John James Audubon
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Found at
Christies,
New York
The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, Lot 115
26. May - 26. May 2022
The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, Lot 115
26. May - 26. May 2022
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
Description
Yellow-throated Vireo
John James Audubon, 1831
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate CXIX)
Vireo Flavifrons
Audubon painted this bird while he was working as a tutor for the Pirrie family in northern Louisiana, during the summer of 1821. "In addition to the bird's names, [Audubon] called the Hydrangea by the delightful name of 'Swamp Snow-ball'" (Low, p. 92).
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1831, with margins. Plate size 499 x 315 mm (970 x 642 mm sheet). (Minor soiling to sheet edges, small pale spot in upper left of plate.) Matted and framed.
John James Audubon, 1831
AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after. – HAVELL, Robert (1793-1878).
Yellow-throated Vireo (Plate CXIX)
Vireo Flavifrons
Audubon painted this bird while he was working as a tutor for the Pirrie family in northern Louisiana, during the summer of 1821. "In addition to the bird's names, [Audubon] called the Hydrangea by the delightful name of 'Swamp Snow-ball'" (Low, p. 92).
Engraving with hand-coloring, etching, and aquatint, on watermarked J Whatman paper dated 1831, with margins. Plate size 499 x 315 mm (970 x 642 mm sheet). (Minor soiling to sheet edges, small pale spot in upper left of plate.) Matted and framed.
Artwork auctioned at five times the upper estimate price
When the work Yellow-Throated Vireo by John James Audubon was auctioned at Christies in New York in May this year, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 1,500 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 8,820 (€ 8,219). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by John James Audubon achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work in June 2018 with an auction result of USD 9,650,000 (€ 8,264,109).
Kunstwerk zum Fünffachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Yellow-Throated Vireo von John James Audubon im Mai diesen Jahres bei Christies in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 1.500 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 8.820 (€ 8.219) mehr als fünfmal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von John James Audubon erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit im Juni 2018 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 9.650.000 (€ 8.264.109).
John James Audubon - Auction history
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