Christie's London December Sale
November 7 2024
Picture: Christie's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Christie's London have just uploaded their upcoming Old Masters Part I sale online. The live sale will take place on 3rd December 2024 at 6.30pm.
The top lot of the sale is this rather fine Andalusian Horse by Van Dyck (pictured), estimated at £2m - £3m, a study which was executed for the artist's equestrian portrait of Charles V now in the Uffizi, Florence. Here's the full press release explaining its significance, including the fact the reverse contains the 'only surviving landscape in oil by Van Dyck'. The picture last made £773,750 when sold in the same rooms back in 2000, albeit in an apparently very yellowed state!
Amongst the other highlights of the sale are a commedia dell'arte scene by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo at £1m - £1.5m, a Semon of St John the Baptist by Pieter Brueghel II at £800k - £1.2m, and a pair of Venetian views by Michele Marieschi at £600k - £800k. The sale also contains several high-value nineteenth century works, including pictures by Francesco Hayez, Gustave Courbet and Michael Peter Ancher.
