Lucien Smith
A kiss strikes like lightning: love passes like a storm.
Found at
Christies,
New York (Online Auction)
First Open Online: Post War & Contemporary Art, Lot 117
3. Dec - 15. Dec 2021
First Open Online: Post War & Contemporary Art, Lot 117
3. Dec - 15. Dec 2021
Estimate: 15.000 - 20.000 USD
Price realised: 37.500 USD
Price realised: 37.500 USD
Description
LUCIEN SMITH (b.1989)
A kiss strikes like lightning: love passes like a storm.
signed 'Lucien Smith' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 2012.
A kiss strikes like lightning: love passes like a storm.
signed 'Lucien Smith' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 2012.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 88 %.
This artwork by Lucien Smith achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in December 2021. In the First Open Online: Post War & Contemporary Art auction, the work A kiss strikes like lightning: love passes like a storm. sold for USD 37,500.00 (€ 33,133.06) - well above the upper estimate of USD 20,000.00. Admittedly, works by Lucien Smith have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree in November 2013 with an auction result of USD 389,000.00 (€ 285,903.28).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 88 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Lucien Smith erzielte im Dezember 2021 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion First Open Online: Post War & Contemporary Art wurde die Arbeit A kiss strikes like lightning: love passes like a storm. für USD 37.500,00 (€ 33.133,06) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 20.000,00. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Lucien Smith auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree im November 2013 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 389.000,00 (€ 285.903,28).
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