![Pierre-Joseph Redouté - Choix des plus belles fleurs, 36 original parts, 1827 [-1833]](/images/pierre-joseph-redoute_choix-des-plus-belles-fleurs-36-original-parts-1827-1833_AID711645.jpg?f=grey)
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Choix des plus belles fleurs, 36 original parts, 1827 [-1833]
Found at
Sothebys,
London
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 176
6. May - 18. May 2022
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I, Lot 176
6. May - 18. May 2022
Estimate: 50.000 - 70.000 GBP
Price realised: 126.000 GBP
Price realised: 126.000 GBP
Description
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Choix des plus belles fleurs. Paris: Chez l'auteur, C.L.F. Panckoucke, Bossange père, Treuttel et Wurtz, Dufart, Arthus-Bertrand, Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827 [-1833]
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 36 original parts, folio (505 x 335mm.), 144 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, original wrappers, EDGES UNCUT, preserved in a red morocco clamshell case by Riviere, occasional light scattered foxing, part 18 plates toned, part 22 slightly frayed and browned at edge, a few wrappers with fraying
AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY OF REDOUTÉ’S MOST DECORATIVE WORK; LARGE PAPER, WITH DECKLE EDGES AND IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS.
The splendid flower plates include several bouquet arrangements and five of Redouté's six camellia plates. Dunthorne describes the sixteen fruit plates as “among the most beautiful of all fruit prints. Plates of greengages, plums, peaches, ladyfinger grapes, raspberries, strawberries, apples, pears and apricots are portrayed so perfectly in the delicacy of the stippled modelling that an impression of a third dimension is created”.
Large-paper copies are a famous rarity. Hunt, Redoutéana notes “this is allegedly one of five copies on large paper, reported to have been finished by Redouté himself. However, there is reason to believe the initial number was larger than this” (p. 60).
LITERATURE:
Dunthorne 235; Great Flower Books, p. 72; Hunt, Redoutéana 21; Nissen BBI 1591; Stafleu TL2 8750
Choix des plus belles fleurs. Paris: Chez l'auteur, C.L.F. Panckoucke, Bossange père, Treuttel et Wurtz, Dufart, Arthus-Bertrand, Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827 [-1833]
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 36 original parts, folio (505 x 335mm.), 144 stipple-engraved plates, printed in colours and finished by hand, original wrappers, EDGES UNCUT, preserved in a red morocco clamshell case by Riviere, occasional light scattered foxing, part 18 plates toned, part 22 slightly frayed and browned at edge, a few wrappers with fraying
AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY OF REDOUTÉ’S MOST DECORATIVE WORK; LARGE PAPER, WITH DECKLE EDGES AND IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS.
The splendid flower plates include several bouquet arrangements and five of Redouté's six camellia plates. Dunthorne describes the sixteen fruit plates as “among the most beautiful of all fruit prints. Plates of greengages, plums, peaches, ladyfinger grapes, raspberries, strawberries, apples, pears and apricots are portrayed so perfectly in the delicacy of the stippled modelling that an impression of a third dimension is created”.
Large-paper copies are a famous rarity. Hunt, Redoutéana notes “this is allegedly one of five copies on large paper, reported to have been finished by Redouté himself. However, there is reason to believe the initial number was larger than this” (p. 60).
LITERATURE:
Dunthorne 235; Great Flower Books, p. 72; Hunt, Redoutéana 21; Nissen BBI 1591; Stafleu TL2 8750
Upper estimate price exceeded by 80 %.
This artwork by Pierre-Joseph Redouté achieved an unexpectedly high price at Sothebys in London in May last year. In the The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I auction, the work Choix des plus belles fleurs, 36 original parts, 1827 -1833 sold for GBP 126,000.00 (€ 148,227.01) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 70,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Pierre-Joseph Redouté achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work An Elaborate Still Life Of Flowers In A Glass Vase Resting On An Alabaster Pedestal With A Bird Nest And A Melon Below in January 2007 with an auction result of USD 2,504,000.00 (€ 1,926,450.22).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 80 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Pierre-Joseph Redouté erzielte im Mai letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I wurde die Arbeit Choix des plus belles fleurs, 36 original parts, 1827 -1833 für GBP 126.000,00 (€ 148.227,01) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 70.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Pierre-Joseph Redouté erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit An Elaborate Still Life Of Flowers In A Glass Vase Resting On An Alabaster Pedestal With A Bird Nest And A Melon Below im Januar 2007 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 2.504.000,00 (€ 1.926.450,22).
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