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- Hockney's Alphabet
David Hockney
Hockney's Alphabet
Estimate: 1.500 - 2.500 USD
Price realised: 12.600 USD
Price realised: 12.600 USD
Description
1991
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors, on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, with full text and title page, the sheets bound (as issued) in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards, housed in the original grey slip case.
13 1/2 x 10 x 1 1/4 in. (34.3 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm)
Signed by the artist and most contributors in ink and numbered '89' in black ink on the justification page, from the edition of 250 (there was also an edition of 26 lettered A-Z and an edition of 24 in Roman numerals), published by Faber & Faber, London.
The complete book including 26 lithographs in colors, on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, with full margins, with full text and title page, the sheets bound (as issued) in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper boards, housed in the original grey slip case.
13 1/2 x 10 x 1 1/4 in. (34.3 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm)
Signed by the artist and most contributors in ink and numbered '89' in black ink on the justification page, from the edition of 250 (there was also an edition of 26 lettered A-Z and an edition of 24 in Roman numerals), published by Faber & Faber, London.
Artwork auctioned at five times the upper estimate price
When the work Hockney's Alphabet by David Hockney was auctioned at Phillips in New York in October 2021, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 2,500.00 but the actual price achieved was more than five times as high at USD 12,600.00 (€ 10,907.20). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by David Hockney achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Nichols Canyon in December 2020 with an auction result of USD 41,067,500.00 (€ 33,579,313.16).
Kunstwerk zum Fünffachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Hockney's Alphabet von David Hockney im Oktober 2021 bei Phillips in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 2.500,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 12.600,00 (€ 10.907,20) mehr als fünfmal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von David Hockney erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Nichols Canyon im Dezember 2020 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 41.067.500,00 (€ 33.579.313,16).