Thomas Baines
The Mosi-O-A-Tunya (Smoke Resounding) Or Victoria Falls Of The Zambesi River, Latitude 17.55.4 South
Estimate: 70.000 - 100.000 GBP
Price realised: 187.500 GBP
Price realised: 187.500 GBP
Description
signed and dated 'T BAINES / D'URBAN / APRIL 1874' (lower right), titled 'THE MOSI-O-A-TUNYA. SMOKE RESOUNDING. VICTORIA FALLS ZAMBESI RIVER. LAT. 17.55.4. Sth. THE LEAPING WATER & THREE RILL INTO ...' (along the lower edge), signed, inscribed and dated 'The Mosi-o-a-tunya (Smoke resounding) or Victoria Falls / of the Zambesi River Latitude 17.55.4 South /height 400-feet Width 1900 yards height to which the spray / cloud rises 1200 feet / the view is taken from the edge of the Wet forest opposit
oil on canvas
20 x 26in. (50.8 x 66.1cm.)
The Hon. Guy Cuthbert Dawnay (1848-1889), who commissioned the picture from the artist in South Africa, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's London, 22 October 1991, lot 56 (The Property of The Dawnay Children's Trust), where purchased by the late owner (£66,000).
oil on canvas
20 x 26in. (50.8 x 66.1cm.)
The Hon. Guy Cuthbert Dawnay (1848-1889), who commissioned the picture from the artist in South Africa, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's London, 22 October 1991, lot 56 (The Property of The Dawnay Children's Trust), where purchased by the late owner (£66,000).
Upper estimate price exceeded by 88 %.
This artwork by Thomas Baines achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in December 2017. In the Topographical Pictures auction, the work The Mosi-O-A-Tunya (Smoke Resounding) Or Victoria Falls Of The Zambesi River, Latitude 17.55.4 South sold for GBP 187,500.00 (€ 211,003.78) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 100,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Thomas Baines - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls, which sold at auction in March 2021 for GBP 574,750.00 (€ 675,183.19).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 88 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Thomas Baines erzielte im Dezember 2017 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Topographical Pictures wurde die Arbeit The Mosi-O-A-Tunya (Smoke Resounding) Or Victoria Falls Of The Zambesi River, Latitude 17.55.4 South für GBP 187.500,00 (€ 211.003,78) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 100.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Thomas Baines mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit The Eastern Cataracts of the Victoria Falls beobachtet, die im März 2021 für GBP 574.750,00 (€ 675.183,19) versteigert wurde.
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