Gauguin's Crouching Tahitan Woman (click on image to enlarge)
There was a new world auction record for a print by Paul Gauguin at Sotheby’s in London today. Gauguin’s Crouching Tahitian Woman Seen From The Back sold for £577,250, more than three times the low estimate of £180,000.
The traced monotype, or ‘printed drawing’, was fiercely contested by a number of determined bidders, finally selling to a private collector on the telephone after a five-minute battle.
Ten prints by Gauguin from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, sold for £1.54 million, almost four times the pre-sale low estimate for the group.
A pair of woodcuts by Albrecht Durer who is widely considered the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance, A Map of the Northern Sky and A Map of the Southern Sky, sold for £361,250.
See antiquesandartireland.com post for March 22.
