DELVAUX AND VAN GOGH DELIGHT AT BONHAMS 20TH/21ST CENTURY ART WEEK IN LONDON
ALFRED SISLEY (1839-1899) Matinée d'octobre près de Port-Marly (Painted circa 1876) Estimates £250,000 - 350,000
DELVAUX AND VAN GOGH DELIGHT AT BONHAMS 20TH/21ST CENTURY ART WEEK IN LONDON
London – Bonhams 20th/21st Century Art Week auctions concluded today (Friday 11 October) at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The top lot of the week was L’Orage by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), which sold for £1,318,900 at Bonhams first 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale in London, which took place on Thursday 10 October.
The sales continued today with day sales of Post-War and Contemporary Art and Impressionist and Modern Art. The three sales made a total of £9.1 million.
Ralph Taylor, Bonhams Global Head of 20th and 21st Century Art, commented: “Sales this week provided strong results and hammer for 20th /21st C is up 83% year on year. Having also recently appointed fantastic new members to our team at Bonhams, we’re excited for what the future will bring and London's resilience as a pillar of the art world.”
Hannah Noel-Smith, Bonhams Head of Impressionist and Modern Art department, commented: “It is no surprise that the exceptional works for Delvaux and Van Gogh came out on top in these sales. Both were impressive examples and an asset to any collection.”
Other highlights of the 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale included:
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Sien's mother's house seen from the back yard. Sold for £1,137,400.
Sien's mother's house seen from the back yard by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Executed in May 1882, only a year after he first took up painting and before he moved to Paris in 1886. Sold for £1,137,400.
Cantilever by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), which was executed in 1973, sold for £1,028,500. A native of Pennsylvania, Calder was born into a family of sculptors. His first solo show was held in Paris in 1927 while he was still in his twenties; he would soon become one of America's most lauded and prolific artists. It was Marcel Duchamp who first dubbed Calder's kinetic wire sculptures "mobiles," - these hanging, interactive pieces would come to define the artist's legacy.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Cantilever. Sold for £1,028,500
Catherine Lampert Seated by Frank Auerbach (B. 1931). Sold for £483,000.
Personnages by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Sold for £508,400.
Highlights from the Post-War & Contemporary sale included:
Fernando Botero (1932-2023) Maternidad. 47 x 19.5 x 32cm (18 1/2 x 7 11/16 x 12 5/8in). (Conceived in 1955, in an edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proof). Sold for £254,400.
Yayoi Kusama (B. 1929), Infinity Nets (Painted in 1990). Sold for £108,350.
Ron Gorchov (1930-2020), Lake. Sold for £127,400.
Highlights from the Impressionist and Modern Art sale included:
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Baigneuse. Sold for £533,800.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle. Sold for £330,600.
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Matinée d'octobre près de Port-Marly. Sold for £279,800.
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In 2023, Bonhams achieved 14% growth with $1.14 billion in turnover. Recent important auctions and landmark single-owner collections, include the white glove sales of Sir Michael Caine: The Personal Collection, Alain Delon: Sixty Years of Passion; Sir Roger Moore: The Personal Collection; Personal Property of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and The Robert & Jean-Pierre Rousset Collection of Asian Art: A Century of Collecting. Other notable single-owner sales included The Estate of Barbara Walters: American Icon; The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; The Crown Auction: Props and Costumes and The Claude de Marteau Collection.
Top lots for 2023 include 1967 Ferrari 412P Berlinetta, Sold at Quail Lodge, US for US$30,255,000. Tipu Sultan’s Bedchamber Sword (sold in London for £14m – a world record for both an Islamic and an Indian object); Paul Signac (1863-1935), Sisteron, 1902. Sold for US$8,580,000 (estimate US$4-6 million), and Claude Monet (1840-1926), La Seine près de Giverny, 1888. Sold for US$6,352,500 (estimate US$4-6m), both from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection; A Gilt Copper Alloy figure of Virupaksha, Central Tibet, Densatil Monastery, Early 15th century. Sold for HK$37.9m (£4,060,326) in Hong Kong. Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) Three Stars. Sold for HK$36,754,000 (£3,930,914, also in Hong Kong.
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