Auction 19th Century Paintings - 18 September 2009
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3205   A150/3205
HERMANUS KOEKKOEK the Elder
(Middleburg 1815-1882 Haarlem)
On the Zuider Zee. 1860.
Oil on canvas. 34x55 cm.

Sold for CHF 84 000 buyer's premium incl.

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3223   A150/3223
ANDREAS SCHELFHOUT
(1787 The Hague 1870)
Canal landscape in winter.
Ca. 1850. Oil on canvas.
65x93 cm.

Sold for CHF 264 000 buyer's premium incl.

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3230   A150/3230
PETR PETROVICH VERESHCHAIN
(Perm 1834-1886 St. Petersburg)
Interior of Preobraschenski cathedral.
Oil on canvas. 59.5x85 cm.

Sold for CHF 537 500 buyer's premium incl.

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3237   A150/3237
JULIEN DUPRÉ
(1851 Paris 1910)
Hay making. Oil on canvas.
60x82 cm.

Sold for CHF 44 400 buyer's premium incl.

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3245   A150/3245
ALEXANDER KOESTER
(Bergneustadt 1864-1932 Munich)
Family of ducks at the water.
Oil on canvas. 73x120 cm.

Sold for CHF 204 000 buyer's premium incl.

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3254   A150/3254
EUGEN VON BLAAS
(Albano 1843-1931 Venice)
Boy eating an apple. 1886.
Oil on canvas. 68x48 cm.

Sold for CHF 156 000 buyer's premium incl.

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The 19th Century Paintings department at Koller demonstrated that this sector can hold its own even when Russian buyers, who dominated this market in recent years, show extreme selectivity in their purchases. The sale was led by classic Dutch, German and French works, reflecting the wide variety of national schools represented in this sale. The top lot was nonetheless by a Russian artist, Petr Petrovitch Vereschain, whose interior of the Preobraschenski Cathedral in Kiev (lot 3230) realized CHF 537 000 / EUR 370 500. Dutch masters sold strongly, including Andreas Schelfhout, with a winter canal landscape (lot 3223, CHF 264 000 / EUR 182 000) and a Zuider Zee landscape by Hermanus Koekkoek the Elder (lot 3205, CHF 84 000 / EUR 58 000). A wonderful duck painting by Alexander Max Koester (lot 3245) sold for CHF 204 000 / EUR 140 800, one of the highest prices ever realized for a work by this artist.