Picture perfect
April 2024
A range of works by the Czech expressionist artist Ernest Neuschul were warmly received when offered recently in a specialist sale by Greenslade Taylor Hunt.
The firm’s new, light and airy premises at North Petherton were transformed into a gallery for the occasion which drew bidding from across Europe, particularly on-line from within the Czech and Slovak Republics.
It proved to be a sell-out or ‘white glove’ affair as all 46 lots were bought for a total of £47,300.
Gracing the front cover of the catalogue, an abstract reclining nude ‘The dream of Miss Universe’, painted in 1964, fetched the joint top price of the day, selling for £3,200.
Another figural piece, ‘The Grandmother’, from 1943, was bid to £1,900, while ‘Female Guitar Player’ saw the hammer fall at £1,600.
The pop-art inspired ‘Three unclothed mannequins’, a large bright canvas completed in 1964, also sold for £3,200.
Part of the appeal lay in the fact that the stock was all fresh to the market, with an outstanding provenance, having come directly from the family of the artist.
Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s next specialist sale will be of collectables and selected antiques, on Wednesday, April 24. For more details, please contact The Somerset Auction Rooms on 01278 410250.
The firm’s new, light and airy premises at North Petherton were transformed into a gallery for the occasion which drew bidding from across Europe, particularly on-line from within the Czech and Slovak Republics.
It proved to be a sell-out or ‘white glove’ affair as all 46 lots were bought for a total of £47,300.
Gracing the front cover of the catalogue, an abstract reclining nude ‘The dream of Miss Universe’, painted in 1964, fetched the joint top price of the day, selling for £3,200.
Another figural piece, ‘The Grandmother’, from 1943, was bid to £1,900, while ‘Female Guitar Player’ saw the hammer fall at £1,600.
The pop-art inspired ‘Three unclothed mannequins’, a large bright canvas completed in 1964, also sold for £3,200.
Part of the appeal lay in the fact that the stock was all fresh to the market, with an outstanding provenance, having come directly from the family of the artist.
Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s next specialist sale will be of collectables and selected antiques, on Wednesday, April 24. For more details, please contact The Somerset Auction Rooms on 01278 410250.