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Christie’s Strong Amsterdam Contemporary Sales Validate Venue

May 1, 2017 by Marion Maneker

This analysis of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary art sale in Amsterdam on April 11 is available to AMMpro subscribers. Subscribers get the first month free on monthly subscriptions. Feel free to cancel at any time before the month is up. Sign up for AMMpro here.

You may have heard the announcements recently that Christie’s is retrenching its European sale rooms with the closing of South Kensington in London and the consolidation of operations in Amsterdam. But one thing that isn’t happening in Amsterdam is the elimination of the Contemporary art sales there. The results of the April 11 sale were a powerful reminder that there remains an appetite for Contemporary art at middle market prices and for artists who have regional appeal.

Christie’s Amsterdam Post-War and Contemporary sale made €7.733m with 90% of the lots sold. More compelling than that sell-through was the 60% of lots that were sold above their high estimates. The aggregate low estimate of the entire sale was €3.7m but the aggregate hammer total of €6.274m pushed the hammer ratio for the entire sale to 1.7m, a very healthy number. Continue Reading

Christie's Amsterdam Surprise

April 13, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Christie’s Old Master sale in London contained this surprise sale of which made €673,000 against an €200,000 high estimate: Barend Cornelis Koekkoek‘s A wooded landscape with a herdsman and his cattle resting under an oak tree.

Ex-Sotheby's, Six Sets Up Shop

March 22, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Susan Moore offers a look in the Financial Times at the Jan Six XI, formerly of Sotheby’s Amsterdam, who has set up his own firm in Amsterdam and forged an association with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox:

Growing up in a great museum of a home was, according to Six, a strange but remarkably grounded experience. His parents took the decision to have something akin to a normal life by arranging family rooms on the ground floor of the 58-room mansion, so that no one needed to walk through the great period rooms on a daily basis. Upstairs on the bel-étage was the family collection of some 100,000 works of art – paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries, furniture, books, silver, ceramics – amassed over the centuries by 10 previous generations of Jan Sixes. “Almost nothing left the family,” he explains:Continue Reading

Peter Stuyvesant Collection Soars at Sotheby's

March 8, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The Dutch sale of the Peter Stuyvesant Collection made €13,590,475 or $18,597,750 with 157 out of 161 lots sold or a 97.5% sell-through. According to Sotheby’s press release: “Presale interest had been huge and more than 500 clients had registered to bid in tonight’s sale – either in person, by phone or by leaving absentee bids.”