Top 10 Prices in July Auctions
The top ten most expensive works of fine art sold at auction in July 2006 according to artnet's
Price Database, sold for a total of over $52 million.
1.
Lodovico Carracci
- Title: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 45 x 59.8 in. / 114.3 x 151.8 cm.
- Estimate: Christie's London: Thursday, July 6, 2006
- Sold For: 7,400,000 BP (13,703,703 US$) PREMIUM
2.
Pieter Brueghel II
- Title: The Procession to Calvary
- Medium: oil on panel
- Size: 48 x 66.5 in. / 122 x 169 cm.
- Estimate: Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
- Sold For: 5,160,000 BP (9,555,555 US$) PREMIUM
3.
Hubert Robert
- Title: Colonnade et jardins du Palais Médici: Gentlemen sketching in an Italianate garden (+ Restes du palais du Pape Jules: An architectural capriccio with haymakers; pair)
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 29.5 x 25.1 in. / 75 x 63.8 cm.
- Estimate: Christie's London: Thursday, July 6, 2006
- Sold For: 3,368,000 BP (6,237,037 US$) PREMIUM
4.
Jan van Huysum
- Title: Still life of fruit upon a marble ledge, a bird's nest to the right and a basket of flowers above, insects throughout
- Medium: oil on panel
- Size: 31.6 x 23.7 in. / 80.2 x 60.3 cm.
- Estimate: Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
- Sold For: 3,256,000 BP (6,029,629 US$) PREMIUM
5.
Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Title: Two girls on a bed playing with their dogs
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 29.3 x 23.3 in. / 74.3 x 59.3 cm.
- Estimate: Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
- Sold For: 2,696,000 BP (4,992,592 US$) PREMIUM
6.
Jan van Huysum
- Title: A festoon of flowers hanging from a red ribbon in a stone niche with a bird's nest
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 20.5 x 15.5 in. / 52.1 x 39.4 cm.
- Estimate: Christie's London: Thursday, July 6, 2006
- Sold For: 1,576,000 BP (2,918,518 US$) PREMIUM
7.
Canaletto
- Title: Venice, a view of the Piazzetta looking north
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 32.2 x 50.5 in. / 81.7 x 128.2 cm.
- Estimate: Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
- Sold For: 1,329,600 BP (2,462,222 US$) PREMIUM
8.
Francesco Guardi
- Title: Venice, a view of the lagoon with the Fondamenta Nuove looking towards the Casino degli Spiriti
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 12.6 x 20.7 in. / 32 x 52.6 cm.
- Estimate: Sotheby's London: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
- Sold For: 1,240,000 BP (2,296,296 US$) PREMIUM
9.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
- Title: The Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity (a modello)
- Medium: oil on panel
- Size: 26 x 20.1 in. / 66.1 x 51.1 cm.
- Estimate: Christie's London: Thursday, July 6, 2006
- Sold For: 1,128,000 BP (2,088,888 US$) PREMIUM
10.
François Boucher
- Title: Le sommeil de Vénus
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Size: 46.5 x 74.8 in. / 118 x 190 cm.
- Estimate: Christie's London: Thursday, July 6, 2006
- Sold For: 1,128,000 BP (2,088,888 US$) PREMIUM