Joan Miró
Composition (Design for the cover of La Biennale di Venezia)
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 GBP
Price realised: 126.000 GBP
Price realised: 126.000 GBP
Description
1953
Gouache in colours and paper collage with additions in pencil, on card.
38.6 x 27.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
Signed lower right in black, with an accompanying Certificate of Authenticity signed by Jacques Dupin (author of the Joan Miró prints catalogue raisonné), the original design for the cover of the 1954 Venice Biennale catalogue, framed.
Gouache in colours and paper collage with additions in pencil, on card.
38.6 x 27.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
Signed lower right in black, with an accompanying Certificate of Authenticity signed by Jacques Dupin (author of the Joan Miró prints catalogue raisonné), the original design for the cover of the 1954 Venice Biennale catalogue, framed.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 58 %.
The work Composition (Design for the cover of La Biennale di Venezia) by Joan Miró was sold in the Evening & Day Editions auction at Phillips in London in January this year. The »bidding war« ended at GBP 126,000.00 (€ 143,011.97), 58% above the upper estimate. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Joan Miró achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Peinture (Étoile Bleue) in June 2012 with an auction result of GBP 23,561,250.00 (€ 29,174,436.97).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 58 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Composition (Design for the cover of La Biennale di Venezia) von Joan Miró wurde im Januar diesen Jahres in der Auktion Evening & Day Editions bei Phillips in London versteigert. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von GBP 126.000,00 (€ 143.011,97) und damit 58% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Joan Miró erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Peinture (Étoile Bleue) im Juni 2012 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 23.561.250,00 (€ 29.174.436,97).