Asian And Modern Art Highlight Litchfield County Auctions Sale
:Litchfield County Auctions' May 4 Modernism, Asian and European art and antiques sale was a great success, according to the auction house, led by Modern art and Asian antiques.
The sale began with the excitement of online bidding and continued with the added element of Litchfield's annual preview party. Conducted in the evening on April 28, the preview drew many local buyers, dealers and auctiongoers looking to get a first glimpse of what was in the auction and what was going to be available in the tag sale that opened the next day, along with the exhibition. The tag sale continued until auction day.
The online auction received bids from prospective buyers all over the world. In all, the sale grossed more than $730,000, including the tag sale. A total of 859 lots were sold in the auction for a sell-through rate of 80 percent. Buyers hailed from 33 different US states, and internationally from Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The top lot was "Red" by Hermann Nitsch, a work executed in spilled red paint and possibly blood on canvas, a medium for which Nitsch is famous. Carrying an estimate of $12/18,000, it sold for $22,320. Eduardo Mac Entyre's "Variacion de Ju Tara Sobre Violeta," a 1968 acrylic, brought $15,600, and a large oil on canvas by Arbit Blatas, "View of Venice at Night," realized $15,000. Oil on canvas works by Sarah Grilo and Enrico Donati sold, respectively, at $12,180 and $10,500.
Other highlights include "Boats in a Harbor" by Feodor Zakharov (Russian American), which fetched $6,300, and "Two Ducks in a Pond" by Jean Dunand, which sold at the opening bid of $6,240.
In the Asian art section, a Chinese painting on silk of two maidens, Qing dynasty, estimated at $1/1,500, was a high seller at $9,420, followed by a Chinese porcelain brush pot, circa 1650, that garnered $7,200, and a finely painted two-panel screen by Kano Nuidononosuke Eino, (Japanese, 1631–1697) that went out at $5,580.
Items in the antiquities and ethnographic category were well received, with highlights including an ancient Egyptian limestone carving of the Ape of Thoth, late period, circa 600 BC, which sold for $7,338; an Oceanic polychrome painted carved ironwood mask that achieved $4,560; a Northwest Coast (Haida) ceremonial mask and a potlatch spoon at $4,320; a Mexican Colima dog, circa 100 BC–250 AD, at $3,960; and a New Guinea ceremonial wood seated figure that brought $3,720.
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