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Lot by Lot: Christie's OM & 19th C

January 27, 2010 by Marion Maneker

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Lucas Cranach, Bacchus at the Wine Vat ($2.5-3.5m)Lot 1: Fiorentino Madonna & Child with a Goldfinch makes high est. mark $240k

Lot 2: Lippi Christ on the Cross tops est. at $100k

Lot 3: Granacci sells very low at $300k against $500k low est.

Lot 4: Antwerp Adoration triptych passes at $650k

Lot 5: St. John the Evangelist struggles to get to $85k and passes.

Lot 6: Cranach, Bacchus at the Wine Vat stalls out at $2.1m and passes.

Lot 7: Cranach, Judith and Holofernes, Cranach lovers are clearly out there because this small painting is getting the bids and marching over the high est. of $700k to sell for $720k hammer.

Lot 8: Passes at $190k

Lot 9: van Veerendael Still life of flowers sells for the low est. of $300k

Lot 10: Breughel The Four Elements climbs toward the low estimate of $2m but can only make $1.9m but sells.

Lot 11: attributed to Testa An Allegory of Autumn chugs right past the high est. to grab $350k as a final bid.

Lot 12: Empoli, Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel passes at $170k

Lot 13: Bassano The Circumcision passes at $120k

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CarracciLot 14: Carracci, The Vision of St. Francis opens with commission bid at $280k and sprints right past the high est. to make $700k.

Lot 15: landscape passes at $170k against $300k low est.

Lot 16: Giordano, Triumph of Bacchus passes at $380k

Lot 17: Passes at $180k

Lot 18: Passes at $70k

Lot 19: ter Brugghen Mocking of Christ gets to $620k but can’t make the $800k low est.–passes

Lot 20: Georges de la Tour studio Young Boy goes above $80k high est. for $85k

Lot 21: Bloemaert Two Boys Singing passes just below the low at $400k

Lot 22: Jan Steen A Village Wedding sells for $300k (low est.)

Lot 23: Jacob Duck Allegory of Faith several bidders get it up to $450k

Lot 24: van Beyeren Pronk still life passes at $420k against $600k low est.

Lot 25: Frans Snyders Fruit in a Tazza passes painfully at $380k against $400k low est.

Lot 26: Vrancx The Four Seasons commission bidder takes it to $280k, almost the high est.

Gandolfini, Diana and Callisto ($800k-$1.2m)Lot 27: Breughel Animals into Noah’s Ark there are bidders to $2.5m and it sells there.

Lot 28: Rubens Alexander and Roxana sells for $450

Lot 29: Gandolfi Diana & Callisto makes the est. range easily with new bidder coming in at $950k; then pushing to $1.5m where bids start getting chopped with a new bidder at $1.65m; but still going over $2m; still coaxing bids into $100k increments. Now picking up pace to $3m. Two bidders still at it in the $3m range. Lot found in a South Carolina nursing home sells for $3.6m that’s three times the high est.

Lot 30: Carlevarijs View of Piazza San Marco gains steam after the $1m mark before selling at $1.6m

Lot 31: Oudry The Watchful Doe sells for $900k

Lot 32: Hubert sells for $200k

Lot 33: Hubert Pont sur le Torrent only gets to $1.6m and passes.

Lot 34: Boucher drawing sells below low est. at $130k hammer

Lot 35: Fragonard drawing makes $280k just below low est. but sells.

Louis Leopold Boilly, Entrance to the Turkish Garden Cafe ($3-5m)
Louis Leopold Boilly, Entrance to the Turkish Garden Cafe ($3-5m)

Lot 36: Pater Fete Galante passes at $310k

Lot 37: Boilly Turkish Garden Cafe starts quite low in the $1m range but motors up to the low est. of $3m to sell for $4m

Lot 38: Koekkoek Skaters on a Waterway cracks the $300k high est.

Lot 39: Corot L’Etoile du Berger stalls out at $1m and passes.

Lot 40: Grimshaw November $380k

Lot 41: Corot Ville d’Avray makes $280k

Lot 42: Israels In Grandfather’s Arms passes at $85k

Lot 43: Harlamoff The Little Mother passes very close at $560k

Lot 44: Sorbi The Huntsmen’s Lunch sells for $22ok

Lot 45: Bouguereau Amour Voltigeant can’t quite get to the $500k low est. and passes at $400k

Lot 46: Madrazo Portrait of Aline Mason sells for $180k

Lot 47: Raffaelli Elegante sur le boulevard sells below the $300k est. for $260k

Lot 48: Circle of Robert Peake passes at $60k

Lot 49: Circle or Robert Peake passes at $48k

Lot 50: Circle or Robert Peake passes at $50k

Lot 51: van Ceulen Portraits sells for $150k against $200 est.

Lot 52: Willaerts Embarkation of the Elector Palantine passes at $120k

Lot 53: Joli passes at $190k

Lot 54: Panini View of Piazza del Popolo sells for $1m above the $800k high est.

William Orpen, In Dublin Bay ($700k-$1m)Lot 55: Joseph Wright of Derby Study of an Old Man sells for $130k

Lot 56: Gainsborough Landscape passes at $1.7m against $2m

Lot 57: Palmer Sleeping Shepherd slow bidding at $2m but passes excruciatingly at $2.3m

Lot 58: Orpen In Dublin Bay climbs to the high est. of $1m and makes $1.15m

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