Graham Bell
The Ante-Room
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: 6.000 GBP
Price realised: 6.000 GBP
Description
oil on canvas
18 x 12 in. (45.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1942.
Samuel Carr was chairman of the publishers B.T. Batsford, and a keen collector of Modern British Art. His brother, the well-known Northern Irish painter Tom Carr, introduced Sam to his Slade School and Euston Road School contemporaries. Sam struck up a particularly close friendship with Victor Pasmore and purchased many works directly from him.
Samuel Carr, by 1947.
18 x 12 in. (45.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1942.
Samuel Carr was chairman of the publishers B.T. Batsford, and a keen collector of Modern British Art. His brother, the well-known Northern Irish painter Tom Carr, introduced Sam to his Slade School and Euston Road School contemporaries. Sam struck up a particularly close friendship with Victor Pasmore and purchased many works directly from him.
Samuel Carr, by 1947.
A top price for Graham Bell
This artwork by Graham Bell achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in November 2017. In the Modern/British Art Online auction, the work The Ante-Room sold for GBP 6,000.00 (€ 6,810.89) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 3,000.00. This high result makes The Ante-Room the most expensive artwork by Graham Bell that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Graham Bell
Dieses Kunstwerk von Graham Bell erzielte im November 2017 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Modern/British Art Online wurde die Arbeit The Ante-Room für GBP 6.000,00 (€ 6.810,89) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 3.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht The Ante-Room zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Graham Bell, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
Graham Bell - Auction history
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