Yulo Sooster
Firework
Estimate: 6.000 - 8.000 USD
Price realised: 25.000 USD
Price realised: 25.000 USD
Description
Yulo Sooster
1924-1970
FIREWORK
signed in Latin and dated '63' l.r.; further inscribed and titled in Cyrillic on reverse
oil on board
Yulo Sooster (Ülo Ilmar Sooster) was an Estonian non-conformist artist who was arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1949 while he was studying at art college, and sentenced to ten years in Karlag, the Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, one of the largest Gulag labor camps located in the steppe of modern day Kazakhstan. He was released in 1956 at the time of Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw; he briefly returned to Estonia and moved to Moscow the fol
oil on board
Board: 19 1/4 by 27 1/4 in., 49 by 69.5cm
Framed: 20 1/2 by 28 1/4 in., 52 by 72cm
1924-1970
FIREWORK
signed in Latin and dated '63' l.r.; further inscribed and titled in Cyrillic on reverse
oil on board
Yulo Sooster (Ülo Ilmar Sooster) was an Estonian non-conformist artist who was arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1949 while he was studying at art college, and sentenced to ten years in Karlag, the Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, one of the largest Gulag labor camps located in the steppe of modern day Kazakhstan. He was released in 1956 at the time of Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw; he briefly returned to Estonia and moved to Moscow the fol
oil on board
Board: 19 1/4 by 27 1/4 in., 49 by 69.5cm
Framed: 20 1/2 by 28 1/4 in., 52 by 72cm
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
The work Firework by Ülo Sooster was worth USD 25,000.00 (€ 22,061.42) to a buyer in October 2018. This price was achieved in the auction Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online at Sothebys in New York and exceeded the previously set upper estimate of USD 8,000.00 many times over. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Ülo Sooster; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Man with Pipe sold at auction in December 2021 with the realized price of GBP 31,500.00 (€ 37,572.89).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Die Arbeit Firework von Ülo Sooster war einem Käufer im Oktober 2018 USD 25.000,00 (€ 22.061,42) wert. Dieser Preise wurde in der Auktion Escape Artists: The Non-Conformists Online bei Sothebys in New York erzielt und übertraf den zuvor angesetzten oberen Schätzpreis von USD 8.000,00 um ein Vielfaches. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Ülo Sooster; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Man with Pipe im Dezember 2021 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 31.500,00 (€ 37.572,89).
Ülo Sooster - Auction history
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