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AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884 - 1920)
Cariatide
Signed
80 x 50 cm
Estimate: 200 000/300 000 €
Sold 858 590 €* on October 22th
PRESS RELEASE
TURNOVER UP 12%
Rodica Seward and her team are pleased to report a 12% turnover increase for 2011 compared to 2010, with sales totaling €42.6 million. TAJAN’s auction highlights of 2011 included the exceptional Jorge de Brito Collection presented in the fall as well as the summer Monte Carlo sales, which were as successful as ever.
TAJAN’s core specialties –i.e. 17th to 19th Century Furniture and Works of Art, Wine and Spirits, Books and Manuscripts, 20th Century Decorative Arts and Design, Medieval and Renaissance Art, Photography, Asian Art, Islamic Art and Orientalist Paintings, Old Master and Modern Drawings- keep drawing collectors and dealers from all over the world to the Paris and Monte Carlo salerooms, on the phone and to TAJAN’s live online saleroom.
The relatively new real-time online bidding service has met great success in 2011: TAJAN LIVE registered over one million Euros worth of winning online bids and a record was set when an online bidder purchased a work €270,000 - the highest price paid by an online bidder in a live auction in Europe.
TAJAN, which offers close to 3,000 square meters of exhibition space in its Art Deco headquarters located in the heart of Paris, has also a strong presence all over France and abroad. We have permanent offices in Lyon, Bordeaux, the French Riviera, Reims, etc.(France) and in Brussels (Belgium). Our specialists are regularly present in Milan, Turin, Geneva, Lisbon, Madrid, and New York.
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
St Fargeau, 1961-1965
Oil on canvas
63¾ X 44⅞ IN.
Estimate : 800 000/1 200 000€
Sold 1 544 702 €* on October 22th (World Record)
Buffalo
Jade
China, Ming Dynasty, 17th century
Estimate: 500 000/700 000€
Sold 620 318 €* on October 22th
Sonia Delaunay (1885 - 1979)
Minho’s market 1, 1916
Estimate : €400,000-600,000
Sold 496 398 €* on October 22th
*frais compris
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