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Masterpiece Sales Report

July 5, 2012 by Marion Maneker

Solid sales information has been hard to come by from Masterpiece in London this week but Bloomberg’s Scott Reyburn got these:
  • Sladmore Gallery sold a bronze of “The Kiss,” cast during Rodin’s lifetime, to a Swiss collector for $2 million.
  • A Middle East client bought a pair of earrings by the Parisian jeweler JAR from Symbolic & Chase for $500,000.
  • A hand-signed 1895 lithograph of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — one of just 26 made — is being offered by the Oslo- based dealer Kaare Berntsen, priced at 1.7 million pounds
Colin Gleadell has some receipts too:
  • a Bachelor’s chest from Houghton Hall sold by Apter Fredericks to an American priced at £450,000
  • a painting by Chinese abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki, sold by Aktis Gallery, priced in the region of £750,000
  • a marble carving of The Kiss by Rodin, sold by the Sladmore Gallery for around $2 million
  • an ancient Egyptian statue priced at £1 million from Sycamore Ancient Art
  • and a pair of diamond and emerald earrings and a pearl and diamond necklace from Symbolic and Chase, sold for over £1 million.
Masterpiece’s PR firm sent out these:
  • A pair of Robert Adam benches made for Kenwood House which will be returned to the stately home as part of its current restoration project (Godson & Coles)
  • A large-scale Kees van Dongen painting (Dickinson, who sold 12 paintings in total)
  • 12 individual large-scale Copeland-Spode plaques depicting sporting scenes made in 1876-1877 (Robert Young)
  • An oil painting by George Romney (1734-1802) ‘Portrait of a mother and child’, 1771, to private American collector (Philip Mould)
  • A writing desk from Carlton House sold to an English couple for in excess of £100,000 (Mallett)
  • Francis Bacon, Second Version of Triptych, lithograph, 1944, to a new British client, asking price £48,000(Sims Reed)
  • An important 18th-century red lacquer bachelor’s chest and a pair of George III parquetry commodes attributed to Pierre Langlois, c.1770 (Apter-Fredericks)
  •  An extremely rare large wooden statue of a high-ranking Egyptian official, 2570-2350BC sold for £1 million (Sycomore Ancient Art)
  • Rodin, The Kiss, cast in the artist’s lifetime (Sladmore Gallery)
  • A pair of diamond and emerald  JAR earrings and a pearl and diamond necklace for over £1 million (Symbolic & Chase)
  • Cartier brooch for £320,000 (Siegelson)
  • Three extremely rare Thomas Tompion clocks (Carter Wright)
  • An early 19th-century Italian inlaid marble centre table to a European collector for around £150,000 (Tomasso Brothers)

Asian New Money Fights Russia, Constable Tops $133 Million Sale (Bloomberg)

Market news: Picasso ceramics sell well, while the third leg of London’s summer auctions gets under way (Telegraph)

 

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