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27 September 2016

RESULTS | Brian Sewell Auction – Critic & Collector - London, 27 September 2016

London EMEA 27 September 2016

 

Brian Sewell Auction – Critic & Collector

London, Tuesday 27 September 2016, Sale 13731  

 [All sold prices include buyer’s premium]

 

224 lots sold

Total: £3,741,313 / $4,852,483 / €4,306,251

     90% sold by lot

248 lots offered

$1.297= £1 / €1.151= £1

   85% sold by value

Lot  

Description

Estimate (£)

Price Realised

Buyer

7

Daniele Ricciarelli, called Daniele da Volterra (Volterra 1509-1566), Dido reclining, asleep

100,000 - 150,000

£797,000

$1,033,709

€917,347

Anonymous

117

Matthias Stomer (Amersfoort c. 1600-after 1652 Sicily or Northern Italy), Saint Jerome

100,000 - 150,000

£365,000

$473,405

€420,115

Anonymous

12

Baldassare Peruzzi (Ancaiano 1481-1536 Rome), Design for a bench: the five niches containing figures of ancient heroes: (left to right): A young hero, Marcus Atilius Regulus, Hercules, Lucius Junius Brutus and another hero (possibly Julius Caesar)

    100,000 - 150,000

£353,000

$457,841

€406,303

Anonymous

108

Andrea Sacchi (Nettuno, near Rome 1599-1661 Rome), The Madonna and Child with Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Cosmas and Damian - a bozzetto

50,000 - 80,000

£233,000

$302,201

€268,183

Anonymous

13

Agostino Ciampelli (Florence 1565-1630 Rome), A soldier carrying a ladder, and a subsidiary study of a man holding a torch (recto); Faint fragmentary study (verso)

20,000 - 30,000

£118,750

$154,019

€136,681

Anonymous

78

James Barry, R.A. (Cork 1741-1806 London), Seated male nude

20,000 - 30,000

£87,500

$113,488

€100,713

Anonymous

60

Joseph Anton Koch (Elbigenalp 1768-1839 Rome), The Schmadribach Waterfall near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (recto); A faint sketch of a mountainous landscape (verso)

20,000 - 30,000

£68,750

$89,169

€79,131

Anonymous

132

John Hoppner, R.A. (London 1758-1810), Cupid and Psyche

12,000 - 18,000

£56,250

$72,956

€64,744

Anonymous

214

Duncan Grant (Rothiemurchus 1885-1978 Aldermaston), Chrysanthemums in a vase, Charleston

20,000 - 30,000

£56,250

$72,956

€64,744

Anonymous

236

 

John Craxton, R.A. (London 1922-2009), Lucian Freud

50,000 - 80,000

£50,000

$64,850

€57,550

Anonymous

       

 

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Estimates do not include buyer’s premium.

Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, third-party financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.

 

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* Please note when quoting estimates above that other fees will apply in addition to the hammer price - see Section D of the Conditions of Sale at the back of the sale catalogue. *Estimates do not include buyer’s premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium.