10 Most Expensive Artworks Sold in August Auction
The top ten most expensive works of fine art sold at auction in August 2004, according to
artnet’s Price Database, sold for a total of more than $1.6 million.
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Title: The Rescue
Sale of: Barridoff Galleries: August 6, 2004
Estimate US$ 20,000 - 30,000
Sold for: US$ 281,000 Premium
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Maurice de Vlaminck
Title: Le pont de chemin de fer, Pontoise
Sale of: Tajan: August 4, 2004
Estimate: US$ US$ 185,643 - 247,524
Sold for: US$ 179,421 Premium
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John Henry Olsen
Title: Landscape and night heron
Sale of: Christie's Melbourne: August 23, 2004
Estimate: US$ 143,163 - 214,745
Sold for: US$ 171,080 Premium
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Tracey Moffatt
Title: Something more
Sale of: Christie's Melbourne: August 23, 2004
Estimate: US$ 143,163 - 214,745
Sold for: US$ 162,526 Premium
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Ian Fairweather
Title: Outside the Walls of Peking
Sale of: Christie's Melbourne:August 23, 2004
Estimate: US$ 64,423 - 85,898
Sold for: US$ 153,972
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Seymour Joseph Guy
Title: Untitled
Sale of: Estates Unlimited Auction Gallery: August 5, 2004
Estimate: US$ 60,000 - 80,000
Sold for: US$ 149,500 Premium
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Joseph Farquharson
Title: When day expiring in the west, the shepherd tends to his flock
Sale of: Bonhams Edinburgh: August 20, 2004
Estimate: US$ 36,363 - 54,545
Sold for: US$ 140,602 Premium
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Robert Salmon
Title: A departing brig off Maryport Harbor
Sale of: Barridoff Galleries: August 6, 2004
Estimate: US$ 125,000 - 175,000
Sold for: US$ 138,000
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Edward Moran
Title: Lifting the fish pound, Orient Bay, Long Island, New York
Sale of: Barridoff Galleries: August 6, 2004
Estimate: US$ 60,000 - 90,000
Sold for: US$ 132,500 Premium
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Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
Title: White sands, Iona
Sale of: Bonhams Edinburgh: August 20, 2004
Estimate: US$ 72,727 - 109,090
Sold for: US$ 120,529 Premium
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