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Post Auction Catalog(s)
Title: Sotheby's Jean-Leon Gerome Corinthe
Auction held in: Paris
Sale Date: 6/25/08
Sale No: PF8031
No. of Lots: 1
No. of Pages: 20
Condition: Excellent
Please Note: Written In French With A Nice Write-Up On The Lot
WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR
CORINTHIA
A MASTERPIECE BY JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME
PRE-EMPTED BY THE MUSÉE D’ORSAY FOR €467,750
After Old Master Paintings & Drawings, Sotheby's sale of 19th Century Paintings & Drawings brought a total of €2,482,425 from 147 lots.
Pascale Pavageau, head of the 19th Century Painting & Drawings Department, declared herself "satisfied with this evening's results. Sustained bidding, notably for the Winterhalter portraits and works by Russian and Spanish artists, more than compensated for the lesser demand for traditional paintings."
Sculpture specialist Ulrike Goetz was "very happy that a masterpiece by one of the most talented artists of the 19th century should find a place of honour in the Musée d’Orsay. Corinthia was Gérôme's last work, done at the end of his life, and this was the only version of the subject completed during his lifetime."
Corinthia posted the evening's top price of €456,750, a world record for Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). It was consigned by the artist's descendants and acquired by the Musée d’Orsay after fierce bidding from a number of European collectors. This is the original plaster model for the marble version which remained unfinished when Gérôme died in 1904 and was completed by his assistant Emile Decorchement, then shown at the Salon of 1904 (lot 38, estimate €200,000/ 300,000*).
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