Boats? at USD 4,572,500.00 (€ 3,918,166.24).

Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne

Dieses Kunstwerk von Winslow Homer konnte im Dezember 2020 bei Sothebys in New York für einen unerwartet niedrigen Preis ersteigert werden. In der Auktion American Art wechselte die Arbeit Two Girls on the Beach, Tynemouth für USD 2.440.000,00 (€ 1.995.094,03) den Besitzer – und verfehlte damit das untere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von USD 2.500.000,00 – 3.500.000,00. Andere Arbeiten von Winslow Homer wurden auch schon teurer gehandelt; den höchsten Preis, den wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachten konnten, erzielte im Mai 2018 die Arbeit Where are the Boats? mit USD 4.572.500,00 (€ 3.918.166,24).

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