Tina Modotti
Telephone Wires, Mexico
Found at
Phillips,
New York Auction
Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection, Lot 8
4. Apr - 4. Apr 2019
Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection, Lot 8
4. Apr - 4. Apr 2019
Estimate: 250.000 - 350.000 USD
Price realised: 692.000 USD
Price realised: 692.000 USD
Description
1925
Palladium print.
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount.
From the photographer to Diego Rivera | Private Collection | Sotheby’s, New York, 14 April 1992, lot 217A | Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent
Palladium print.
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount.
From the photographer to Diego Rivera | Private Collection | Sotheby’s, New York, 14 April 1992, lot 217A | Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent
A top price for Tina Modotti
This artwork by Tina Modotti achieved an unexpectedly high price at Phillips in New York in April 2019. In the Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection auction, the work Telephone Wires, Mexico sold for USD 692,000.00 (€ 617,801.98) - well above the upper estimate of USD 350,000.00. This high result makes Telephone Wires, Mexico the most expensive artwork by Tina Modotti that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Tina Modotti
Dieses Kunstwerk von Tina Modotti erzielte im April 2019 bei Phillips in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection wurde die Arbeit Telephone Wires, Mexico für USD 692.000,00 (€ 617.801,98) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 350.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht Telephone Wires, Mexico zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Tina Modotti, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.
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