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Gauguin on a Run at Sotheby's

March 30, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Sotheby’s sold some Gauguin prints in London today at prices that confirm the run that began in June of last year when a monotype doubled the estimate to make €312,750. That turns out be a conservative number compared to this record-setting work:

Ten prints by Paul Gauguin from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, sold for £1.54 million ($2.47 million), almost four times the pre-sale low estimate for the group. A new auction record for a print by Paul Gauguin was achieved when Crouching Tahitian Woman Seen From The Back sold for £577,250 ($924,466), over three times the estimate (£180,000-220,000). 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.

If that’s not enough action, Sotheby’s announced this week that its New York May sale would contain this rarity:

Jeune tahitienne is an exquisite sculpture carved during Paul Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti between 1890 and 1893 (est. $10/15 million*). As the only fully-worked bust portrait that Gauguin is known to have created, it is unique within his oeuvre, and numbers among the artist’s finest sculptures in private hands.

 

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