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landmarks 1985 to 2004
This page highlights some landmarks in the sale of old
master paintings, stamps, manuscripts, furniture and other
collectibles.
It covers -
1985
Baden Green 9 Kreutzer (1851) German stamp - US$1.7m
Landscape with Rising Sun by van Gogh - US$9.9m
Joseph
Rocca violin (1845) - £35,200
bottle of Chateau Lafite 1787 - £105,000
1986
Bugatti Royale Berline De Voyager (1931) car - US$6.5m
(William Harrah)
1987
Sunflowers by Van Gogh - US$39.4m (Yasuda Fire
& Marine Insurance)
Gutenberg Bible (1455) - US$5.3m
Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe (1931) - US$8.7m
Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengsai by Richard Serra
- €218,000
Irises (1889) by van Gogh - £29.5m
Antonio Stradivari violin (1711) - £165,000
1988
Acrobat & Young Harlequin by Pablo Picasso
- US$37.6m (Mitsukoshi Department Store)
False Start (1959) by Jasper Johns - US$17m
Joseph Guarneri del Gesu violin (1742) - £572,000
1989
The Mirror (1932) by Picasso - US$26.4m
Mao by Andy Warhol - US$0.44m
Les Noces de Pierrette by Picasso - £28m
(Tomonori Tsurumaki)
La Promenade by Edouard Manet - US$14.85m
Interchange by de Kooning - US$20.7m
Yo Picasso by Picasso - US$43.5m
Portrait of a Halberdier (1528) by Jacopo Di
Carruci, Il Pontormo - US$35.2m
1990
Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- £44.5m (Ryoei Saito)
Beautiful
Grocer (1918) by Modigliani - US$12m
Northumberland Bestiary (1250) - US$5m
Kurfurst Herzog Johann von Sachsen and Johann
Friedrich von Sachsen by Lucas Cranach the Elder
- £4.8m
The Lock by John Constable - £10.7m
Portrait of Dr Gachet by van Gogh - £47.1m
(Saito)
1991
Penny Black (1840) UK stamp - US$2.4m
Alnwick Bestiary - £2.7m
'Risley Park Lanx' - £100,000
1992
Contradiction: Oberon & Titania by Richard
Dadd - £1.65m
The Old Horse Guards, London, from St James's Park
by Canaletto - £10.1m
autograph manuscript of Brudkronan by August
Strindberg - US$0.6m (Royal Library of Sweden)
Antonio Stradivari cello (1691) - £605,000
1993
Roses of Heliogabalus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- £1.65
Cézanne
Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Michelangelo
Buonarotti - US$6.3m
Cornaro Missal (1503) - US$4.18m
Still Life with Apples (1894) by Cézanne
- US$28.6m
Number 19, 1948 (1948) by Pollock - US$2.4m
Study for Portrait on a Revolving Chair (1967)
by Bacon - US$1.2m
White Brushstroke #1 (1965) by Lichtenstein -
US$728,500
The Wine Press (1951) by Matisse - US$13.7
Mauritius Blue or Post Office (1847) stamp - US$3.8m
Fatma, the Mulatto (1912) by Matisse - US$14.3m
Woman in a Garden (1873) by Renoir - US$6.7m
Echo (1953) by Braque - US$3.8m
Jetty at Havre (1868) by Monet - US$9.6m
Danseuses Russes (1895) by Degas - US$6.3m
1994
sculpture of Assyrian courtier and winged deity - £7.7m
(Noriyoshi Horiuchi)
La Lecture de Molière (1731) by de Troy
- US$5.62m
Leicester/Hammer Codex - US$30.8m (Bill Gates)
Apple Blossom Egg (1901) by Faberge - US$861,585
1995
Portrait of the Royal Tiger by George Stubbs
- £3.2m
Hawaiian Missionaries (1851) Hawaiian stamp - US$2.09m
The Finding of Moses by Alma-Tadema - £1.5m
Let Be, Let be by Colin McCahon - $631,957
Angel Fernandez de Soto by Picasso - US$29.2m
(Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Antonio
Stradivari violin (1711) - £386,500
1996
Tre Skilling Banco (1855) Swedish stamp - US$2.3m
The Mirror (1932) by Picasso - US$20m
Henry III gold penny - £145,000
Chinese Fish (1951) by Matisse - US$6.3
Nympheas (1908) by Monet - US$5m
Charing Cross Bridge (1903) by Monet - US$3.5m
Boy with a White Collar (1905) by Picasso - US$12.1m
Thicket (1890) by Van Gogh - US$26.9m
Beautiful Grocer (1918) by Modigliani - US$6.6m
A View of Geelong by Eugene von Guerard - $1.98m
Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff (1916) by Modigliani
- US$9.35m
Adam & Eve (1616) by Hendrick Goltzius -
US$1.4m
Scent of Apricots on the Fields (1944) by Gorky
- US$4m
Boston sampler (1750) - US$1.2m (Boston Museum of Fine
Arts)
Self-Portrait with Raised Elbow (1914) by Schiele
- US$1.87m
Apple Blossom Egg (1901) by Faberge - US$1.128m
1997
La rêve by Pablo Picasso - £27.4m
Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil - US$8.36m
L'Homme au Foulard Rouge (1921) by Soutine -
£1.54m
Alma-Tadema Steinway piano - US$1.2m
Litzlberger Keller am Attersee (1915) by Gustav
Klimt - US$13.4m
1998
'suppressed' Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson - US$1.5m
manuscript of Franz Kafka's The Trial (1920)
- US$1.98m
Kreutzer violin by Antonio Stradivari - £947,500
Santa Maria della salute et le grand canal, Venise
by Claude Monet - US$11.4m
The Burdett Psalter & Hours (1282) - US$4.5m
Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe by van Gogh
- £37.1m
Franklin Z-Grill (1867) US stamp - US$0.93m
Caxton's Canterbury Tales (1476) by Geoffrey
Chaucer - US$7.53m (Paul Getty)
Juste-Aurele Meissonier tureen (1735) - US$5.7m
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (1625)
by Poussin - £4.5m
Bush Idyll by Frederick McCubbin - $2.31m
Chippendale secretaire (1773) - £0.67m
1999
Lord & Lady Mildmay of Flete with their children
by Alfred Munnings - US$4.3m
Portrait of an Elderly Man (1667) by Rembrandt
- £9.3m
Jean-Henri Riesenerin commode - US$10.9m
Noire et Blanche, Paris (1926) photography by
Man Ray - US$550,000
The Jacaranda Tree (1977) by Brett Whiteley -
$1.98m
Petit danseuse de quatorze ans by Edgar Degas
- US$12.3m (François Pinault)
Composition in White, Blue & Yellow (1936)
by Piet Mondrian - US$8m
Grande Vague, Sète (1855) photograph by
Gustave Le Gray - US$0.84m (Sheik Saud Al-Thani of Qatar)
Nu au fauteil noir by Picasso - US$45.1m
manuscript of E Major Sonata (1816) by Franz Schubert
- US$144,900
Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit
by Cézanne - US$60.5m
Rothschild Prayerbook (1505) - US$12.5m
23 bar manuscript (1817) by Beethoven - US$273,440
Robe jaune et robe harlequin (1941) by Henri
Matisse - US$11.3m
Louis XVI Astronomical Perpetual Calendar Regulateur de
Parquet clock - £1.9m
Dans les Roses: Madame Leon Clapisson (1882)
by Renoir - US$23.5m
Patek Philippe Supercomplication watch (1933)
- US$11m
Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) by Winslow Homer
- US$36m (Bill Gates)
Le Verrou by Jean-Honoré Fragonard - £5.28m
Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz ruby red slippers - US$0.66m
Factum II (1957) by Robert Rauschenberg - US$12m
(MOMA)
Femme Assise dans Un Jardin by Picasso - US$49.5m
2000
Femme aux Bras Croises by Picasso - £28m
Audubon's Birds of America (1827) - US$8m
The Risen Christ drawing by Michelangelo - US$12.3m
0 Through 9 (1961) by Johns - US$26m (Leonard
Lauder)
Portrait of a Lady, aged 62 (1632) by Rembrandt
- £19.8m
manuscript chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses (1915)
- US$1.5m (National Library of Ireland)
Pandora by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - £2.6m
Billy Grace at Cattle Creek (1966) by Russell
Drysdale - $1.3m
Death of Constable Scanlon (1946) by Sidney Nolan
- $1.3m
Job Townsend secretary-bookcase - US$8.2m
Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa 1972 by Johnny Tjupurrula
- $0.48m
Grande Femme by Alberto Giacometti - $US14.3m
Audubon's Birds of America - US$8m
Joseph Rocca violin (1845) - £89,500
2001
All That Big Rain Coming From Top Side by Australian
Indigenous artist Rover Thomas - $778,750
manuscript of Celine's Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
(1932) - US$1.7m
Le Moteur (1918) by Fernand Leger - US$16.7m
manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road - US$2.4m
Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point
(1833) by John Glover - $1.76m
Portrait de Mme K. by Joan Miró - US$12.7m
Baffin Island by Lawren Harris - C$2.5m
La Rue St Lazare (1893) by Camille Pissarro -
US$6.6m
1922 Oxford edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by TE Lawrence - US$0.85m
Portrait of a Bearded Man, Bust Length in a Red Doublet
(1633) by Rembrandt - US$12.6m
2002
Massacre of the Innocents (1609) by Peter Paul
Rubens - £49.5m
Susan Sontag's papers and library - US$1.1m (UCLA)
Virgin & Child (1520) sculpture by Riccio
- £3.3m
The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty (1557) by
Pieter Bruegel I - £3.3m
Un Soldat (1881) by Gustave Caillebotte - £4.3m
Joyce papers - €12.6m (National Library of Ireland)
Danaide (1913) sculpture by Constantin Brancusi
- £12.3m
L'Empire des lumières (1954) by Rene Magritte
- £8.6m
Pichet et assiette de poires (1893) by Cézanne
- £11.4m
Le Pot de géranium (1915) by Juan Gris
- £5.7m
bronze baboon sculpture by Picasso - US$6.7m
Orestes (1947) by Willem de Kooning - US$13.2m
Au Musée du Louvre (1879) pastel by Edgar
Degas - US$16.5m
Grande tête de Diego (1954) by Giacometti
- US$13.7m
2003
Tete-beche (1849) French stamp - US$1.1m
Shakespeare First Folio (1623) - £3.5m (Paul Getty)
The Chillingham Bull (1836) by Edwin Landseer
- £1.27m
Athènes. Temple de Jupiter Olympien (1842)
photograph by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey - £0.56m
Woodward & Bernstein Watergate archive - US$5m (Uni
of Texas)
Ninth Symphony working manuscript (1824) by Ludwig van
Beethoven - £2.13m
Landhaus am Attersee by Klimt - US$26m
Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped by Henry
Moore - US$6.2m
Town and River by Egon Schiele - US$11.3m
Nu Couche by Amedeo Modigliani - US$26.9m
La Femme en Rouge et Vert by Fernand Leger -
US$22.4m
L'allee des Alyscamps (1888) by van Gogh - US$11.8m
Spring Celebration (1991) by Emily Kngwarreye
- $0.46m
The Outstation by Drysdale - $1.94m
Two Shells (1927) photograph by Edward Weston
- US$0.41m
Chemin Montant (1881) by Gustave Caillebotte
- US$6.7m
Landscape with arched gateway (1654) by Adam
Pynacker - £317,000
2004
No. 6 by Mark Rothko - US$17.4m
Il grande metafisico (1917) by Giorgio de Chirico
- US$7.17m
Seaport, Entrance into the City of Opportunity
by John Olsen - $0.54m
Badminton Cabinet (1720) - £19m (Liechtenstein Museum)
A Young Woman at the virginals by Vermeer - £16m
Jazz punch bowl (1930) by Viktor Schreckengost
- US$0.25m
Mustard Race Riot, 1963 by Andy Warhol - US$15.1m
Garçon à la Pipe (1905) by Picasso
- £58m
A Night Scene with an Old Lady Holding a Candle and
a Young Boy Taking Light from It by Rubens - £2.4m
Lavender Bay at Dusk 1984 by Whiteley - $1.17m
Mercedes-Benz 38/250 SSK car (1929) - US$7.4m
The Coronation of the Virgin by Bernardo Daddi
- £1.5m
Constable-Maxwell cup - £2.4m
Madonna of the Pinks by Raphael - £35m
cello (1760) by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini - £0.34m
Wise & Foolish Virgins drawing by Edmund
Burne-Jones - £0.38m
Stratocaster guitar - US$0.95m
The Burgomaster of Delft & his daughter (1655)
by Jan Steen - £8.1m
Duesenberg SJ Mormon Meteor car (1935) - US$4.45m
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