{"id":55662,"date":"2024-12-04T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=55662"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:49:37","slug":"christies-london-old-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/12\/christies-london-old-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s London Old Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55663\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55663\" class=\"wp-image-55663\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a white horse with a red saddle blanket against a dark landscape.\" width=\"211\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-1292x1536.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_001sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059-1722x2048.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An Andalusian Horse<\/em> by Sir Anthony van Dyck<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the week of blockbuster end-of-year sales in New York, many of the main auction houses will host their Old Masters and nineteenth-century sales. Christie\u2019s kicked things off with their Tuesday evening sale in London, which, by Old Masters standards, surpassed\u00a0 everyone\u2019s expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The predicted top lots performed more or less as expected. The <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">star of the show<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Tuesday was Sir Anthony van Dyck\u2019s <em>An Andalusian Horse<\/em>, a large painting of a white horse with a red saddle blanket. It is one of his early paintings, created at age 22, shortly before he would leave his home city of Antwerp for the first time to visit London. Christie\u2019s specialists called the work \u201cthe artist\u2019s first independent grand-scale depiction of a horse\u201d. Van Dyck likely created it as a study for <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d2\/Anthony_van_Dyck-_Portrait_of_Charles_V_on_Horseback.JPG\/503px-Anthony_van_Dyck-_Portrait_of_Charles_V_on_Horseback.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">an eventual equestrian portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, which now hangs in the Uffizi Gallery. While that itself would make a fine painting, the Van Dyck is two paintings in one. On the other side of the canvas, Van Dyke made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/img\/LotImages\/2024\/CKS\/2024_CKS_22691_0007_002(sir_anthony_van_dyck_an_andalusian_horse_a_wooded_landscape_8211_a_ske051059).jpg?mode=max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a loose preparatory drawing for a wooded landscape<\/a>. The painting last sold at Christie\u2019s in 2000 for \u00a3773.8K w\/p. Christie\u2019s expected it would do far better this time around, assigning it a \u00a32 million to \u00a33 million estimate. The hammer came down within that estimate at \u00a32.8 million \/ $3.5 million (or \u00a33.4 million \/ $4.3 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55664\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8385.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55664\" class=\"wp-image-55664 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8385-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"A scene of actors in the same outfits, with a hunchback, large nose, and tall white hat, shaming and mocking one of their colleagues seated on a treestump.\" width=\"272\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8385-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8385.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Guilty Punchinello<\/em> by Giambattista Tiepolo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Next up was Giambattista Tiepolo\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Guilty Punchinello<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, one of only two paintings by the artist to feature the popular European commedia dell\u2019arte stock character. Punchinello is more often associated with the work of the artist\u2019s son, Gian Domenico Tiepolo. The other painting featuring Punchinello, which currently belongs to the collection at Leeds Castle, shows the same\u00a0 <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">figures,<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a group of men in Punchinello costumes, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterdrucke.us\/kunstwerke\/1260px\/Giovanni%20Battista%20Tiepolo%20-%20The%20Punchinellos%20Kitchen%20%20-%20%28MeisterDrucke-301475%29.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">cooking something in a pot and getting ready to eat<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The painting offered at Christie\u2019s shows the figures at a later time, where they are shaming and mocking one of their colleagues for stealing and eating all the food. Its appearance at Christie\u2019s on Tuesday marked the first time since 1934 that the painting had become available on the market. For all this time, it has been in the collection of the Mortier family, the descendants of one of Napoleon\u2019s generals. With a pre-sale estimate of \u00a31 million to \u00a31.5 million, the Tiepolo eventually achieved \u00a32 million \/ $2.5 million (or \u00a32.4 million \/ $3.1 million w\/p). Following the sale&#8217;s conclusion, the Louvre was revealed as the painting&#8217;s buyer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And then, finally, in third place was Pieter Brueghel the Younger\u2019s <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sermon of Saint John the Baptist<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It is one of the artist\u2019s most prominent religious paintings, yet it is one of the least studied since, until now, it has been in the same private collection since the mid-nineteenth century. Brueghel has recreated a biblical story with the aesthetics of the sixteenth-century Netherlands. Some scholars believe it may also provide commentary on the religious wars ravaging Europe at the time. Others think that the scene may <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">reference<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the way protestants had to meet and worship in secret thanks to anti-Protestant policies enacted by the Habsburgs. Christie\u2019s predicted the Brueghel to sell for anywhere between \u00a3800K and \u00a31.2 million, given the size and rarity of the painting. It slightly exceeded these estimates, selling for \u00a31.3 million \/ $1.65 million (or \u00a31.6 million \/ $2 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55665\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Saint_John_the_Baptist_Preaching_to_the_Masses_in_the_Wilderness_oil_on_oak_panel_by_Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55665\" class=\"wp-image-55665\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Saint_John_the_Baptist_Preaching_to_the_Masses_in_the_Wilderness_oil_on_oak_panel_by_Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"A 16th-century scene of a large crowd in a wooded clearing listening to someone preach.\" width=\"247\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Saint_John_the_Baptist_Preaching_to_the_Masses_in_the_Wilderness_oil_on_oak_panel_by_Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Saint_John_the_Baptist_Preaching_to_the_Masses_in_the_Wilderness_oil_on_oak_panel_by_Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sermon of Saint John the Baptist<\/em> by Pieter Brueghel the Younger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But the sale did not do well just from the top lots alone. While a good portion of the auction went unsold, several other lots sold far beyond their estimate, which helped balance things out. In particular, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/img\/lotimages\/2024\/CKS\/2024_CKS_22691_0009_000(clara_peeters_a_stack_of_cheese_on_a_pewter_platter_with_butter_on_a_p061550).jpg?mode=max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a still life by the Flemish painter Clara Peeters<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> did exceptionally well. Peeters was one of the few professional female artists working during the first half of the Dutch Golden Age. The work offered at Christie\u2019s was a simple still life featuring cheese, bread, pretzels, and wine, estimated to sell for no more than \u00a3150K. Given the contemporary reappraisal of female artists and artists of color, a greater interest in the works of painters like Peeters seems not terribly surprising. However, the painting exceeded its high estimate by a factor of 3.4, hammering at \u00a3520K \/ $660.3K (or \u00a3655.2K \/ $831.9K w\/p). The Peeters was one of the nine lots out of twenty-six (35%) that sold over their estimates. Five lots (19%) each sold within and below their estimates. This leaves seven (27%) that went unsold. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Despite the substantial amount of lots bought in, the works that sold over estimate were sufficient to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">not only<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> bring the total within Christie\u2019s pre-sale estimate <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">but<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> surpass it.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> The house specialists predicted the twenty-six available lots to bring <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> anywhere between \u00a37.4 million and \u00a310.9 million. Paintings towards the end of the sale, like the Tiepolo and <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/media.mutualart.com\/Images\/2024_11\/08\/01\/78990529\/francesco-hayez-bathsheba-SVZCG-570.Jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bathsheba<\/span><\/a><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/media.mutualart.com\/Images\/2024_11\/08\/01\/78990529\/francesco-hayez-bathsheba-SVZCG-570.Jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Francesco Hayez<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, pushed the auction over the top, with \u00a311 million (\u00a313.99 million w\/p) brought in for Christie\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the week of blockbuster end-of-year sales in New York, many of the main auction houses will host their Old Masters and nineteenth-century sales. 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