Lawrences January Fine Art auction in Crewkerne yielded exceptional results, with bidders securing remarkable artworks across various periods and styles. The sales saw outstanding prices throughout with notable highlights demonstrating the continued strength of the art market.
The sale included six exceptional works from a private collection in Dorset that showed the late owner’s breadth of taste. A skilful still life of a cut pie with a lemon, glassware and a nautilus shell upon a dish is ascribed to the Dutch master Willem Claesz. Heda (1594 – 1680). This oil on panel, exemplifying the Dutch love of textures and composition, bears a signature and date (1642) and was bought for £81,250.
Three further highlights from the same collection comprised superb oils by Eugene Boudin (1824-1898), the French master of beach scenes, marines and skies. Having trained under Jean Francois Millet, his love of painting outdoors led to his encouraging a young Claude Monet to do likewise. Boudin exhibited with the Impressionists in their first exhibition in 1874 and he is considered to be the vital transitional figure between the Romanticism of Corot and ‘La Vie Moderne’ as shown by the Impressionists. The three pictures, depicting boats and bustling life at Deauville, Trouville and on the River Toques achieved £96,250 with a total for the collection of six paintings of £222,500.
With strong bidding across all categories, Lawrences January Fine Art auction once again demonstrated the strength of the market and the enduring appeal of exceptional antiques and fine art resulting in a sale total of just under £1.1m.
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