'Brian Sewell: Critic & Collector' sale realises $4,852,483 selling 90% by lot
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'Brian Sewell: Critic & Collector' sale realises $4,852,483 selling 90% by lot
Four artist records at auction achieved. © Christie’s Images Limited 2016.



LONDON.- Taking place at Christie’s on 27 September 2016, Brian Sewell: Critic & Collector saw spirited bidding in an exceptionally crowded saleroom with attendance from collectors, friends and admirers of the renowned art critic, award-winning journalist and author, and former specialist at Christie’s. The auction achieved £3,741,313 / $4,852,483 / €4,306,251 for over 200 lots that reflected the personal tastes of Brian Sewell, selling 90% by lot. The results demonstrated international appreciation for the passion Sewell had for collecting throughout his life with registered bidders from 32 countries across 4 continents.

Standing as testament to the discerning eye of Brian Sewell, the exceptionally modelled Dido reclining, asleep by Daniele da Volterra (1509-66) led the sale and realised more than five times its estimate of £150,000 to set a world record at auction for the artist of £797,000 / $1,033,709 / €917,347. The earliest drawing in the collection, Design for a bench in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, of around 1527, by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536) saw determined bidding achieve a world auction record of £353,000 / $457,841 / €406,303. Works in the Old Master Drawings category continued to be in strong demand, realising the artist record at auction for the Florentine Agostino Ciampelli, another of the major discoveries in Brian Sewell’s collection, which sold for £118,750 / $154,019 / €136,681 (estimate: £20,000-30,000).

A bozzetto by Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661) Madonna and Child with Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Cosmos and Damian more than doubled its estimate to sell for £233,000 / $302,201 / €268,183, also a world record for the artist at auction. Seated male nude by James Barry (1741-1806) set a record for a drawing by the artist, selling for £87,500 / $113,488 / €100,713. One of the collector’s notable finds, a meticulously drawn view of the Schmadribach Waterfall near Lauterbrunnen, by Joseph Anton Koch (17681839) realised £68,750 / $89,169 / €79,131 against an estimate of £20,000-30,000. Recently identified by Christie’s Man’s head in profile by the Spaniard Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) soared above its high estimate of £8,000 to £27,500 / $35,668 / €31,653. Saint Jerome, a painting bought at auction by Sewell who recognised it to be by the Flemish painter Matthias Stomer, doubled its low estimate to sell online for £365,000 / $473,405 / €420,115. The group of twelve paintings by Sewell’s friend Eliot Hodgkin were particularly sought after, with Twelve Pheasant Eggs (£47,500 / $61,608 / €54,673) doubling its low estimate of £20,000. John Craxton’s Study of a seated young man achieved ten times its low estimate of £3,000 to achieve £30,000 / $38,910 / €34,530 while Duncan Grant’s Chrysanthemums in a Jar, Charleston (recto) and Reclining Male Nude (verso) achieved £56,250 / $72,956 / €64,744, more than double its low estimate of £20,000.

Noël Annesley, Honorary Chairman, Christie’s UK: “The results achieved at Christie’s for the collection of my esteemed former colleague and mentor Brian Sewell gave particular pleasure. They demonstrated the appeal to today’s collectors of the extraordinary wide range of pictures and drawings from all periods which he had selected during a lifetime’s devotion to art. It was a celebration of a remarkable eye and a wide sensibility.”










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