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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Auction Results Exceed Expectations: Ahmed Bioud's Beauford Delaney Collection

ADER's sale of 9 lots of Beauford Delaney works from the collection of Ahmed Bioud exceeded the expectations of the auction house!

Jazz Band was the only oil on canvas among the works offered. ADER estimated the sale price as 15,000€ - 20,000€.

Jazz Band
(1965) Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on back
81 x 65 cm
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

This work fetched 134,000€.

Composition, 1962, an oil on paper, was estimated to sell for 3,000€ - 4,000€.

Composition, 1962
(1962) Oil on paper
Signed and dated at bottom right
50 x 65 cm
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

It sold for 17,920€.

The mixed-media work entitled Composition, 1962 was assigned an estimated sale price of 2,000€ - 3,000€.

Composition, 1962
(1962) Mixed media on paper
Signed, dated, and dedicated at bottom right
74 x 53.5 cm
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

It sold for 14,080€.

Composition, 1963, a watercolor, sold for over five times the high end of the estimated sale price range (7680€ versus 1500€).

Composition, 1963
(1963) Watercolor
Signed at bottom right, dated, and
annotated "Souvenir" at bottom left
50 x 33.5 cm
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

And the gouache entitled Composition, 1964 sold for 8320€, while its estimated sale price was 1,000€ - 1,500€.

Composition, 1964
(1964) Gouache
Signed and dated at bottom right
55 x 37 cm
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

The other four works also went for handsome prices, including Lot 78 - a gouache that sold for twelve times the highest estimated sale price.

To see all the results, click HERE All sale prices include a buyer's premium of 28%.

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