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- Frederick Rowland Emett
- A Harrowing Prospect of Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Reconstructed From Reports Filtering In That A Certain Wizard Magnetic Barking - Sixpence Purse We Sent Through The Post Had Disturbed The Electronics, And Somewhat Hampered The Otherwise Smooth
Frederick Rowland Emett
A Harrowing Prospect of Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Reconstructed From Reports Filtering In That A Certain Wizard Magnetic Barking - Sixpence Purse We Sent Through The Post Had Disturbed The Electronics, And Somewhat Hampered The Otherwise Smooth
Estimate: 1.000 - 1.500 GBP
Price realised: 3.600 GBP
Price realised: 3.600 GBP
Description
Frederick Rowland Emett (1906-1990)
'A harrowing prospect of Mount Pleasant sorting office, reconstructed from reports filtering in that a certain wizard magnetic barking - sixpence purse we sent through the post had disturbed the electronics, and somewhat hampered the otherwise smooth running of that organisation'
signed 'Emett' (lower left) and inscribed with title (on the mount)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with white
17½ x 26 in. (44.4 x 66.1 cm.)
'A harrowing prospect of Mount Pleasant sorting office, reconstructed from reports filtering in that a certain wizard magnetic barking - sixpence purse we sent through the post had disturbed the electronics, and somewhat hampered the otherwise smooth running of that organisation'
signed 'Emett' (lower left) and inscribed with title (on the mount)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with white
17½ x 26 in. (44.4 x 66.1 cm.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by more than 100%
This artwork by Frederick Rowland Emett achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in June 2005. In the British and Continental Watercolours auction, the work A Harrowing Prospect of Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Reconstructed From Reports Filtering In That A Certain Wizard Magnetic Barking - Sixpence Purse We Sent Through The Post Had Disturbed The Electronics, And Somewhat Hampered The Otherwise Smooth sold for GBP 3,600.00 (€ 5,335.43) - well above the upper estimate However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Frederick Rowland Emett - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work The Shell X100 By-Plane, which sold at auction in November 2006 for GBP 12,000.00 (€ 17,820.38).
Oberer Schätzpreis um mehr als 100% übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Frederick Rowland Emett erzielte im Juni 2005 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion British and Continental Watercolours wurde die Arbeit A Harrowing Prospect of Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Reconstructed From Reports Filtering In That A Certain Wizard Magnetic Barking - Sixpence Purse We Sent Through The Post Had Disturbed The Electronics, And Somewhat Hampered The Otherwise Smooth für GBP 3.600,00 (€ 5.335,43) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 1.500,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Frederick Rowland Emett mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit The Shell X100 By-Plane beobachtet, die im November 2006 für GBP 12.000,00 (€ 17.820,38) versteigert wurde.