The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 2 | Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Day Sale
New York – Friday, October 21, the second in a series of landmark sales took place at Christie’s, The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 2 | Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Day Sale. The auction showcased a selection of 105 Eighteenth-Century Venetian view paintings, Impressionist and Nineteenth-Century landscapes and studies of the female form, and still lifes. It was a white glove sale, selling 145% hammer above low estimate. The sale totaled $33,871,230, bringing the running total of the collection to $113,280,130 to benefit the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for the Arts.
Paysage avec cyprès et oliviers aux environs de Nice by Henri Matisse was the top lot of the sale. It sold for nearly 15 times its low estimate, achieving $2,220,000. Paul Gauguin’s Fleurs et livres and Alfred Sisley’s Moret-sur-Loing au soleil couchant saw fantastic results; both surpassed their high estimate to sell for $1,620,000 each. British masters saw successful results as well. Midsummer Night or Iris by John Atkinson Grimshaw sold for $680,400, more than four times its low estimate. Interior, the Long Gallery at Sutton Place by Sir Winston Spencer Churchill quadrupled its low estimate, achieving $630,000.
Live sales of The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection will continue tomorrow with Volume 3 | English and European Furniture, Porcelain and Silver and will conclude on Sunday with Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture & Decorative Arts. Online sales of The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection will continue through Tuesday, October 25: