German artist Emilie Preyer’s Still Life with Peaaches and Grapes on a Table sold for $30,000 during the Feb. 1, 2018 auction at Sotheby’s. The painting was one of dozens from the Prendergast Library’s classic art collection that was to be sold in order to raise funding for operational costs.
NEW YORK – Fourteen more paintings from the James Prendegast Library Art Collection sold at auction on Thursday.
According to the Sotheby’s website, the 14 paintings that sold as part of the “Fine Old Master & 19th Century European Art,” had a combined hammer price with buyer’s premium $139,375. After the buyers’ premium is removed, the library would net $111,500.
With a couple pieces selling well above their estimated price, the total amount from Thursday’s auction was considerably higher than the combined estimated value of the 14 paintings, which was between $45,500 and $68,500.
In addition, one painting – the most valuable of the 15 up for auction on Thursday – Leon-Jean-Basile Perrault’s Sleep, Baby, Sleep – did not receive a bid matching the reserve price and as a result, did not sell. That painting was estimated to be worth $30,000 to $50,000.
A complete list of each painting that was sold can be found below.
Counting Thursday’s auction, a total of 27 classic oil paintings from the Prendergast Art Collection have now been sold, with the library receiving an estimated net of $881,000 – though that number has not been confirmed by library officials.
It’s believed there are over a dozen more paintings that have yet to be sold by the library. The total value of the library’s art collection prior to any painting be sold was listed at $1.17 million.
Last year the library board approved the sale of the vast majority of its art collection – which featured dozens of classic 19th and early 20th century oil paintings from various internationally known artists – in order to help address a shortfall in funding from both donations and the city.
In addition to the 27 paintings that have sold at auction, another six paintings have also been sent to auction, but failed to sell.
The library plans to place the money generated from the auctions into its endowment fund so it can generate more interest, with that interest then being applied to annual operating budgets.
PRENDERGAST PAINTINGS SOLD
(as of Feb. 2, 2018)
Feb. 1, 2018 Southeby’s Auction
- Wilhelm Schutze’s The Schoolmaster
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold for $8,125 (Hammer price with buyer’s premium) - Leo Herrmann’s Painting a Madonna
Estimate: $1,000-$1,500
Sold for $1,000 (Hammer price with buyer’s premium) - Alberto Pasini’s The Passageway
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold for $7,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Paul Jean Clays’ Port Of Ostend
Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
Sold for $2,250 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Georges-Jean-Marie Haquette’s The Fisherman’s Wife
Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
Sold for $4,375 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Luis Jimenez Aranda’s Washday on the Seine
Estimate: $5,000-$7,000
Sold for $27,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Paul Louis Narcisse Grolleron’s Sharpening the Knife
Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
Sold for $2,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour’s Reminiscences of the War
Estimate: $2,000-$3,000
Sold for $3,750 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Emilie Preyer’s Still Life with Peaches and Grapes On A Table
Estimate: $5,000-$7,000
Sold for $30,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Emilio Sanchez Perrier’s Autumn
Estimate: $8,000-$12,000
Sold for $17,500 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Charles-Olivier de Penne’s Awaiting the Master
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold for $6,875 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Jean-Baptiste Robie’s Roses
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold for $21,250 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A.’s A Landscape with Herdsmen, Animals
Estimate: $5,000-$7,000
Sold for $5,250 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - John Lewis Brown’s On Guard
Estimate: $1,500-$2,000
Sold for $2,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
Jan. 18, 2018 – Post Auction Sale Approved by Library Board
- Jehan-Georges Vibert – LE NOUVEAU COMMIS
Estimate $30,000 – $40,000
(Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction)
Sold for $25,000 Post-Auction
Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
- Giovanni Boldini – IN THE GARDEN
Estimate $400,000 — 600,000
Sold for $399,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Alfred Stevens – LA NEIGE
Estimate $70,000 — 100,000
Sold for $68,750 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Anton Mauve – CARTING THE LOG
Estimate $10,000 — 15,000
Sold for $40,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
Oct. 28, 2017 Stair Galleries Auction
- Otton Von Thoren – THE RELAY
Estimate $2,000-4,000
Sold for $5,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Walter Gay – AFTER THE HUNT
Estimate $ 5,000-10,000
Sold for $4,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - Douglas Duder – EAST RIVER
Estimate $ 800-1,200
Sold for $900 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
October 6, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction
- Jasper Francis Cropsey – LAKE GEORGE
Estimate: $30,000 — 50,000
Sold for $275,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
- Chauncey Foster Ryder – CAMEL’S HUMP
Estimate $3,000 – 5,000
Sold for $16,250 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - William Trost Richards –EBBING TIDE
Estimate $15,000 — 20,000
Sold for $15,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
- Chauncey Foster Ryder – SNOW IN NOVEMBER
Estimate $3,000 — 5,000
Sold for $11,875 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium) - John Francis Murphy – THE DAY IS DONE
Estimate $1,200 — 1,800
Sold for $5,625 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
- Charles Warren Eaton – AN OCTOBER SUNSET
Estimate $3,000 — 4,000
Sold for $4,750 (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
PRENDERGAST PAINTINGS UNSOLD
(as of Feb. 2, 2018)
- Charles Victor Thirion – PAYSANNE DE LA CREAUSE
Estimate $50,000 – $70,000
Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction - Jules Joseph Lefebvre – FATIMA
Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction - Emilio Sánchez Perrier – ENVIRONS DE TANGERE
Estimate $80,000 – $120,000
Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction - Martín Rico y Ortega – PONTE DELL’ANGELO
Estimate $80,000 – $120,000
Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction - Johann Mari Henri ten Kate – BEHIND THE RAMPARTS
Estimate $50,000 – $70,000
Unsold at Nov. 21, 2017 Sotheby’s Auction - Leon-Jean-Basile Perrault’s Sleep, Baby, Sleep
estimate: $30,000-$50,000
Unsold at Feb. 1, 2018 Sotheby’s Auction
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