Joseph van Bredael's Auction Record Jumps 100%

Joseph van Bredael, *The Tower of Babel

• (Undated) sold for $469,200 (EUR403,200), more than three times the low estimate at Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne on December 4. The Oil on panel, partially parqueted work has not been traded before.

The sale beat the artist’s previous auction record by $242,200, a 100% rise.

The previous record was set by A River Landscape With Figures Both On A Ferry And Waiting On The Shore Beneath A Windmill (Undated), which sold for $227,000 at Sotheby's on April 30, 2014. The work had not been traded before.

| $469,200 | 107 % | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne April 30, 2014 | A River Landscape With Figures Both On A Ferry And Waiting On The Shore Beneath A Windmill | $227,000 | 2 % | Sotheby's | London December 04, 2009 | Enée et la Sibylle de Cumes aux enfers | $222,800 | 6 % | Millon | Paris November 14, 1990 | The Tower of Babel | $210,800 | 45 % | Sotheby's | Amsterdam June 22, 1990 | Paysage de riviere avec animaux s'abreuvant. Voyageurs dans un chariotsur un chemin de foret | $145,800 | 29 % | Ader Picard Tajan | Paris April 08, 1987 | Horse fair. Fish market | $112,900 | 56 % | Sotheby's | London March 30, 1979 | Landscape with travellers by a windmill | $72,200 | 78 % | Christie's | London July 20, 1973 | Village and river landscapes | $40,600 | - | Christie's | London