Peter Hurd

The Baptising

Found at Christies, New York
The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection, Lot 31
28.Okt - 28.Okt.2020
Estimate: 30.000 - 50.000 USD
Price realised: 81.250 USD
signed 'Peter Hurd' (lower left)—signed again, inscribed with title and 'San Patricio, N.M.' and dated '1969' (on the reverse)
tempera on masonite
27 ¾ x 48 in. (70.5 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
The artist. | Jeffrey Reynolds, commissioned from the above. | Sotheby’s, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 126, sold by the above. | Reserve National Insurance Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | Texas Art Gallery, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 3 November 2007, lot 72. | Acquired by the late owner from the above.

Upper estimate price exceeded by 63 %.

The work The Baptising by Peter Hurd was sold in the The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection auction at Christies in New York in October 2020. It achieved a price of USD 81,250.00 (€ 69,760.45), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 63%. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Peter Hurd; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Solitude sold at auction in April this year with the realized price of USD 126,000.00 (€ 114,130.43).

Oberer Schätzpreis um 63 % übertroffen

Die Arbeit The Baptising von Peter Hurd wurde im Oktober 2020 in der Auktion The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection bei Christies in New York versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von USD 81.250,00 (€ 69.760,45) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 63%. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Peter Hurd; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Solitude im April diesen Jahres mit dem Hammerpreis von USD 126.000,00 (€ 114.130,43).

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