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total of €7,125 ($7,800): Das
Meer (The Sea), 1986, sold for
€2,250 ($2,500) (est. €3,600;
$3,900); Der Blick (The View),
1987, matched its estimate
when it achieved €3,000
($3,300); and Ich nehme deineSeele (I Take Thy Soul), 1988,
realized €1,875 ($2,000)
(est. €3,000; $3,300). From
Indian artist Krishen Khanna,
the 1965 oil Composition
sold for €5,000 ($5,500),
failing to meet its €8,000
($8,700) estimate.
The artist was heavily
influenced by Ab-
stract Expressionism,
and this red, impasto-
heavy painting is aLONDON
CHRISTIE’S
JANUARY 21: THE SKI SALE
137 LOTS SOLD FOR £614,900
($871,000)
TOP LOT: Alex Walter
Diggelmann’s 1934 Gstaad
lithograph, left, secured top
honors at the house’s annual
sale when it sold for £76,900
($109,000), schussing well
beyond its £15,000 ($21,000)
high estimate and setting
an auction record for a
ski poster. The runner-up
was the undated lithograph
St. Moritz, right, by
Carl Moos. Featuring
a skier in midair,
the work landed a
final price of £23,750
($34,000), just shy of
its £25,000 ($35,000)
high estimate. Sev-
eral luxurious ski
destinations in Europe
and beyond were
represented in this
popular sale from
the vintage poster
department. Zermatt
by Emil Cardinaux,
a colored lithograph
from 1908, achieved
£17,500 ($25,000)
on an estimate of
£8,000 to £12,000
($11–17,000). The
same artist’s Davoslithograph, from 1918, sold for
£16,250 ($23,000) (est. £12–
18,000; $17–25,000), and
his St. Moritz, 1918, secured a
buyer for £15,000 ($21,000)
(est. £10–15,000; $14–21,000).
Martin Peikert’s lithograph
Pontresina, 1943, took in
£11,875 ($17,000), exceeding
its £3,000 ($4,200) high
estimate. Although the major-
ity of lots sold well below
the £10,000 ($14,000) mark,
137 out of the 197 lots found
buyers for a solid sell-
through rate of 70 percent.prime example from that era.
Bidding for the majority of
works on the block started
at or below €1,500 ($1,600)—
a perfect entry point for new
or young collectors—but the
sale was rather unsuccessful,
with only 23 out of 84 lots
managing to secure buyers.
Despite the appearance of
several lots by notable names
in the category, such as
Anish Kapoor, Robert Indiana,
Richard Prince, and Man
Ray, more
than 73
percent of
lots were
bought in.ONLINE
AUCTIONATA
JANUARY 11: MODERN ART
23 LOTS SOLD FOR €54,188
($59,000)
TOP LOT:The highest-selling
work of the auction was a set
of 10 compressed-cardboard
archive blocks from 1979 by
Marc Robbroeckx, otherwise
known as Denmark. The
installation sold for €8,750
($9,500) (est. €14,000;
$15,000). Robbroeckx is known
for taking printed material—
a carrier of information—and
compressing and stacking
it. In this untitled work, the
archiving of printed material
acts as a symbol for order
and information overload.
Die Teenager-Königin
(The Teenager Queen),
a crayon-and-pencil
drawing on woven
cardboard by
Friedrich Schröder-
Sonnenstern,
1952, exceeded its
€3,000 ($3,300)
estimate to land at
€5,625 ($6,100),
the second-highest
price in the auction.
Three oil paintings
by German artist
Dieter Hacker
depicting female
nudes found buyers
for a combinedMONACO
ARTCURIAL
JANUARY 20: FRATELLINI
COLLECTION
49 LOTS SOLD FOR
€81,135 ($88,000)
TOP LOT:A National Triolian
resonator guitar from 1930,
once owned by the renowned
French circus performer
François Fratellini, led the sale
when it secured a European
buyer for €13,700 ($15,000),
surpassing its €8,000 ($8,700)
high estimate. The sale paid
tribute to the three clown
brothers—François, Albert,
and Paul—who were famous
during the first half of the
20th century. Offerings
included oil paintings, works
on paper, advertisements,
and memorabilia connected to
the trio, as well as personal
belongings. An undated English
concertina also owned by
François, made out of wood,
brass, and leather, sold for
€6,500 ($7,100) on an estimate
of €1,000 to €1,200 ($1,100–
1,300). A clown costume and
hat, made by Jeanne Pérès
out of burgundy velvet,
rhinestones, and lace, and
accompanied by a fedora,
from 1920–30, took in €5,200
($5,700), within its €4,000-
to-€6,000 ($4,400–6,500)
estimate. Several paintings
of the clowns secured buyers:
Numéro de clowns avec
échasses, an oil on canvas by
Joseph Faverot, circa 1920,
sold for €4,200 ($4,600)
(est. €2,000–3,000; $2,200–
3,300); and Clown équilibriste,
an undated oil on panel by
Jules Monge, achieved €3,900
($4,200), more than tripling its
€1,200 ($1,300) high estimate.
Although the sale carried
works dating back nearly
a century, only 53 percent
of lots offered were sold.