Koller's Old Master and 19th Century Paintings auctions achieve 100% sell through rates

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, March 28, 2024


Koller's Old Master and 19th Century Paintings auctions achieve 100% sell through rates
Arnold Böcklin’s powerfully dynamic “Battle on the Bridge” changed hands for CHF 240,000.



ZURICH.- The Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings auctions at Koller Zurich on 29 March enjoyed a very successful sales rate, with over 100% sold by value. A portrait by Lucas Cranach and his workshop of Cranach’s patron, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, nearly tripled its presale estimate to sell for CHF 264,000. Arnold Böcklin’s powerfully dynamic “Battle on the Bridge” changed hands for CHF 240,000.

Further Old Master works included a rediscovered work by Jan Wellens de Cock that fetched CHF 168,000, and a work by Gerrit Dou that realised CHF 156,000. Among the 19th century paintings, a shimmering Venice landscape by Carl Morgenstern sold for CHF 72,000, and a humorous de- piction of a butterfly-chasing botanist by Carl Spitzweg fetched CHF 114,000.

The collection of Dutch filmmaker Jef Rademakers achieved very good results, such as the CHF 90,000 realised for Andreas Schelfhout’s nocturnal skating scene.

Other categories during the auction week achieved similar stellar sell-through rates, and strong prices were realized in each auction. The Books & Manuscripts auction on 26 March featured a magnificently illustrated work on the flora and fauna of Surinam by Sybille Merian, which nearly doubled its presale estimate at CHF 132,000, and a lavishly illustrated botanical treatise by Johann Simon Kerner sold for six times its estimate at CHF 72,000.

A fine bronze of Napoleon on horseback by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonnier sold for CHF 180,000 in the Furniture auction on 28 March, and a pen-and-ink drawing by Hans Weiditz the Younger depicting pair of dice-playing vagabonds being chided by a passing peasant couple realised CHF 120,000 in the 29 March Old Master Drawings sale.










Today's News

April 5, 2019

Daring new Bauhaus museum challenges far right

Eli Wilner & Company to be honored by the Historic Charleston Foundation for its work in frame conservation

'Henry Moore: The Shape of Things' exhibition now open at Christie's London

London exhibition celebrates mini-skirt pioneer Mary Quant

Thousands-year-old Egypt sarcophagus to be opened on live TV

Gagosian announces the representation of Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Christie's announces 'Icons of Glamour & Style: The Leon Constantiner Collection'

Koller's Old Master and 19th Century Paintings auctions achieve 100% sell through rates

Julien's Auctions announces Music Icons: Property From The Collection of Slash and Perla Hudson

'American Embassy' by Ayman Baalbaki leads Bonhams Middle Eastern Art Sale

Heathrow Terminal 5 exhibits skeleton of new species of dinosaur

Christie's announces highlights included in the Rare Watches Auction

LX opens second exhibition curated by Lisa Cooley

Napoleon love letters to Josephine go for over 500,000 euro

To Know Herself presents new work by Tammy Rae Carland and iconic Macon Reed installation

Lisa Oppenheim creates a new body of work for her third exhibition at the Approach

Exhibition offers a personal and singular thirty-year record of an activist artist living with HIV

Exhibition at Design Museum Gent displays designer Daniela Dossi's study of headgear

Weapons, pottery lead Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art Auction

Christie's announces two-day sale of Prints and Multiples taking place over four sessions

Heaven sent: Taiwan honours dead with lavish paper models

Deified as the voice of his generation, Kurt Cobain lives

Christie's April Photograph Auctions total $6.9 million

Weiss Berlin opens an exhibition of works by Evan Nesbit

The Royal Palace of Caserta and the Terracotta Army




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful