Anton Sohn

German · 1769–1840 · Painter, Sculptor

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3auction results2017–2021years recorded100%sold (3)$9.9kSign up free to seemedian price

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  1. Anton Sohn, The Zizenhausen Danse Macabre, Clay, the reverse flattened, with the original polychromy. This lot features 21 of the total of 42 figures that make up this Danse Macabre series, which was completed in around 1822 and was based on the Danse Macabre painted on the graveyard wall of the Dominican Abbey in Basel, the motifs of which were first disseminated in printed form in 1623 by Matthäus Merian the Elder. Alongside the „bone house“ with skeletons making music, we also see the figures of the Pope, cardinal, bishop, abbot, abbess, queen, king, duke, duchess, nobleman, noblewoman, knight, youth, infidel, painter, lady painter, cook, grocer, blind man, lame man, and the fool. The plinths are labelled with the accompanying texts on paper. In good overall condition with near flawlessly preserved polychromy. With minimal breakages and repairs to the figures of the bishop and the blind man. Height 13-The Zizenhausen Danse MacabreLempertz · €32,500≈ $36,631≈ £27,277Sign up to see
  2. Anton Sohn, Spring Morning on the Lower Rhine, Oil on canvasSpring Morning on the Lower RhineLempertz · €8,750≈ $9,862≈ £7,344Sign up to see
  3. Anton Sohn, Clay Figures after the Zizenhausen Danse Macabre, Flattened to the reverse, with original polychromy. Twenty-one figures from the fourty-two figure series first modelled in 1822. The figures follow the prints by Matthäus Merian the Elder first published in 1623 after the frescoes of the cemetary walls of the Dominican Abbey in Basel. Alongside the Fall of Man with Adam and Eve and the House of Bones, this series also includes the figures of death dancing with the pope, the emperor, the empress, a cardinal, a duke, duchess, knight, councillor, canon, doctor, cripple, youth, piper, executioner, chandler, jew, heathen man, heathen woman, and peasant. The plinths bear glued on paper inscriptions with the accompanying texts. Minimal wear and glued repairs. Height 13-Clay Figures after the Zizenhausen Danse MacabreLempertz · €8,060≈ $9,507≈ £7,204Sign up to see

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Average price
median $9.9kfree account
High
auction record in database
Lots sold
3
of 3 offered · 2017–2021
Sell-through
100%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$3k$10k$32k$100k20182019202020212017-11-18 · $9,5072021-11-20 · $36,6312021-11-20 · $9,862
Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Paintings11100%$9.9kSign up$9.9kSign up$9.9kSign up
Oil11100%$9.9kSign up$9.9kSign up$9.9kSign up
Works on paper11100%$9.5kSign up$9.5kSign up$9.5kSign up
Prints & multiples11100%$36.6kSign up$36.6kSign up$36.6kSign up
Print (other)11100%$36.6kSign up$36.6kSign up$36.6kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202122$23.2kSign up
201711$9.5kSign up

Related artists — German, born 1744–1794