Enigma by Adrian Ghenie was adjudicated on Thursday evening to 80,000 euro at the post-war and contemporary art auction organized by Artmark in the Capital City.
At this session, the art works purchased at high amounts also included: The Couple and The black bull by Ion Tuculescu - 55,000 euro, respectively 32,500 euro, Iris by Paul Neagu - 10,000 euro, A strange outskirts of Jules Perahim - 18,000 euro, Cosmos by Sultana Maitec - 12,000 euro, Weekend 2 by Serban Savu - 9,000 euro.
Still on Thursday evening, an auction of rare manuscripts and books also took place, including anthologies, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and as a premiere for Romania, three signed etchings by Rembrandt.
The works Young man with velvet cap (Ferdinand Bol) and Three Trees by Rembrandt van Rijn were adjudicated for 9,000 euro and 4,250 euro respectively. Another work signed by Rembrandt has not been purchased. Among the adjudicated pieces, there was also the lithography Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - 2,250 euro.
Several rare maps have also been bought, such as Dacia after Geography of Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries (around 1522) for 1,400 euro, another map with the Roman Empire and barbarian states in the year 400, for 800 euro, his the work Letters on Demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott, with Truslove and Hanson, London (London, 1831) binding, for 1,000 euro, three-volume The History of Freemasonry by Robert Freke Gould (Edinburgh, 1880) for 1,600 euro, Heraldry by John Guillim, VI reunited edition (London, 1724), with hand colored etchings, 3,000 euro, a collection of 16 volumes History of Rome Laurence Echard, translated into French (1734-1766), a postcard sent by Constantin Brâncusi to Ion Hagiescu-Miriste - magistrate, philanthropist and art collector - in 1907 for 5,500 euro, an Ottoman firman issued under the order of Sultan Mahmud II (1808-1838), for 1,000 euro.
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