Top 10 Art Auction Prices in April
The top ten most expensive works of fine art sold at auction in April 2008 according to artnet's
Price Database, sold for a total of over $56.1 million.
1.
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
- Title: Hercules and Achelous
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 75.6 x 96.1 in. / 192 x 244 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Sold For: 8,105,000 US$ PREMIUM
2.
Liu Xiaodong
- Title: Battlefield realism: The eighteen arhats (set of 18)
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 78.7 x 39.4 in. / 200 x 100 cm.
- Sale Of: Sotheby's Hong Kong: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
- Sold For: 61,927,500 HKD (7,953,290 US$) PREMIUM
3.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Title: Portrait of Princess Sybille of Cleves, Wife of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous of Saxony
- Medium: oil on panel
- Size: 21 x 15 in. / 53.3 x 38.1 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Sold For: 7,657,000 US$ PREMIUM
4.
Jacques-Louis David
- Title: Portrait of Ramel de Nogaret
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 23.4 x 18.3 in. / 59.4 x 46.5 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Sold For: 7,209,000 US$ PREMIUM
5.
Zhang Xiaogang
- Title: Bloodline: The big family no. 3
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 70.5 x 90.2 in. / 179 x 229 cm.
- Sale Of: Sotheby's Hong Kong: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
- Sold For: 47,367,500 HKD (6,083,363 US$) PREMIUM
6.
Thomas Gainsborough
- Title: A wooded landscape with a herdsman, cows and sheep near a pool
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 25 x 30 in. / 63.5 x 76.2 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Sold For: 5,753,000 US$ PREMIUM
7.
Guo Bochuan
- Title: The Forbidden City
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 28.7 x 35.8 in. / 73 x 91 cm.
- Sale Of: Sotheby's Hong Kong: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
- Sold For: 27,207,500 HKD (3,494,233 US$) PREMIUM
8.
Michele Marieschi
- Title: A stonemason's yard on the Grand Canal, Venice, with a view of palazzi (+ Ducal Palace with the campanile; pair)
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 21.6 x 28.6 in. / 54.9 x 72.7 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Sold For: 3,401,000 US$ PREMIUM
9.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
- Title: The white rose and the red rose
- Medium: painted gesso on hessian with glass
- Size: 38.5 x 39.5 in. / 97.8 x 100.3 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's London: Wednesday, April 30, 2008
- Sold For: 1,700,500 BP (3,353,381 US$) PREMIUM
10.
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin
- Title: The forest clearing
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 46.9 x 67.2 in. / 119 x 170.8 cm.
- Sale Of: Christie's New York: Friday, April 18, 2008
- Sold For: 3,177,000 US$ PREMIUM