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Title: Sotheby's Antiquities
Auction held in: New York
Sale Date: 6/5/08
Sale No: NO8452
No. of Lots: 125
No. of Pages: 151
Condition: Excellent
Sotheby’s Spring 2008 Sale of Antiquities
Exceeds Expectations, Totaling $8.9 Million
Cycladic Figure of a Man sells for $1.3 million,
-Highest Price for a Cycladic Work at Auction since 1988-
New York, NY -- Sotheby’s June 5, 2008 sale of Antiquities brought a strong total of $8,933,001, exceeding the presale high estimate of $6.2 million*. The top lot of the sale was a superb and rare Cycladic Marble Figure of a Man, Early Bronze Age I, circa 3200-2700 B.C., which sold for $1,314,500, the highest price achieved for a Cycladic work at auction since 1988. The sale was 92.7% sold by lot with more than 75% of the sold works achieving prices over their high estimates. Richard M. Keresey and Florent Heintz, experts in charge of the sale said, “We saw incredible demand across all sectors of the category. Collectors are willing to compete at the highest levels for works of great quality anddistinguished provenance. Egyptian art in particular was sought-after, with nearly every work offered finding a buyer.”
Egyptian works accounted for five of the top ten lots in the sale. Chief among them was an Egyptian Basalt Bust of a Queen or Goddess, Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 B.C., which soared past a high estimate of $60,000 to sell for $1,082,500. Other highlights included an Egyptian Wood Ushabti of Rameses IX, 20th Dynasty, 1131-1112 B.C., which sold for $542,500 (est. $80,000/120,000) and Egyptian Diorite or Basalt Figure of a Man, 26th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period, 664-300 B.C., which brought $422,500 (est. $200/300,000).
Among the Classical works that achieved top prices were a Chalcedony Portrait Head of a Queen/Empress, Hellenistic/early Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., which surpassed a high estimate of $600,000 to sell for $962,500, and a Roman Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman, late Republican/early Augustan, 2ndhalf of the 1st Century B.C., which was purchased by the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University for $374,500, well above the high estimate of $90,000.
SOME MORE EXAMPLES FROM THE CATALOG:
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Lot
Price (USD)
Estimate (USD)
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39
$374,500 (£191,874)
$60,000 - 90,000
Michael C. Carlos Museum
A Roman Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman, Late Republican/Early Augustan, 2nd half of the 1st Century B.C.
50
$218,500 (£111,948)
$40,000 - 60,000
European Private Collector
A Bronze Figure of Neith, 26th Dynasty, probably reign of Psamtik I, 664-610 B.C.
46
$206,500 (£105,800)
$100,000 - 150,000
American Private Collector
An Indurated Limestone Head of Princess Nebetah, Reign of Amenhotep III,1391-1353 B.C.
32
$182,500 (£93,503)
$50,000 - 80,000
American trade
A Marble Head of Serapis Ammon, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd half of the 2nd Century A.D. |
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