Second van Regteren Altena sale

10 December 2014 | Amsterdam

The second part of the Van Regteren Altena sale comprised 269 lots of Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500 to 1900. The highest bid was €150,000 (181,500 incl.) for the drawing of Mars and Venus by Hendrick Goltzius (lot 112), which went to an anonymous telephone bidder, who only acquired this sheet. Art dealer Bob Haboldt bought, among other things, Seated girl seen from behind by Van den Eeckhout (lot 165, illustrated on the back of the sale catalogue, for €163,5000 incl.). The Rijksmuseum took home three drawings by Jurriaan and Christiaan Andriessen (lots 43, 45, 46), a proof impression of an engraved portrait with additional drawings in the margins by Karel van Mander (lot 214, for €85,00 incl.), a small dune landscape with gnarled trees by Claes van Beresteyn (lot 214, for €83,100 incl., illustrated on the front of the catalogue) and a Willem van de Velde marine drawing (lot 216) for its history/marine department. The Metropolitan Museum purchased two drawings, one by Isaac van Ostade (Four-wheeled Wagon, lot 199) and one by Adriaen Brouwer (Figure studies, lot 150). Different from the first auction in July 2014 this time the room was not packed with museum representatives. Art dealers and consultants (a.o. Haboldt, Teeuwisse, Bosch van Rosenthal, Masselink and Ongpin) dominated the bidding in the room, replenishing their stocks and acting on behalf of anonymous museums and collectors. Private collectors in person, mainly from the Netherlands, were also active in the room and made new acquisitions, all sheets bearing the prestigious vRA collector’s mark stamped on them before the sales.

For a complete list of prices realized, see Christie’s website