Bloomsbury Modern Prints Auction Results
Bloomsbury Auctions held a two day Modern Prints sale on 4th and 5th December.
The extremely rare Elongated Triangles by Bridget Riley (lot 128) was snapped up for £14400, comfortably over the lower estimate of £10000. Amongst the fresh-to-the-market William Greengrass and Artists of the Grosvenor School, two Sybil Andrews linocuts printed in colours (lots 215 and 216) made £9600 and £9000, also over estimate. Jazz Musicians by William Greengrass (lot 219), a very unusual 1930s linocut printed in colours and possibly a proof, fetched £10500, over double the higher estimate while lot 228 a rare linocut entitled Harvest by Ethel Spowers (only five other linocuts by her have appeared at auction in the last 25 years), sold for a resounding £7200, well over double the lower estimate.
Lot 380 was a signed 1958 Picasso lithograph Le Cavalier, printed in colours; it went for £7800 (estimate £5000-7000). Amongst the Contemporary Prints, Pyronin Y a signed aquatint by Damien Hirst printed in colours sold for £13200, just over the lower estimate, while a complete set of five signed silkscreens by Julian Opie, This is Shanoza I-V made a very healthy £10200 (estimated £7000-9000). Andy Warhol is an evergreen and his John Wayne signed and dated silkscreen printed in colours (lot 608), made a year before his death, sold for £24000, easily over the lower estimate.
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