| CHRISTIE'S LATIN AMERICAN SALE MAY 25TH AND 26TH 2005 THIS CATALOG CONTAINS 220 PAGES AND 191 LOTS WITH: Sold: $8,355,160 Lots offered: 182 Lots sold: 111 £: $1.83/€: $1.26 £4,565,661 Sold by lot: 61% Sold by $: 70% Sale No: 1524 €6,631,079 Comments: Virgilio Garza, Head of the Latin American Art department: “Tonight’s sale realized very solid prices for works by traditional and internationally appreciated artists such as Botero and Tamayo. The great collector’s eye of Ruth and Harvey Kaplan, which already sent prices soaring in the past evening sales of Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary Art, also triumphed tonight with their fabulous Tamayo, Discusión acalorada, fetching $867,200. It was interesting to see the interest wave for sculpture also washing over Latin American shores with Botero’s Sitting Woman achieving a new world auction record for a sculpture by the artist and Zuñiga’s powerful Madre con niño en la cadera fetching $216,000. World auction records were established for Botero, Coronel, Iommi, Amorales, Rodriguez and Anguiano. We look forward to our day sale tomorrow, starting at 10 a.m.” LOT PRICE ESTIMATE BUYER 35 $867,200 £473,880/€688,254 $500,000-700,000 Anonymous Rufino Tamayo, Discusión acalorada, 1953 18 $744,000 £406,557/€590,476 $700,000-900,000 Anonymous Rufino Tamayo, La silla amarilla, 1929 46 $732,800 £400,437/€581,587 $300,000-400,000 US Trade Fernando Botero, A Family, 1996 43 $688,000 £375,956/€546,032 $400,000-500,000 Private Fernando Botero, Sitting Woman, 1976 WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A SCULPTURE BY THE ARTIST 54 $576,000 £314,754/€457,143 $400,000-500,000 Private Rufino Tamayo, Los comediantes, 1986 52 $475,200 £259,672/€377,143 $300,000-400,000 Private Fernando Botero, The Model, 1989 24 $329,600 £180,179/€261,587 $200,000-300,000 Anonymous Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Constructivo en grises, 1943 33 $307,200 £167,869/€243,810 $100,000-150,000 Private Pedro Coronel, La primavera, 1958 WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST 40 $216,000 £118,033/€171,429 $80,000-100,000 Trade Claudio Bravo, Untitled (Bolsas de papel), 1969 49 $216,000 £118,033/€171,429 $200,000-250,000 Private Francisco Zuñiga, Madre con niño en la cadera, 1979 SALE 1524 B-3 S-2 |
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