Top-100 artists:
We use our proprietary AI - LiveArt Estimate™ to calculate current market value for each artwork. Based on this data LiveArt is able to provide numerous insights into artist and artwork financial performance, including:
See the measure of artist investment performance relative to risk. A higher ratio suggests better risk-adjusted returns, indicating more consistent performance with less risk.
Explore the most prolific periods in an artist's career based on artwork production volume and current market value. It also segments these periods by category, offering insights into when the most valuable pieces were created in each category.
Free to sign up. No credit card required.
| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 11, 2016 | Bonhams | London | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 2 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
Works on Paper
32 x 24 cm (12.6 x 9.45 in)
watercolor and ink on paper
Kay Boyle Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1941),Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York,Beatrice Perry, Grès Gallery, Washington, D.C.,Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich,Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich,Galerie Pudelko, Bonn,
Private Collection, Europe,Galerie Pudelko, Bonn,
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner circa 1999
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Wols, 1942,New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Gouaches by Wols, 1959,Bonn, Galerie Pudelko, Wols: Dreißig Aquarelle und Gouachen aus den Jahren 1938 bis 1951, 1975, no. 11,Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Wols: Die Retrospektive, 2013, p. 112, no. 69, illustrated in colour,This watercolour is part of a larger body of work that Wols gave to the American author and journalist Kay Boyle in Cassis in spring 1941 prior to her return to the United States and that was in the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York in 1942. In the secluded isolation of Cassis, near Marseilles, Wols developed his artistic vocabulary in spite of the daily struggle to survive, following his fourteen-month internment as a German citizen living in Paris after France's declaration of war on September 3rd 1939.When André Breton and Paul Eluard organized the ground-breaking show Exposition internationale du surréalisme at the Galerie Beaux Arts in Paris in 1938 it changed not only the public awareness of the movement, but had equally significant reverberations within the artistic community. It is known that of the many artists involved in the show held at the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Wolfgang Paalen, the latter was one of Wols' close friends during his time in Paris. Wols the auto-didactic draughtsman gained inspiration from the installations, feeding into his own pictoral language
Philipp Gutbrod, Wols, Die Arbeiten auf Papier, vol. IV, Heidelberg 2004, n.p., no. A-207, illustrated in black and white
