One of the greatest collections of Tiffany and prewar design to appear at auction will come up at Sotheby’s in New York on May 19. The sale of the Warshawsky collection, assembled by the Chicago based Ray Warshawsky from the late 1960’s to the early 1990’s, features works of rich quality and luminosity of colour. He assembled an encyclopedic collection of Tiffany which spans every artistic discipline of the firms production.
UPDATE: The Collection totalled $7,951,125 with 98.6% of all lots sold. Fierce demand for the collection’s many treasures drove more than three-quarters of all 138 lots on offer to exceed their pre-sale high estimates.
Tiffany Studios – Elaborate Peony Lamp c1910 ($600,000-900,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Tiffany Studios River of Life Window, (1915) ($200,000-300,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $394,000