CHRISTIE'S Old Master & 19th
Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Evening Sale
London – Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Sale no: 7782– Top Ten
[All sold prices include buyer's premium]
Sold:
£68,380,250
$112,417,131
€75,491,796
Lots Sold: 28
Lots Offered: 43
Sold by Lot: 65%
Sold by £: 97%
Exchange Rate£:= $1.644/€1.104
Lot
Description
Estimate (£)
Purchase Price
Buyer
43
Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520
Rome), Head of a muse
WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR ANY WORK
ON PAPER SOLD AT AUCTION
2nd HIGHEST PRICE FOR
ANY OLD MASTER PAINTING OR DRAWING
12,000,000 - 16,000,000
£29,161,250
$47,941,095
€ 32,194,020
Anonymous
12
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669
Amsterdam), Portrait of a man with arms
akimbo
WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST
AT AUCTION
5TH HIGHEST PRICE FOR
AN OLD MASTER PAINTING OR DRAWING SOLD AT AUCTION
18,000,000 - 25,000,000
£20,201,250
$33,210,855
€22,302,180
Anonymous
28
Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (Bologna 1581-1641
Naples), Saint John the Evangelist
WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST
AT AUCTION
7,000,000 - 10,000,000
£9,225,250
$15,166,311
€10,184,676
Anonymous
5
Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp),
The Flemish Proverbs
1,000,000 - 1,500,000
£1,721,250
$2,829,735
€1,900,260
Anonymous
16
Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp),
Saint John the Baptist Preaching to the
Multitude
1,000,000 - 1,500,000
£1,553,250
$2,553,543
€1,714,788
Anonymous
4
Herri met de Bles (Bouvines, active c. 1510) A siege at Thérouanne, with an army led
by Charles V encamped below the city
400,000 - 600,000
£1,049,250
$1,724,967
€1,158,372
Anonymous
18
Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht 1606-1684 Antwerp), A conch shell, a cut and partly-peeled
lemon on a silver platter, a broken pomegranate, shrimps,oysters, a wine-filled roemer, fruit and other objects on
a partly-draped wooden table before a draped window casement, an extensive
landscape beyond
300,000 - 500,000
£541,250
$889,815
€597,540
Anonymous
20
William Hoare of Bath, R.A. (near Eye, Suffolk c.
1707-1792 Bath), Portrait of Ayuba
Suleiman Diallo, called Job ben Solomon (1701-1773), half-length, in African
dress, with the Qu'ran around his neck, in a feigned oval
50,000 - 80,000
£541,250
$889,815
€597,540
Anonymous
24
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London
1775-1851), The Rock of Gibraltar, with
shipping in the foreground
250,000 - 350,000
£505,250
$830,631
€557,796
Anonymous
9
Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam ?1603/4-1677), A winter landscape with skaters and kolf players on a frozen river
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