Akseli Gallen-Kallela oil painting auction received last night a surprising turn of events, when Sotheby’s pulled the book in the middle of everything off the auction block in New York.
sotheby’s London unit was today tight-lipped about what happened. According to it, the work was withdrawn from the seller’s wishes.
the fire on the tip-painting price estimate was 1.6 and 2.3 million euros, and the auction house sotheby’s works in the pre-marketing estimated that the painting could hit the board Gallen-kallela’s art for the latest sales record.
It was made last summer, when Gallen-kallela’s lake view was sold at sotheby’s London auction a little less than 800 000 euros.
Traditional, Finnish Hagelstam’s auction house art expert Mikael Schnitt no other career in any other case, where a Finnish work of art should be pulled out of the international auction in the middle of everything.
I don’t remember similar.
Schnitt has evaluated the art for over 30 years.
Withdrawal get rumors
Schnitt does not take a position on the Gallen-Kallela fire on the tip of destiny.
She told the general, that, more generally, the work is deleted because it is suspected to be a fake.
Another reason is that the owner relationships are unclear, Schnitt said.
She told me that sometimes the client can also be owed to the auction house. Then the auction house can put the customer objects to the sale to recover this debt. And if the customer get a debt on time out, the auction house to pull the sale of an object or a work of art out of. International auction houses organize their customers also loans.
the fire on the tip like out bets raise speculations, and last June the rumors are set in motion when two Fabergé objects were withdrawn from auction in London. Schnitt went to see them when they were featured in the auction above.
Then there were rumors that someone had offered objects so much that they no longer desired the auction. Or objects had been put into the sale of debts against, Schnitt said.
the fire on the tip end first Vaasa
in New York again Tuesday and Wednesday night between trade had fire on the tip belong to private collections, where it ended in the early 1970s. The owner does not want to give his name or citizenship to the public.
originally painting to get his second Amanda Revell , and the book remained in family possession until the 1970s.
Gallen-Kallela started the fire on the tip of the painting Kuusamo-paanajärvi in 1892 and finished it probably in Helsinki or Sääksmäen a couple years later. Paanajärvi is now part of Russia.
the Ateneum art museum’s collections is on the same subject on the paper to make a gouache painting.
you Can discuss the topic at 22 until now.
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