An “exceedingly uncommon” bronze solid of Egon Schiele’s loss of life masks offered for $24,600—greater than ten occasions its estimated worth—this week at London’s Sloane Avenue Auctions sale of twentieth Century, Trendy and Previous Masters, Islamic and Asian Artwork and Jewellery. (All figures included the client’s premium and charges.)
The masks was made by Gustinus Ambrosi two days after Schiele died from the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. In keeping with Artnet Information. Ambrosi “made 4 copies of the masks: one for himself, one for Schiele’s mom, one for Arthur Roessler (an artwork critic who first acknowledged Schiele’s expertise), and one for his writer Richard Lanyi.” The public sale home stated it’s unclear if extra copies of the plaster solid of Schiele’s face exist.
Ambrosi’s The Demise Masks of Egon Schiele (1918) was considered one of 600 tons throughout the sale, which included Buddhist sculpture, Orientalist work, Persian rugs, artwork deco jewellery, avant-garde furnishings, and Renaissance Madonnas.
Different high tons included a panorama by Sir Alfred Munnings, Dedham Mill Pool (ca. 1930) which took in $62,300, and an oil portray that has been attributed to Renoir, Examine of a lady in a hat, which offered for $49,300.
Two works on paper by Schiele have been offered at Christie’s in Might throughout their twentieth Century Night Sale, each of which had been restituted to the heirs of the Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum, whose artwork assortment was allegedly seized by Nazi Germany earlier than he was killed within the Holocaust. Schwarzes Mädchen (1911), a haunting depiction of a skinny lady with darkish hair, offered for $1.19 million in opposition to an estimate of $700,000 to $1 million. Stehender Akt mit Draperietuch, which had the identical estimate, additionally offered for $1.19 million.
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