Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Buste de femme de profil
Drawing (ink) · Paper
Phillips · Sep 28, 2025HK$141,900 ≈ $18,237 ≈ £13,570 ≈ €15,625Sign up free to see price
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Auction result
Portrait (Double-sided)
Sanyu (Chinese-French, 1895–1966)
NT$648,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ $21,598≈ £16,013≈ €18,172
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- Medium
- Drawing (pencil) · Works on paper all drawing results →As published: “Pencil and charcoal on paper”
- Support
- Paper
- Category
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- 31.2 x 24.2 cm
- Auction house
- Ravenel
- Sale
- Ravenel Autumn Auction 2017 (ca6069a1-1fa6-4a32-9e46-65717a7738fe)
- Date
- December 2, 2017
- Location
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Lot
- 12
- Estimate
- NT$280,000 – NT$420,000 (≈ $9,332 – $13,999) (≈ £6,919 – £10,379) (≈ €7,852 – €11,778)
- Source
- Auction house ravenelart.com ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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