landmarks 2 (from 1970)

This page highlights some landmarks in the sale of old master paintings, stamps, manuscripts, furniture and other collectibles.

It covers -

• 1970
• 1980 -
• 1990 -
• 2000 -
• 2005 -

     1970

1970 Juan de Pareja by Velasquez - £2.3m

1970 Gould's Birds of Australia - $16,500

1970 Times-Sotheby Index ceases

1973 Blue Poles (1952) by Jackson Pollock - $2.2m (NGA)

1973 Redouté's Les Lilliacées - £17,000

1975 Poe's Tamerlane - US$123,000

1978 Gutenberg Bible - US$2.4m (Uni of Texas)

     1980

1980 One Cent Black on Magenta British Guyana stamp - £850,000

1981 Alexandria Blue (1846) US stamp - U$1m

1983 Gospels of Henry the Lion (1188) - US$12m

1984 Seascape, Folkestone (1840) by Turner - £7.3m

1984 Inspeximus version of Magna Carta - $US1.8m (Ross Perot)

1985 Baden Green 9 Kreutzer (1851) German stamp - US$1.7m

1985 Landscape with Rising Sun by van Gogh - US$9.9m

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)

1987 Gutenberg Bible (1455) - US$5.3m

1987 Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe (1931) - US$8.7m

1987 Irises (1889) by van Gogh - £29.5m

1988 Acrobat & Young Harlequin by Pablo Picasso - US$37.6m (Mitsukoshi Department Store)

1988 False Start (1959) by Jasper Johns - US$17m

1989 Mao by Andy Warhol - US$0.44m

1989 Les Noces de Pierrette by Picasso - £28m (Tomonori Tsurumaki)

1989 La Promenade by Edouard Manet - US$14.85m

1989 Interchange by de Kooning - US$20.7m

1989 Yo Picasso by Picasso - US$43.5m

1989 Portrait of a Halberdier (1528) by Jacopo Di Carruci, Il Pontormo - US$35.2m

     1990

1990 Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - £44.5m (Ryoei Saito)

1990 Northumberland Bestiary (1250) - US$5m

1990 Kurfurst Herzog Johann von Sachsen and Johann Friedrich von Sachsen by Lucas Cranach the Elder - £4.8m

1990 The Lock by John Constable - £10.7m

1990 Portrait of Dr Gachet by van Gogh - £47.1m (Saito)

1991 Penny Black (1840) UK stamp - US$2.4m

1991 Alnwick Bestiary - £2.7m

1992 Contradiction: Oberon & Titania by Richard Dadd - £1.65m

1992 The Old Horse Guards, London, from St James's Park by Canaletto - £10.1m

1992 autograph manuscript of Brudkronan by August Strindberg - US$0.6m (Royal Library of Sweden)

1993 Roses of Heliogabalus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema - £1.65

1993 Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Michelangelo Buonarotti - US$6.3m

1993 Cornaro Missal (1503) - US$4.18m

1993 Mauritius Blue or Post Office (1847) stamp - US$3.8m

1994 sculptureof Assyrian courtier and winged deity - £7.7m (Noriyoshi Horiuchi)

1994 Leicester/Hammer Codex - US$30.8m (Bill Gates)

1995 Portrait of the Royal Tiger by George Stubbs - £3.2m

1995 Hawaiian Missionaries (1851) Hawaiian stamp - US$2.09m

1995 The Finding of Moses by Alma-Tadema - £1.5m

1995 Let Be, Let be by Colin McCahon - $631,957

1995 Angel Fernandez de Soto by Picasso - US$29.2m (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

1996 Tre Skilling Banco (1855) Swedish stamp - US$2.3m

1996 A View of Geelong by Eugene von Guerard - $1.98m

1996 Adam & Eve (1616) by Hendrick Goltzius - US$1.4m

1996 Boston sampler (1750) - US$1.2m (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)

1997 La rêve by Pablo Picasso - £27.4m

1997 Alma-Tadema Steinway piano - US$1.2m

1997 Litzlberger Keller am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt - US$13.4m

1998 'suppressed' Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - US$1.5m

1998 manuscript of Franz Kafka's The Trial (1920) - US$1.98m

1998 Kreutzer violin by Antonio Stradivari - £947,500

1998 Santa Maria della salute et le grand canal, Venise by Claude Monet - US$11.4m

1998 The Burdett Psalter & Hours (1282) - US$4.5m

1998 Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe by van Gogh - £37.1m

1998 Franklin Z-Grill (1867) US stamp - US$0.93m

1998 Caxton's Canterbury Tales (1476) by Geoffrey Chaucer - US$7.53m (Paul Getty)

1998 Juste-Aurele Meissonier tureen (1735) - US$5.7m

1998 The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (1625) by Poussin - £4.5m

1998 Bush Idyll by Frederick McCubbin - $2.31m

1998 Chippendale secretaire (1773) - £0.67m

1999 Lord & Lady Mildmay of Flete with their children by Alfred Munnings - US$4.3m

1999 Portrait of an Elderly Man (1667) by Rembrandt - £9.3m

1999 Jean-Henri Riesenerin commode - US$10.9m

1999 Noire et Blanche, Paris (1926) photography by Man Ray - US$550,000

1999 The Jacaranda Tree (1977) by Brett Whiteley - $1.98m

1999 Petit danseuse de quatorze ans by Edgar Degas - US$12.3m (François Pinault)

1999 Composition in White, Blue & Yellow (1936) by Piet Mondrian - US$8m

1999 Grande Vague, Sète (1855) photograph by Gustave Le Gray - US$0.84m (Sheik Saud Al-Thani of Qatar)

1999 Nu au fauteil noir by Picasso - US$45.1m

1999 manuscript of E Major Sonata (1816) by Franz Schubert - US$144,900

1999 Still Life with Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit by Cézanne - US$60.5m

1999 Rothschild Prayerbook (1505) - US$12.5m

1999 23 bar manuscript (1817) by Beethoven - US$273,440

1999 Robe jaune et robe harlequin (1941) by Henri Matisse - US$11.3m

1999 Louis XVI Astronomical Perpetual Calendar Regulateur de Parquet clock - £1.9m

1999 Dans les Roses: Madame Leon Clapisson (1882) by Renoir - US$23.5m

1999 Patek Philippe Supercomplication watch (1933) - US$11m

1999 Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) by Winslow Homer - US$36m (Bill Gates)

1999 Le Verrou by Jean-Honoré Fragonard - £5.28m

1999 Factum II (1957) by Robert Rauschenberg - US$12m (MOMA)

1999 Femme Assise dans Un Jardin by Picasso - US$49.5m

     2000

2000 Femme aux Bras Croises by Picasso - £28m

2000 Audubon's Birds of America (1827) - US$8m

2000 The Risen Christ drawing by Michelangelo - US$12.3m

2000 0 Through 9 (1961) by Johns - US$26m (Leonard Lauder)

2000 Portrait of a Lady, aged 62 by Rembrandt - £19.8m

2000 manuscript chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses (1915) - US$1.5m (National Library of Ireland)

2000 Pandora by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - £2.6m

2000 Billy Grace at Cattle Creek by Russell Drysdale - $1.3m

2000 Death of Constable Scanlon by Sidney Nolan - $1.3m

2000 Job Townsend secretary-bookcase - US$8.2m

2000 Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa 1972 by Johnny Tjupurrula - $0.48m

2000 Grande Femme by Alberto Giacometti - $US14.3m

2000 Audubon's Birds of America - US$8m

2001 All That Big Rain Coming From Top Side by Australian Indigenous artist Rover Thomas - $778,750

2001 manuscript of Celine's Voyage au Bout de la Nuits - US$1.7m

2001 Le Moteur by Fernand Leger - US$16.7m

2001 manuscript for Jack Kerouac's On the Road - US$2.4m

2001 Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point by John Glover - $1.76m

2001 Portrait de Mme K. by Joan Miró - US$12.7m

2001 La Rue St Lazare by Camille Pissarro - US$6.6m

2001 1922 Oxford edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence - US$0.85m

2002 Massacre of the Innocents (1609) by Peter Paul Rubens - £49.5m

2002 Susan Sontag's papers and library - US$1.1m (UCLA)

2002 Virgin & Child (1520) sculpture by Riccio - £3.3m

2002 The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty by Pieter Bruegel I - £3.3m

2002 Un Soldat by Gustave Caillebotte - £4.3m

2002 Joyce papers - €12.6m (National Library of Ireland)

2002 Danaide (1913) sculpture by Constantin Brancusi - £12.3m

2002 L'Empire des lumières by Rene Magritte - £8.6m

2002 Pichet et assiette de poires (1893) by Cézanne - £11.4m

2002 Le Pot de géranium (1915) by Juan Gris - £5.7m

2002 bronze baboon sculpture by Picasso - US$6.7m

2002 Orestes by Willem de Kooning - US$13.2m

2002 Au Musée du Louvre (1879) pastel by Edgar Degas - US$16.5m

2002 Grande tête de Diego (1954) by Giacometti - US$13.7m

2003 Tete-beche (1849) French stamp - US$1.1m

2003 Shakespeare First Folio (1623) - £3.5m (Paul Getty)

2003 The Chillingham Bull by Edwin Landseer - £1.27m

2003 Athènes. Temple de Jupiter Olympien (1842) photograph by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey - £0.56m

2003 Woodward & Bernstein Watergate archive - US$5m (Uni of Texas)

2003 Ninth Symphony working manuscript (1824) by Ludwig van Beethoven - £2.13m

2003 Landhaus am Attersee by Klimt - US$26m

2003 Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped by Henry Moore - US$6.2m

2003 Town and River by Egon Schiele - US$11.3m

2003 Nu Couche by Amedeo Modigliani - US$26.9m

2003 La Femme en Rouge et Vert by Fernand Leger - US$22.4m

2003 L'allee des Alyscamps (1888) by van Gogh - US$11.8m

2003 Spring Celebration (1991) by Emily Kngwarreye - $0.46m

2003 The Outstation by Drysdale - $1.94m

2003 Two Shells (1927) photograph by Edward Weston - US$0.41m

2003 Chemin Montant (1881) by Gustave Caillebotte - US$6.7m

2004 No. 6 by Mark Rothko - US$17.4m

2004 Il grande metafisico (1917) by Giorgio de Chirico - US$7.17m

2004 Seaport, Entrance into the City of Opportunity by John Olsen - $540,500

2004 Badminton Cabinet (1720) - £19m (Liechtenstein Museum)

2004 A Young Woman at the virginals by Vermeer - £16m

2004 Mustard Race Riot, 1963 by Andy Warhol - US$15.1m

2004 Garçon à la Pipe (1905) by Picasso - £58m

2004 A Night Scene with an Old Lady Holding a Candle and a Young Boy Taking Light from It by Rubens - £2.4m

2004 Lavender Bay at Dusk 1984 by Whiteley - $1.17m

2004 Mercedes-Benz 38/250 SSK (1929) car - US$7.4m

2004 The Coronation of the Virgin by Bernardo Daddi - £1.5m

2004 Constable-Maxwell cup - £2.4m

2004 Madonna of the Pinks by Raphael - £35m

2004 cello (1760) by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini - £0.34m

2004 The Wise and Foolish Virgins drawing by Edmund Burne-Jones - £038m

2004 Stratocaster guitar - US$0.95m

     2005

Ten Thousand Mile Landscape (1968) by Chang Ta-chien - £5m

Ming jar - £15.7m

Sizilianerin mit grünem Shawl (1912) by Alexej Jawlensky - US$5.16m

pickled shark by Damien Hirst - US$8m (Steven Cohen)

Cache-Cache (1873) by Berthe Morisot - US$4.6m

Yellow Nude (1907) watercolour by Picasso - US$12.5m (Olivier Berggruen)

Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' (1918) stamp - US$2.7m

Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi - US$27.45m

The Bucintoro at the Molo, Venice, on Ascension Day (1754) by Canaletto - £11.4m

View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto by Canaletto - £18.6m

La Blanchisseuse (1886) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - £12.6m

Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. (1967) by Diane Arbus - US$0.47m

John Murray archive - £31.2m (National Library of Scotland)

Kindred Spirits (1849) by Asher Durand - US$35m (Alice Walton)

La nuit (1902) sculpture by Aristide Maillol- US$2.8m

Macclesfield Psalter - US$3.2m

Head of St Joseph by Andrea del Sarto - US$11.8m

Le Grand Canal (1908) by Monet - US$11.5m

Yuan Dynasty blue and white jar - £15.6m

Norman Mailer literary archive - US$2.5m (Uni of Texas)

Femme au grand chapeau (1906) by Kees Van Dongen - £5m

first edition of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) - £0.66m

Young Garden (Rhythms) (1927) by Paul Klee - US$2.8m

Les Constructeurs (1921) by Leger - US$4.8m

Guyuexuan 'Pheasant' vase - US$14.8m

self portrait by Max Beckman - US$16.8m

Elizabeth Taylor by Andy Warhol - US$12.6m

Red Haired Man on a Chair (1962) by Lucian Freud - £4.1m

first edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema naturae (1735) - £0.28m

Cubi XXVIII (1965) by David Smith - US$23.8m

Fabergé Gold, Gilded Silver and Translucent Desk Clock- US$1.24m

Fabergé Gold Cigarette Box - US$1.02m

Homage to Matisse (1954) by Rothko - US$22.4m

dedication copy of Luca Pacioli's Somma di aritmetica geometrica proporzioni e proporzionalita (1494) - £053m

Louis XVI Ebony Bureau Plat & Cartonnier (1770) attributed to Joseph Baumhauer - US$4.7m

Safavid 'Animal & Tree' Carpet - US$2.03m

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