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MANY NEW AUCTION RECORDS SET AT DOYLE NEW YORK'S NOVEMBER 6, 2007 AUCTION OF OLD MASTER, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTS
Competitive Bidding Drives Strong Prices for European, American and Contemporary Prints
On November 6, 2007 Doyle New York held another successful Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints auction. 93 percent of the items offered were sold, and many new auction records were set.
Old Master prints featured a very good, warm impression of Durer's The Virgin and Child Crowned by One Angel, engraving, 1520, which sold for $10,000, and a very good impression of Rembrandt's Cottage Beside a Canal: A View of Diemen, etching, circa 1645, which reached $11,250.
The 19th century and Modern European prints were highlighted by a selection of prints and ceramics by Pablo Picasso, with examples from various periods of his work, dating from 1905-1971, including Francoise au Noeud dans les Cheveux, lithograph, 1946, which achieved $59,375; Buste de Femme a la Queue de Cheval: Jacqueline, aquatint and drypoint, 1955, $34,375 and Le Peintre et Son Modele, linocut, 1965, which fetched a record $21,250. This section also featured James-Jacques Tissot, Promenade dans la Neige, etching and drypoint, 1880, which brought $11,250; Pierre-August Renoir, L'Enfant au Biscuit, color lithograph, 1899, $10,625; Paul Cesar Helleu, Helen Helleu, drypoint, a record $5,000; Lyonel Feininger, Das Tor, etching and drypoint, 1912, a record $17,500; Frederick L. Griggs, The Almonry, etching, 1925, a record $5,000; and Marc Chagall, We Live Among the Flowers..., color lithograph, 1967, $22,500.
American prints included James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Upright Venice, etching, 1879-80, which fetched a record $16,250; Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, etching, 1921, $28,750; Reginald Marsh, East 10th Street Jungle, etching, 1934, a record $5,312; Milton Avery, Strange Bird, woodcut, 1953, a record $3,750; and Thomas Hart Benton, Running Horses, lithograph, 1955, a record $6,250.
Latin American prints featured several color lithographs by Rufino Tamayo, including Pasteque #1, 1969, which brought a record $4,687, and Miquel Angel Asturias, complete portfolio of six prints, 1974, $10,000.
The Contemporary prints section was highlighted by Yozo Hamaguchi, Roofs of Paris, color mezzotint, 1956, which sold for $18,750; Willem de Kooning, Revenge, etching and aquatint, 1960, a record $6,250; three rare early etchings by Brice Marden, 1962-63, $9,375; Andy Warhol, Flowers, color offset lithograph, 1964, $21,250; two color screenprints on Plexiglas by Bridget Riley, Fragment 3 and Fragment 6, 1965, record prices of $21,250 and $25,000, respectively; Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint II, color monotype, 1981, a record $21,250; Richard Estes, Urban Landscapes III, set of eight color screenprints, 1981, $10,000; Tom Wesselmann, Monica with Tulips, color screenprint, 1989, $11,250; and Robert Motherwell, Delos, color lithograph, 1991, a record $12,500.
AUCTION
April 30, 2008
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