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​Chronology : 19th century  1850-1859  1890-1899  1900-1909  1909  1911  1917

1857 The Only 3-Skilling Yellow
1996 SOLD for CHF 2.9M including premium by David Feldman
narrated in 2010 before a private auction sale (see below)

Children love stamps, as it is well known. In 1885, a German boy gets his grandmother's permission to take off stamps from old covers to make money. The dealer to whom he presented his booty is amazed: a 3 Skilling Swedish stamp has a wrong color!

No other copy will never be found, making this stamp the rarest and most desired piece on the philately market. Its story is told on the Treskilling Yellow page of Wikipedia, where it is illustrated. It was canceled in 1857.

It is a mistake and not a fake. This sample has all the characteristics of an 8 Skilling stamp, yellow, unless it bears the engraving of the 3 Skilling, which is green for all other known copies. The hypothesis to keep is that one of 100 clichés of a printing block of 8 Skilling was damaged, and the operator has inadvertently changed it by a 3 Skilling cliché. Nobody went aware of the error, and there is no way of knowing how many wrong copies were produced.

It was sold in 1996 2.9 MCHF including premium by David Feldman.

A scoop of the Telegraph has just announced its forthcoming sale without giving details, and it took me a few navigation tips to find the source: the 3 Skilling Yellow comes on May 22 in Geneva at private auction by David Feldman, with a specific catalog. You are now part of the happy few: here is the link to the catalog shared by the auction house.

David Feldman has done a quick calculation. Reduced to its weight, this small artefact of 26.75 milligrams is valued $ 70 billion per kilogram! Who says better?

POST SALE COMMENT

The Treskilling was sold for over $ 2.3 million to a group of buyers who required that the exact amount was not disclosed . I remind that it was a private auction.


Shared by Wikimedia :
Gul tre skilling banco
Stamps
World Stamps
Decade 1850-1859

1894 The most beautiful of Vampyrs (was made by Munch)
2008 SOLD 38 M$ including premium

This will be one of the stakes (!) of the season: Sotheby's sells a Vampire of Edvard Munch on November 3 in New York.

Chance of the sales or rediscovery of Munch? A week ago, I devoted an article in the Prints group to a lithographic copy of the "Scream". The next day I announced in my weekly preview the arrival of a Vampire, at Sotheby's in London on October 2! (300 K£, lot 81). But now it's even better: I do not speak of an engraving, but of an oil on canvas.

Munch was a very important artist, who knew perfectly how to mingle love and death. His extraordinary lithograph "Madonna" has also been a few months ago the subject of an article on these networks. He was an illustrator concerned about the disclosure of his work, who made his oils on canvas in a small number of examples and added lithographic issues with a virtually identical drawing. As a result, this female "vampire", with her flame-color long hair, kissing on the neck of her lover, is an image that the auction news bring us often.

The Vampire was painted in four copies in 1893-1894, and the example to be sold is the only one in private hands. It is well known in New York, where it had been loaned during ten years to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sotheby's expects more than $ 35 million.

On 7 May 2008, a painting with peaceful subject, Girls on a bridge, was sold in the same auction room at $ 30.8 million including expenses.

POST SALE COMMENT

In the chronology of the sales, the first is the print : 325 K£ including fees.

It is always nice to see an important work acknowledged by the verdict of the market. This is the case for this remarkable Vampire, sold $ 38 million charge included.

The image is shared by Wikimedia :
Edvard Munch - Vampire (1894), private collection
Man and Woman

1894 Alplandskap by Strindberg
2007 SOLD for £ 2.1M including premium by Sotheby's

Link to catalogue.

​1895 The Scream of Nature
2012 SOLD 120 M$ including premium

The Scream by Edvard Munch has every reason to be the most famous image of modern art.

The artist, exalted by the meaning of life, is constantly navigating the limits of a morbid insanity. In 1889, during the Exposition Universelle in Paris, he is fascinated by the intensity of emotions expressed by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec.

In early 1892, Munch lives his own road to Damascus. He sees the sky ablaze at sunset, like an indomitable force of nature which has invaded the fjord in a terrible explosion of colors. He writes in his notebook a short poem stating that the happening had generated an intense fatigue to him.

No doubt he will be mesmerized by this vision for over a year, before daring to translate the memory of his anxiety as a painting and a pastel with a title evocating his inspiration: the Scream of Nature.

It took him another two years to exorcise his anxiety. In 1895, he made a second pastel, 79 x 59 cm, to be sold by Sotheby's in New York on May 2. Now conscious of having created a masterpiece, he prepares on the same year the first lithography. The fourth and last version of Munch's Scream is much later.

The pastel of 1895 is exceptional, and Sotheby's expects $ 80M. This is the only version where the artist has included the poem, hand painted into the frame. The two friends are still there in the distance, but are not any more interested in the scene, leaving the main character lonely struggling with his own dehumanization.

This is the only one of the four artworks to be still in private hands, and it had been little seen outside Norway. It is illustrated on Sotheby's page announcing the sale.

I invite you to watch the video shared by Sotheby's International Realty.

POST SALE COMMENT

Ite missa est. In a few words, everything is told: world record for a work of art, $ 120M including premium.

Rarely a record has been so deserved: last original in private hands, this pastel also marks the top of the emotional maturity of the artist on this theme, with dazzling colors.


The image is shared by Wikimedia.
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Decade 1890-1899

​1896 Loneliness on Beach
2013 SOLD 2.13 M£ including premium

In Paris in 1891, Edvard Munch meditates on the human condition. He is deeply influenced by the art of Gauguin, where the stylization of drawing and the simplification of colors provide an unprecedented strength to the message.

Threatened by melancholy, Munch starts at that time one of his most personal themes, loneliness. A couple is on the beach, but they are quite distant from one another and their mental solitude is complete. This first painting is lost.

In 1896, he comes back to Paris where he perfects his experiences of all printmaking techniques. Aquatint gives the possibility to vary the balance of colors from one copy to another of the same image. He will soon specialize in lithography and woodcut.

On March 20 in London, Christie's sells an aquatint of the young woman on the beach. Well centered, the lonesome figure turns her back to us as in 1891. She is tall, and her straight attitude in her beautiful white dress shows that she has no other problem than her solitude. The only communication she has with her environment is the wind that plays with her very long hair.

Printed in light blue, brown, gray and pink, this print is estimated £ 500K. The image measures 29 x 22 cm on a 45 x 31 cm sheet. Here is the link to the catalog.

This artwork carried out in eleven copies is very rare on the market. This print comes after a recent de-accessioning. During the Nazi forced sales of 1933, it had been purchased by the institute of which its owner had been the keeper.

POST SALE COMMENT

In its great simplicity, this image is one of the most iconic of the engraved work of Munch. The aquatint was sold £ 2.13 million including premium.

The day before, a later print of that scene of loneliness with both characters including the same young woman was sold £ 990K including premium by Sotheby's.
Prints

1898 Norwegian Fields
2019 SOLD for £ 2.35M including premium

In 1891 Harald Sohlberg spends several months in a farm belonging to the Pettersens, a rich family of merchants in Christiania. He has just finished his studies of art and design. The Pettersens order him a painting showing their estate.

Sohlberg begins to prepare drafts of the farm in winter but he does not rush. He uses this theme to develop his personal style. In 1895-1896 he is in Paris. His oil on canvas 73 x 116 cm is completed in 1898. It is titled Modne Jorder (Ripe Fields), probably meaning that it expresses the light of the end of summer.

This landscape is structured in four distances. The background is a mountain lit by the light of dawn. The inhabited part is in the dim light, separated from the field by a fence. The first lights begin to lick the surface of the field. The foreground is a birch slope, forming a kind of framing of leaves painted in impasto. No characters are visible.

Modne Jorder announces the style that will be practiced by Sohlberg throughout his career. He will remain fascinated by the night and by the extreme moments of dawn and dusk. He paints humble landscapes in which he seeks to express a sensitivity. He was probably influenced by Gauguin's art. The extreme colors of his landscapes are similar to the symbolist scenes by Alphonse Osbert.

Modne Jorder is estimated £ 1M for sale by Sotheby's in London on December 11, lot 15. Please watch the video prepared by the auction house. The image is shared by Wikimedia.

Fiskerens hus (the fisherman's house), oil on canvas 94 x 121 cm painted in 1921, was sold for £ 1.2M including premium by Sotheby's on December 14, 2016.

Sohlberg-Modne jorder

1902 Four Girls away from the Guardrail
2016 SOLD for $ 55M including premium

Edvard Munch wants to be the artist of existence. His project for a frieze series on life, love and death makes him busy since 1893 but does not calm the emotional instability of his own life.

The legitimate hope for a happy life mercilessly leads to the forbidden love with the Vampire, the untold abortion of Madonna and the open madness of the Scream. The line and color are a scathing expression, after Gauguin and Van Gogh, before Matisse, Kirchner and Kandinsky.

His characters play the tragedy of a mental loneliness which is not canceled by their presence in or near a group. Sometimes the stage is guarded on one side by an endless railing over which one or more actors will come at some time to meditate while leaning over the water. This theatrical similarity is the terrible common feature between the Scream, paroxysm of terror, and the very peaceful Girls on the bridge.

In 1901 and 1902, Munch painted several versions of Girls on the bridge, with various position of the characters. One of these artworks brings a little more hope than the other ones. Far away from the suicidal railing, it displays a tight group of four in an attitude conducive to opening a discussion but indeed still not to the exchange of secrets.

This oil on canvas 101 x 102 cm painted in 1902 was sold for $ 30.8 million including premium by Sotheby's in New York on 7 May 2008. It comes back in the same auction room on November 14, lot 12. The press release of October 21 announces an estimate in excess of $ 50M.

Edvard Munch’s ‘Girls on the Bridge’ will headline our Impressionist & Modern Art sales this November: https://t.co/tMh6b1ZWyv pic.twitter.com/SF0jHnPYDD

— Sotheby's (@Sothebys) October 21, 2016
Decade 1900-1909

​<1909 Ida in the Empty Room
2015 SOLD for £ 2.05M including premium

From 1899 to 1909, Vilhelm Hammershøi lives on the first floor of a building at Strandgade 30, Copenhagen. Throughout this period, this apartment was the main theme of his work.

The rooms are sparsely furnished and not decorated. The walls are white. His wife Ida is present, often from behind, always quiet and never inactive although her occupation is not often identifiable. The interior doors are opened or closed, the sun sometimes penetrates through the tall glass windows.

Vilhelm is shy and austere, and the idea of a recluse life does not disturb him. His sharp compositions inspired by the Dutch interiors of the seventeenth century oppose the trends of modern art that he yet knew. His questions about the society of his time resulted in a rejection. He is now considered as having been a precursor to Hopper.

The glossy paint has an unexpected effect. The viewer enters the Strandgade apartment as if the artwork was a mirror in a frame and the exhibition room had been cancelled.

This impression is at its best when the contrast between light and shade is important. An oil on canvas 51 x 56 cm painted late in the Strandgade period is estimated £ 700K for sale by Sotheby's in London on May 21, lot 12.

An exquisite interior by Vilhelm Hammershøi will be featured in our 19thC sale in #London pic.twitter.com/anE2WCfiyD

— Sotheby's (@Sothebys) May 15, 2015
1909

1911 Storm on the Baltic
2020 SOLD for $ 7.3M including premium

The extreme conditions exacerbate the feelings of the men of the North. Emil Nolde was born near a village in Schleswig-Holstein, in a border area between Germany and Denmark. He is not a symbolic colorist like Marc or Kandinsky : he expresses colors with an intensity nourished by his religious faith, overcoming the Fauvists.

Nature is more beautiful when it is hostile. His stormy skies are as menacing as the terrible red sky of Munch's Scream. The waves tend towards abstraction as the Alpine storms by Strindberg had done. This extremism of shapes and colors is also inspired from van Gogh.

Nolde failed to integrate into the Berlin expressionist movements. Frustrated and disappointed, he finds himself facing the Baltic Sea on his beloved island of Als. In the autumns of 1910 and 1911, he paints a series of 20 scenes of abstract and slashing swell, titled Herbstmeer.

On October 6 in New York, Christie's sells Herbstmeer XVI, lot 10 estimated $ 6M, oil on canvas 74 x 89 cm painted in 1911, in its artist's frame 93 x 108 cm. The clouds form a jagged yellow spiral on a violet background.

Nolde's primordial and vigorous expressionism appealed to Goebbels, especially since the artist belonged to the Danish section of the National Socialism. He was however one of the main "degenerate" artists vilified by Hitler and his art did not escape confiscation.

1911

1912 Interior with Daylights
​2018 SOLD for $ 5M including premium

From 1899 Vilhelm and Ida Hammershøi live in an ancient high-ceilinged apartment in Strandgade 30. Studies of light and even of dust bring atmosphere and presence to the views of scarcely furnished rooms where sometimes the young woman appears quietly, often from behind, never in a narrative intention.

In 1909 the couple moves to a house in Bredgade 25, in another part of Copenhagen. In this short period that ends with a new move in 1913, Hammershøi seeks to renew his original creativity but exhausts his fragile health on female nude studies.

Dated 1910, an Interior with easel preserved at the National Gallery of Denmark shows a corner of an empty room in Bredgade, illuminated through a visible glass door on the left edge. The light projected on the dull wall is blurred. In this phase the artist experiments with the inclusion within grey of bright colors that are visible only by close inspection but contribute to the overall effect in the manner of the Impressionists.

In 1912 he paints an identical view that goes much further in the experimentation of lights like some tribute to the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century whom the artist admired.

The light of the beginning or end of the day comes from the same source but is here more sunny. Through an interior door, a similar light appears like an echo in a back room. Another luminous trace is visible on the floor, coming from a window out of field on the other side. The artist thus shows in a single view both the morning and evening lightings into the room where he has installed his easel, according to the new principles of multiple angles of the Futurism.

This seemingly simple composition is in fact a mystery to which the easel, already placed in the same position in 1910, contributes greatly. It is facing the wall, so we cannot see if a work is going on. The currently absent artist could only observe the other back wall, which we imagine as empty as the rest of the room.

This oil on canvas 78 x 70 cm is estimated $ 1.5M for sale by Christie's in New York on October 31, lot 14. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

#Bestof2018 #VilhelmHammershøi’s ‘Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25’ – “The picture’s rarity and importance, coupled with the renewed market interest in 19th-century art, piqued the interest of 10 bidders and pushed the final price to $5,037,500”https://t.co/QxOvw7Ergg pic.twitter.com/TzYGzzMs5u

— Christie's (@ChristiesInc) December 28, 2018

1917 Indische Tänzerin by Nolde
2017 SOLD for $ 5.3M including premium by Christie's

Link to catalogue.
1917

​2015 Mega Cars by Koenigsegg
​2019 SOLD for CHF 4.6M including premium

The Swedish brand Koenigsegg, founded in 1994, is steadily pursuing and overcoming three records for which its only competitors are Bugatti and Hennessey : road speed, time 0-300-0 and engine power.

In 2014 a variant of the Koenigsegg Agera R is equipped with an engine of unprecedented power : 1360 hp, corresponding to 1 Megawatt. It weighs 1360 Kg and this conjunction of numbers provides the name for the model : One:1. This power has been exceeded on later models, the Regera and the Jesko.

0-300-0 is the time taken by the vehicle to reach 300 Km/h on the road and come back to a standstill. It assesses the progress of the technologies developed by Koenigsegg : 29.2 seconds in 2008 by a CCX, 21.19 seconds by an Agera R in 2011, 17.95 seconds in 2015 by a One:1.

The speed ​​homologation in the Guinness Book of Records considers a two-way average for a production car that has been built to more than 30 units. It is held since 2017 by a Koenigsegg Agera RS at 447 Km/h.

This record will not last long. A Bugatti pre-prototype based on a long-tailed Chiron reached a top speed of 490.484 Km/h, achieving its goal of exceeding 300 mph. The feat, recorded by the TUV certification office, was revealed on 2 September 2019. Koenigsegg congratulated Bugatti and announced that a Jesko 300 was in preparation. The next threshold will be 500 Km/h.

The One:1 was built in 1 prototype and 6 commercial cars. One of them made in 2015 will be sold without reserve by Bonhams on September 29 at the Bonmont golf club above Lake Geneva, lot 24. For this car in as new condition with less than 600 Km, the announced estimate is CHF 1.8M to 2.3M. In a blog post released on June 28, Koenigsegg considers that this value is below the market price.
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