Results: 19th Century European and Orientalist Art realize $10,846,750 Christie's sale of 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art realized $10,846,750/£6,456,399/€8,279,962.
News-Antique.com - Oct 29,2008 - Christie's sale of 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art realized $10,846,750/£6,456,399/€8,279,962. The top lot of the sale was a Alberto Pasini's Mercato in Oriente, which realized $1,142,500.
Sold: $10,846,750 £6,456,399 €8,279,962
Lots Sold: 110 Lots Offered: 252 Sold by Lot: 44% Sold by $: 53%
Exchange Rate: £ = $1.68 / € = $1.31
Lot Description Estimate ($) Purchase Price Buyer
65 Alberto Pasini, Mercato in Oriente, oil on canvas, 1881 500,000-700,000 $1,142,500
£680,060
€872,137 Anonymous
114 Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq, Musiciens juifs dans les rues de Tétuan, oil on canvas, circa 1858
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ARTIST 400,000-600,000 $1,082,500
£644,345
€826,336 Anonymous
121 Aleksei Alexeiewitsch Harlamoff, Moody Girl, oil on canvas, circa 1900 1,200,000-1,800,000 $962,500
£572,917
€734,733 US Private
46 Wilhelm Kuhnert, A Pride of Lions on the Prowl, oil on canvas
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ARTIST 250,000-350,000 $590,500
£351,488
€450,763 US Private
52 Edwin Lord Weeks, Departure for the Hunt in the Forecourt of a Palace of Jodhpore, oil on canvas, circa 1898-1900 400,000-600,000 $578,500
£344,345
€441,603 US Private
204 Victor Gabriel Gilbert, The Lower Market, Paris, oil on canvas, 1881
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ARTIST 250,000-350,000 $542,500
£322,917
€414,122 Anonymous
128 Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Le marché des fleurs, oil on canvas, 1880 200,000-300,000 $506,500
£301,488
€386,641 European Private
60 Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Torchères: femme indienne portant un vase sur épaul gauche; femme indienne portant un vase sur la tête, bronze 100,000-200,000 $362,500
£215,774
€276,718 European Trade
120 William Adolphe Bouguereau, La Petite Esméralda, oil on canvas, 1874 400,000-600,000 $362,500
£215,774
€276,718 US Private
9 Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Scène prise au Maroc, oil on canvas, 1885 250,000-350,000 $278,500
£165,774
€212,595 Private
Comment - Deborah Coy, Head of the 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art Department: “Private bidding prevailed in today’s sale for highly selective, rediscovered Orientalist and 19th Century European Art. Bidding was truly international throughout the sale and 6 new world auction records were realized for Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq, Frederick Weekes, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Wilhelm Kuhnert, and Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Le marché des fleurs, which was broken just a half hour later by his own The Lower Market, Paris.”
