2023-12-20 04:06:28
The Vienna auction houses Dorotheum and Kinsky can look forward to a successful year 2023. The Dorotheum expects the second-best result following the record year of 2022, when annual sales of over 200 million euros were achieved at auctions, it said in a press release. The auction house in Kinsky achieved an annual turnover of 23 million euros, slightly below the previous year’s figure, but was able to point to several world records.
At the top of the Dorotheum auction charts is Osman Hamdi Bey’s painting “A Look in the Mirror”, which was auctioned for 1.275 million euros. In the area of modern and contemporary art, a matt black “Concetto Spaziale” by Lucio Fontana (875,000 euros) and the four-part ballpoint pen work “non parto non resto” by Alighiero Boetti (650,000 euros) were successful. The painting “Judith and Holofernes” by Fede Galizia, one of the rare women in the world of old masters, also caused a stir. According to the auction house, it is considered an “important, signed rediscovery of this artist” and changed hands for 624,000 euros.
There was a record at the auction of “Burgundy Mouse 2” by Gottfried Helnwein. Never before has a painting by the Austrian fetched 182,000 euros. Other Austrian artists were also in demand. A typical Martha Jungwirth seismographic work on cardboard fetched 202,800 euros. Franz Sedlacek’s “The Magician and the Harlequin” came to 309,400 euros.
The Dorotheum said online auctions were once once more very popular in 2023. Digital activities will continue to be expanded in the coming year. In total, works by over 3,500 artists went under the hammer.
There was also a lot of bidding going on in the Kinsky auction house. World records were achieved at the auction of the marble “Drunken Silenus” by Alfred Hrdlicka (131,000 euros) and the painting “Girl with Carnations in a Landscape” by Franz Wiegele (192,000 euros). There was also a new record for a pastel by the animal painter Norbertine Bresslern-Roth. “Two Polar Bears” was sold for 59,500 euros, making it the Graz artist’s most expensive paper work ever auctioned.
Carl Moll’s “Garden in Spring on the Hohe Warte” (486,000 euros) and Rudolf Wacker’s “Uferlandschaft” (384,000 euros) changed hands for large sums of money. Gustav Klimt’s drawing “Standing Lady with Boa from the Front” went under the hammer for 307,500 euros, while Egon Schiele’s “Peasant Women” sold for 256,000 euros. Maria Lassnig’s early work “Bright Body” achieved 262,500 euros.
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