Rembrandt: “Self-portrait, wearing a ruff and black hat”, 1632
Miró, Rembrandt lead Sotheby’s cross-category auction On July 28th 2020, Sotheby’s live streamed cross-category evening sale realised a total of £150 million / $193 million / €164.6 million, led by Joan Miró’s £22.3m / $28.7m / €24.5 million ‘Peinture’ and Rembrandt’s £14.5 million / $18.7 million / €16 million ‘Self-portrait’.]]>
July 30, 2020, source: Sotheby’s
In its first auction appearance since 1966, JOAN MIRÓ’s 1927 “Femme au chapeau rouge” set the top price for any work sold at auction in Europe this season, selling for £22.3 million / $28.7 million / €24.5 million (est. £20-30 million) after an 11-minute bidding battle. Having once belonged to fellow artist and friend Alexander Calder, the painting had not been seen publicly in decades. From a little-known family collection of Avant-Garde works, ALBERTO GIACOMETTI’s bronze “Femme debout” doubled its estimate, achieving £10.7 million / $13.7 million / €11.7 million (est. £4-6 million) in its auction debut.
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN’s 1632 Self-portrait of the artist sold for £14.5 million / $18.7 million / €16 million (est. £12-16 million) – a new auction high for a self-portrait by the artist [eclipsing the £6.9 million achieved at Sotheby’s in 2003 for “Self-portrait with shaded eyes”]
Of extreme rarity, and the only representative work by PAOLO UCCELLO to appear at auction in living memory, “Battle on the banks of a river” saw bidding from specialists in every category represented, driving the final price to a record-breaking £2.4 million / $3.1 million / €2.7 million (est. £600,000-800,000)
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