Anton Raphael Mengs

Academy Nude

Found at Sothebys, London
Old Master & British Works on Paper, Lot 141
2. Jul - 8. Jul 2021
Estimate: 4.000 - 6.000 GBP
Price realised: 13.860 GBP
Anton Raphael Mengs
Ústi nad Labem, Bohemia (Czech Republic) 1728- 1779 Rome
Academy Nude
Red chalk heightened with white chalk, within partial black chalk framing lines;
bears inscription in pen and brown ink, lower right: An Academy Figure / Drawn by Mengs at Rome 175(5?) (last digit of date partially obscured by collector's stamp) and bears artist name and dates in black chalk, verso
unframed: 492 by 360 mm
framed: 720 by 582 mm
Bears unidentified collector's mark, lower right (L.619a)

Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%

This artwork by Anton Raphael Mengs achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in July 2021. In the Old Master & British Works on Paper auction, the work Academy Nude sold for GBP 13,860.00 (€ 16,253.72) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 6,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Anton Raphael Mengs achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony (1722-1763), three-quarter-length, in armour, with an ermine lined mantle and the sash and star of the Order of the White Eagle in July last year with an auction result of GBP 475,000.00 (€ 567,234.37).

Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen

Dieses Kunstwerk von Anton Raphael Mengs erzielte im Juli 2021 bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Master & British Works on Paper wurde die Arbeit Academy Nude für GBP 13.860,00 (€ 16.253,72) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 6.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Anton Raphael Mengs erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony (1722-1763), three-quarter-length, in armour, with an ermine lined mantle and the sash and star of the Order of the White Eagle im Juli letzten Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 475.000,00 (€ 567.234,37).

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