Last week in Dallas, Heritage sold $1.2m in European art, the bulk of which was a Henri Martin landscape that made $485k:
Henri Martin’s majestic landscape, La vallée du vert à Labastide-du-Vert, circa 1920, sold for $485,000; Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky’s romantic marine painting, French Ships Departing the Black Sea, 1871, sold for $125,000; Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, L’Anglaise, circa 1968, sold for $81,250 – more than double its pre-auction estimate – following interest from eight bidders.
Several Edouard-Léon Cortès Parisian Streetscapes: Rue de Lyon, Bastille sold for $50,000; Place Saint-Michel, $25,000; Place de la Republique, $22,500; and Avenue de l’Opéra sous la pluie, circa 1950-55, $17,500.
