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AUCTION REVIEWS

Old Master Paintings

By David D’Arcy

Published: June 1, 2008
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Christie's
Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Portrait of Princess Sybille of Cleves" (1526-27) (est. $4-6 million) fetched $7,657,000, his second-highest price at auction.


Christie's
A record for Cornelis van Haarlem was set when "Hercules and Achelous" (1590) (est. $1.5-2 million) sold for $8,105,000.

Christie's
Important Old Master Paintings
227 lots offered
$48,071,925 sold total
16 percent unsold by value
32 percent unsold by lot
Related Links Francis Bacon Cornelis van Haarlem Cornelisz Lucas Cranach the Elder Jacques-Louis David Thomas Gainsborough Orazio Gentileschi Guercino Nicolas Poussin
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For now, the Old Master market is neither surg­ing nor slumping. “Our sold-by-lot per­centage was within half a percent of Sotheby’s in January,” says Hall. “May­-be some consignors need to have their expectations lowered.”

"Auction Reviews: Old Master Paintings" originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2008 Table of Contents.

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