NEW YORK (Reuters) – a Madonna with child painting sold for a record 6.7 million dollar Thursday, an old Master works of Alonso who saw particularly strong prices for works themed religious 450-year-old.
"A sacred conversation: the Madonna col bambino e Santi Luca e Caterina d'alessandria" Renaissance master Tiziano was higher priced work during a week of sales of the old master of Sotheby's and Christie's rival, carrying a hefty $ 15 to $ 20 million.
About 1560, oil on canvas, one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by Tiziano remaining in private hands, went to a European collector offers on your phone. The final price was $16,882, 500 including the Commission.
Sotheby's officials said they were "happy" with the results of the session, in which 75 percent of the lots on offer found buyers.
George Wachter, co-Chairman of Old Master paintings, quoted prices record achieved by Titian and another half a dozen artists.
"Interest came from all over the world and around the camp, trade, private collectors and institutions," he said. "Clearly, this is a very strong market, in particular for the masterpieces '.
The work of the Venetian school was more important to hit the auction block in two decades, Titian and had not been seen in public in 30 years, until recent exhibitions in Paris, London and Amsterdam.
It has only changed hands six times during his life of four and a half century, said Alonso.
The price easily surpassed the record of the artist's auction of 13.6 million and went away to the total of us $ 78.6 million, which exceeded the high estimate of $ 74 million for the first session of the two parts of Thursday. Barrichello taking various old master auctions during the week, including two important private collections.
Wednesday-session two old masters sale Christie totaled $ 36.6 million, low estimate just shy of the 38.6 million. A record was set for Luca Carlevarijs when "View of the pier, Venice, looking West ' sold for over $ 4 million.
Other highlights of Sotheby Thursday including "Adam and Eve" by Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael oil on copper, which rose to $ 6.24 million and depiction of Perino del Vaga in the Holy family with the infant St John the Baptist, which went for $ 2.1 million. Everyone had more bidders, sold for approximately six times the pre-sale estimates and set record as an artist.
Work of Vague was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Grand View of Claude Joseph Vernet, of the Enriched Sea Shore with buildings, dispatch and figure" retrieved 7 million dollars, against a high estimate only 2 million.
Giampeitrino oil on paper of the Virgin and child from a window, the "Madonna of the cherries," sold for $ 2.7 million, more than tripling the high estimate of $ 900,000, while representation of Dou of an old woman sitting by a window of his spinning wheel set a record when it is sold for more than 5.4 million, more than double the prediction.
While the art market with a strong recovery year grouped as the financial sector after the crisis of 2008 and the global recession, the category of the old master has not improved since 2009.
Art search technology that uses quantitative methods to analyse the art market, has found that rates of sales-through inched, but gross of the sector fell three per cent.
But in particular saw strong price Predicting and high total sales this week.
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