George Stubbs
Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey
executed in 1765
oil on canvas, 101.6 x 193.6 cm. (40in. x 76¼in.)
Masterpiece by George Stubbs for sale at Christie’s ‘Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey’ by George Stubbs (1724-1806) might sell for more than £20 million at Christie’s auction of Old Master and British Paintings on 5 July 2011 in London]]>
June 5th 2011, source: Christie’s / theartwolf
“Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey” has all you can expect from the greatest British 18th century paintings, and it comes from the Woolavington Collection, one of the finest private collections of Sporting Art. Richard Knight, co-head of Old Master and 19th Century Art at Christie’s, hopes that Stubbs could “join a small and select group who represent the most valuable old master artists ever sold”.
Stubbs is, without a doubt, one of the great horse painters of all time, and maybe the greatest ever. But Stubbs also painted lions, tigers, monkeys and even rhinoceroses. In a press note, Christie’s says that Stubbs “is often celebrated as the greatest artist-scientist since Leonardo”.
Auction record for Stubbs is £10,121,250 ($15,906,556 / €12,096,885), achieved by “Brood Mares and Foal” -painted in 1767- at Sotheby’s London, on December 8th 2010. In 1999, “Whistlejacket”, which many consider Stubb’s greatest masterpiece, was purchased by the National Gallery of London for £11 million in a private deal with the Rockingham family. The price on the open market would have been much higher.
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