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A fine portrait of Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand-Perigord by Baron Gérard (1770-1837), one of the greatest French portraitist of the Napoleonic era, was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a record price on the 24th of January at Sotheby’s, New York.
(Alex Kearney)
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| Line graph of sale prices for Baron Gérard from 1990 to 2001: the blue line indicates the actual prices, the red line corresponds to the deflated values. Source Gabrius Art Index |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is the artist
that best described the belle époque. His renowned colour affiches,
in which he captured the lively and uninhibited Paris of the brothels and the
cafés, helped affirm the aesthetic potential of the advertising poster
which today has collectors willing to pay six figure prices.
(Matilde Marzotto)
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| Line graph of sale prices for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from 1990-2001: the blue line indicates the actual prices, the red line corresponds to inflation
Gabrius Art Index |
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The recent rediscovery of the Botti Madonna by Andrea del Sarto’s (1486–1530) has raised the profile of the great Florentine master, albeit one largely unknown to the public. Original del Sartos very seldom appear on the market it is interesting to note how the Botti painting, lost for almost 400 years, turned up at a minor auction four years ago in the US as a copy selling for a mere few hundred dollars.
(Alex Kearney)
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| Andrea del Sarto,
Botti Madonna |
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Twenty of the one hundred known works by the 17th Century Flemish painter Jan Siberechts (Antwerp 1627-c. 1703) have come onto the art market in the last 10 years. Earlier this year, Bonhams, London sold a river view by the artist for a record $ 1,097,350. Previous sales, however, indicate that this excellent showing was a one-off prompted by particular circumstances and does not point to a rekindling of market interest for Siberechts.
(Fiona Long)
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| Line graph of sale prices for Jan Siberechts 1990-2000. The blue line indicates the actual prices, whereas the red line corresponds to inflation |
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The market for Bonifacio de’ Pitati, called Bonifacio Veronese (Verona 1487 – 1553 Venice), an artist who rarely exceeds his estimates, has just received a shot in the arm. On the 1st November, at Sotheby’s Old Masters auction, London, a Madonna and Child (oil on panel, 64.5 x 50 cm) attributed to the artist made a premium price of $ 113,870 against a pre-sale estimate of $ 42,700-71,170.
(Alex Kearney)
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| Bonifacio de’ Pitati,
Madonna and Child |
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Works by Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676 - Venice 1730) have performed somewhat unevenly at auctions over the years though recently the number of pieces offered for sale has been on the high side. From 1990 to today the major auction houses have sold over sixty works by the artist and for this reason, it is perhaps a good time to analyse this market.
(Angelica Poggi)
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| Marco Ricci,
Capriccio with ruins |
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On the 14th of June 2001, Johann Zoffany’s (1733-1810) conversation piece, The Dutton Family (in the Drawing Room, Sherbourne Park, Gloucestershire), (an oil on canvas measuring 101.5 x 127 cm) set a new record price for the artist when it sold at Sotheby’s London for $ 4.6 million (€ 5.1 million). Now the same auction house is offering another work by the artist on the 29th of November in London.
(Alex Kearney)
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| Johann Zoffany,
The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room, Sherbourne Park, Gloucestershire |
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From the 12th of October to the 17th of February the Bonnefanten Museum in the Dutch city of Maastricht, is staging an exhibition investigating the production of copies by Pieter Brueghel the II (Younger, 1564-1637) and his assistants, of the work of his father. A version of one of the exhibits, The collector of tithes, will be offered for sale at Christie’s, Amsterdam on the 7th of November with an estimate of $ 62,340-80,150 (€ 70,000-90,000).
(Andrew Moore)
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| Sir Anthony van Dyck,
Portrait of Pieter Brueghel II (the Younger) |
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On the 3rd of October 2001, a Japanese buyer paid a hammer price of $ 88,230 (€ 98,830) against an estimate of $ 45,530-58,000 (€ 51,000-65,000) at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum in Vienna, for a copy of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez’s The Infanta Margarita Teresa at the age of five (oil on canvas, 53 x 43 cm). As originals by the Spanish 17th century master are neer’on impossible to find, period copies are now riding high in price.
(Alex Kearney)
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| School of Diego Velázquez,
The Infanta Margarita Teresa at the age of five |
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The Antwerp born and bred artist, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), is a prime example of how prices for second division 17th century painters are now attracting high prices. Up until the 1980’s an oil painting by Jordaens would have typically hammered for $ 5,000 (€ 5,570). However as the once teeming reservoir of top quality Old Masters dry up, such unpopularity for Jordaens is now a thing of the past and his paintings now command very strong prices.
(Fiona Long)
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| Jacob Jordaens,
Double portrait of Rogier le Witer and his wife |
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