Sale 8498
New York, Park Avenue
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25 October 1996
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Price realised
USD 17,250
Estimate
Franz Richard Unterberger (Belgian, 1838-1902) Canale St. Barnaba, Venice signed 'F R Unterberger' lower right and signed and inscribed 'F R Unterberber-Bruxelles' and inscribed as titled on the reverse oil on canvas 36¼ x 26½in. (92 x 67.3cm.)
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Pre-Lot Text
The designer and decorator shows us around his Santa Monica HQ, and enthuses over the forthcoming Rooms as Portraits auctions in London and New York
Chinese Works of Art specialist Olivia Hamilton reckons this pair of superb sculptures — around 1,300 years old — are ‘the finest I've seen come up for sale‘