Sir Claude Francis Barry
Houses of Parliament - a wartime Nocturne
Estimate: 80.000 - 120.000 GBP
Price realised: 161.000 GBP
Price realised: 161.000 GBP
Description
signed 'F. Barry' (lower left) and signed again, inscribed and dated '"The Houses of Parliament - a wartime Nocturne" 1941 Barry. F.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29½ x 37¾ in. (75 x 96 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Billinghurst, 14 January 1992, lot 286, where purchased by the previous owner; from whom purchased by the present owner.
oil on canvas
29½ x 37¾ in. (75 x 96 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Billinghurst, 14 January 1992, lot 286, where purchased by the previous owner; from whom purchased by the present owner.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 34 %.
The work Houses of Parliament - a wartime Nocturne by Claude Barry was sold in the Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale auction at Christies in London in November 2016. It achieved a price of GBP 161,000.00 (€ 189,964.17), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 34%. Other works by Claude Barry have achieved even higher prices, we observed the highest auction result so far of GBP 230,500.00 (€ 325,002.11) in June 2015 for the work London and Wartime: Nocturne.
Oberer Schätzpreis um 34 % übertroffen
Die Arbeit Houses of Parliament - a wartime Nocturne von Claude Barry wurde im November 2016 in der Auktion Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale bei Christies in London versteigert. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 161.000,00 (€ 189.964,17) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 34%. Andere Arbeiten von Claude Barry haben noch höhere Preise erzielt - wir haben das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis von GBP 230.500,00 (€ 325.002,11) im Juni 2015 für die Arbeit London and Wartime: Nocturne beobachtet.
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