Anatomy as Art: The Dean Edell Collection totals $1,449,363 Today's sale of Anatomy as Art: The Dean Edell Collection totaled $1,449,363 and was 91% sold by lot, 82% sold by value.
News-Antique.com - Oct 10,2007 - Anatomy as Art: The Dean Edell Collection
New York – 5, October 2007
Sale no: 1885 – Top Ten
Today's sale of Anatomy as Art: The Dean Edell Collection totaled $1,449,363 and was 91% sold by lot, 82% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was Albrecht Dürer’s, Hierinn sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, realizing $73,000.
Sold: $1,449,363 £710,472 €1,027,917
Lots Sold: 208 Lots Offered: 229 Sold by Lot: 91% Sold by $:82%
Exchange Rate: $ =£2.04 / € 1.41
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Comment: Thomas Lecky, Head of Books and Manuscripts, Christie’s New York, says: “Today’s sale saw good cross-over buying of anatomical atlases and books from Dr. Dean Edell’s Collection. The fresh perspectives given to these works in the catalogue found new buyers who could appreciate the artistic merits of these fine books. Outstanding prices were achieved for the very rare Japanese anatomical books as well as classics from the Western traditional books as Albrecht Dürer’s book of proportional human figures, and the series of visual arresting books by Jacques Gautier D’Agoty.”
