{"id":22766,"date":"2015-12-22T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=22766"},"modified":"2019-02-28T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:40:20","slug":"old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows-mostly-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/12\/old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows-mostly-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Masters hit highs and lows &#8212; mostly lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Gleadell reviews the recent series of Old Master sales that took placed in London. \u00a0Like many other auctions featuring\u00a0&#8216;older&#8217; periods of art, these were\u00a0plagued by the fact that very few great works were\u00a0being offered and, at times, works carried very robust estimates. \u00a0Over the past few years the results from this same series of sales have dwindled;\u00a0the 2015 total was a little over\u00a0\u00a350M, while the 2014 total\u00a0was\u00a0\u00a379M. \u00a0For Gleadell&#8217;s full report, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/luxury\/art\/95016\/art-sales-old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/luxury\/art\/95016\/art-sales-old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hoffmann.jpg\" alt=\"Hoffmann\" width=\"309\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hans Hoffmann<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Gleadell reviews the recent series of Old Master sales that took placed in London. \u00a0Like many other auctions featuring\u00a0&#8216;older&#8217; periods of art, these were\u00a0plagued by the fact that very few great works were\u00a0being offered and, at times, works carried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/12\/old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows-mostly-lows\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,58,9],"class_list":["post-22766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-auction-results","tag-old-masters","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Old Masters hit highs and lows - mostly lows - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/12\/old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows-mostly-lows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Old Masters hit highs and lows -- mostly lows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colin Gleadell reviews the recent series of Old Master sales that took placed in London. \u00a0Like many other auctions featuring\u00a0&#8216;older&#8217; periods of art, these were\u00a0plagued by the fact that very few great works were\u00a0being offered and, at times, works carried &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/12\/old-masters-hit-highs-and-lows-mostly-lows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-22T13:12:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-03-01T03:40:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Hoffmann.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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