Ignaz Konrad Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ignaz Konrad Art Value Price Guide

Jul. 06, 2024
Ignac Konrad O/C Portrait of Racehorse Sun Briar
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Ignac Konrad (France/Hungary, 1894 - 1969), "Sun Briar," oil on canvas painting depicting the champion thoroughbred racehorse in profile standing atop hay in a stall, against a mottled brown background with a green window upper right and watering bucket lower left. The name of the horse along with his lineage "by Sundridge" (father) and "Sweet Briar," lower left. The artist's signature is lower right. The placard on the lower frame reads, "Sun Briar, at 14 years. Painted by Konrad 1929." Housed in a carved wood frame with corner embellishments with gilt and red painted surface. Sight: 18 1/4" H x 23 1/4" W. Framed: 23 1/2" H x 28 1/4" W. Note: Sun Briar was foaled in France in 1915, but raced in the US and stood stud in Virginia at the farm of businessman Willis Sharpe Kilmer; he was trained by future Hall of Fame inductee, Henry McDaniel. Sun Briar was the son of Sundridge, the 1911 Champion Sire in Great Britain and Sweet Briar, the daughter of St. Frusquin, a leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland and a winner of multiple top-level races. In his championship two year old season, Sun Briar won 5 of his 9 starts and was named the 1917 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. In 1918 he set a North American record of 1:36 1/5 for one mile on dirt over an oval track while winning the Delaware Handicap. His subsequent record setting victories included breaking a Saratoga Race Course track record that had stood for 15 years (his time of 1:50 flat for a mile and a furlong stood for 37 years until 1956) and he was named the American Champion Older Male Horse of 1919. He retired from racing in 1919 and sired champions Sun Beau, Pompey, Sun Egret, and Firethorn. PROVENANCE: By descent from John Clark of New York (b. 1891-d. 1974). Clark was a thoroughbred owner and President of the Hialeah Park Race Course; he was also president of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the United States, treasurer of the New York Racing Association, a director at Belmont and Saratoga tracks, and a member of the Turf Committee of America. A detailed line of provenance is available to the winning bidder.
Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals
Nov. 18, 2023
Ignac Konrad - MAD HATTER
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed "Lexington, 1929" and "Mad Hatter, 1915, by Map Cap, by Fair Play" Provenance: Normandy Farm, Pennsylvania Strassburger Family Foaled in 1915, Mad Hatter was bred by the same cross of Fair Play to Rock Sand mares. Lightly raced as a 2-year-old, according to Charles Hatton of the Daily Racing Form, Mad Hatter was so contrary that if urged hard he was apt to pull himself up, yet would attempt to run off with his rider if the jockey hauled on the reins. In 1919, he won the inaugural Latonia Championship Stakes and defeated Sir Barton in the Pimlico Autumn Handicap. In 1921 and 1922 he was in top form, winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Metropolitan Handicap both years, and being named U.S. champion older male in 1921. Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894-1969) Konrad was a painter, sculptor, and an engraver. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest in his native Hungary. After serving seven years as a prisoner of war in Russia during World War I, he returned to Budapest and became a professor in 1921. He painted the Thoroughbreds of the foremost Hungarian stables. He was commissioned by American Thoroughbred breeder Ralph Beaver Strassburger to paint Man o' War, Fair Play, High Time, Bubbling Over, Black Servant, and as many as five other stallions.
The Sporting Art Auction
Nov. 18, 2023
Ignac Konrad - CRUSADER
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed "Crusader, 1923, by Man o' War - Star Fancy" and "1929, Lexington" Provenance: Normandy Farm, Pennsylvania Strassburger Family Bred by Samuel D. Riddle and raced by Glen Riddle Farm, Crusader saw the majority of his success during his 3-year-old season. Winning the Havre de Grace Handicap, Jockey Club Gold Cup, and Belmont Stakes, he was named U.S. champion 3-year-old colt and the U.S. Horse of the year. In 1927 he won the Suburban Handicap for the second year in a row and was later elected to the Racing Hall of Fame. Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894-1969) Konrad was a painter, sculptor, and an engraver. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest in his native Hungary. After serving seven years as a prisoner of war in Russia during World War I, he returned to Budapest and became a professor in 1921. He painted the Thoroughbreds of the foremost Hungarian stables. He was commissioned by American Thoroughbred breeder Ralph Beaver Strassburger to paint Man o' War, Fair Play, High Time, Bubbling Over, Black Servant, and as many as five other stallions.
The Sporting Art Auction
Nov. 18, 2023
Ignac Konrad - SUN BRIAR
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed "Paris, 1929" and "Sun Briar, 1915. By Sweet Briar-Sundridge. New Market, USA" Provenance: Normandy Farm, Pennsylvania Strassburger Family Willis Sharpe Kilmer was so infatuated with Sun Briar that he named his training facility in honor of the French-born horse and sent his agent to Europe to find prospective mares before he had even run a race. The U.S. champion 2-year-old colt of 1917, Sun Briar was an overwhelming favorite to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. As a 3-year-old, he went through a training slump, and trainer Henry McDaniel went in search of a partner to push him. The horse he settled on was the then little-known Exterminator. In the lead up to the Derby, Exterminator was training better than Sun Briar, so Sun Briar was pulled from the race, opening the way to Exterminator's victory. By the Saratoga meet in the fall, Sun Briar was back in form. In the Travers Stakes he became the first horse to defeat three winners of American Triple Crown races from that same year in a single race: Belmont Stakes winner Johren (second), Preakness Stakes winner War Cloud (third), and, of course, Exterminator (fourth). Continuing this success, he was named U.S. champion older male in 1919. The Hall of Famer Sun Beau was the most notable of his progeny, being a three-time U.S. champion older male (1929, 1930, 1931) and the all-time leader in race earnings upon his retirement. It is through Pompey that he appears in Secretariat's line. Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894-1969) Konrad was a painter, sculptor, and an engraver. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest in his native Hungary. After serving seven years as a prisoner of war in Russia during World War I, he returned to Budapest and became a professor in 1921. He painted the Thoroughbreds of the foremost Hungarian stables. He was commissioned by American Thoroughbred breeder Ralph Beaver Strassburger to paint Man o' War, Fair Play, High Time, Bubbling Over, Black Servant, and as many as five other stallions.
The Sporting Art Auction
May. 21, 2023
Ignac Konrad (1894 - 1969) Pastel, Horse Interest
Est: $100 - $250
A portrait of a horse, with the artist's business card affixed verso.
Locati LLC
Jan. 20, 2023
Ignac Konrad oil on canvas of a race horse
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Ignac Konrad (French/Hungarian 1894-1969), oil on canvas of the race horse Sun Briar, sired by Sweet Briar and Sundridge, signed lower left and dated Paris 1929, 49 1/2" x 59". Provenance: Normandy Farms, Pennsylvania, Strassburger Estate. NO in-house shipping for this lot.
Pook & Pook Inc.
Jan. 20, 2023
Ignac Konradoil on canvas of a race horse
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Ignac Konrad (French/Hungarian 1894-1969), oil on canvas of the race horse Crusader, sired by Man o'War and Star Fancy, signed lower right and dated 1929 Lexington, 27 1/2" x 35 1/2". Provenance: Normandy Farms, Pennsylvania, Strassburger Estate. NO in-house shipping for this lot.
Pook & Pook Inc.
Jan. 20, 2023
Ignac Konrad oil on canvas of a race horse
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Ignac Konrad (French/Hungarian 1894-1969), oil on canvas of the race horse Mad Hatter, sired by Mad Cap and Fair Play, signed lower right and dated 1929 Lexington, 27 1/2" x 35 1/2". Provenance: Normandy Farms, Pennsylvania, Strassburger Estate. NO in-house shipping for this lot.
Pook & Pook Inc.
Sep. 18, 2020
Race Horse (Worden), 1955
Est: Ft2,200,000 - Ft3,200,000
Race Horse (Worden), 1955 Signed lower right: Konrád I. Paris 1955
Kieselbach
Nov. 17, 2019
Ignac Konrad - Blandford
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894–1969) BLANDFORD $4,000. – $6,000. Oil on canvas, 24” x 29” Signed, dated 1930, inscribed “Paris, Blandford: 1919 Blanche-Swynford” $4,000. –6,000. The La Fleche Line La Fleche (or “The Arrow” in French) was a daughter of St. Simon foaled in 1889. In 1890 she was sold at Tattersalls for a then-world-record price of 5,500 guineas for a yearling. She was undefeated as a 2-year-old, competing against both sexes, and won the English Filly Triple Crown at 3. Her best foal was John o’ Gaunt (by English Triple Crown winner Isinglass) who came second in the Derby. Due to poor conformation and an amateur jockey, the Derby was his only race. John o’ Gaunt’s best foal (and only colt) was Swynford, who had a far better career than his sire. Swynford won the St Leger, Eclipse Stakes, and Hardwicke Stakes (twice). As a stallion, he was the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1923 and the leading broodmare sire in 1932. His progeny include six English classic winners, including Blandford. Blandford was foaled in 1919 and was the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland three times. He was bred by the Irish National Stud and due to a bout of pneumonia, sold at the December Newmarket sale instead of July. He was purchased by Samuel and Richard “Dick” Dawson, Irish brothers who had an operation at Whatcombe, near Wantage, in Oxfordshire. After purchasing the colt, the Dawsons put him into training at Whatcombe, with Dick, who had just won the Derby and Oaks with the filly Fifinella. Dick Dawson was optimistic about the colt and quickly put him into training with the filly Malva. Difficult to keep sound due to the bad forelegs he inherited from his grandsire, John o’ Gaunt, Blandford unfortunately raced only four times. Of those, he won three times and was second once, most notably winning the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.
The Sporting Art Auction
Nov. 19, 2017
HIGH TIME by Ignac Konrad (Hungarian, 1894–1969)
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Oil on canvas, 27 ¾” x 35 ½” Signed, inscribed Lexington, dated 1929 Leading sire of 1928 and twice leading broodmare sire, High Time sired two-time Horse of the Year Sarazen and champion 2-year-old High Strung. His daughters produced champion 2-year-old filly Now What and top sire Eight Thirty. High Time, who won Aqueduct’s Hudson Stakes setting a five-furlong track record, was a hard horse to place at stud, owing to his intense inbreeding to Domino. High Time first stood at Elizabeth Daingereld’s Haylands Farm and was sold in its dispersal to Charles Fisher’s Dixiana Farm. High Time died at 21 in 1937 and is buried at Dixiana.
The Sporting Art Auction
Nov. 18, 2015
FAIR PLAY
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894-1969) FAIR PLAY Oil on canvas, 28" x 36" Signed, inscribed: Paris, Fair Play Inscribed on verso: Fair Play, 6 months after August Belmont sale $10,000. _ 15,000. Illustrated: "Catalogue of the National Museum of Racing, Saratoga Springs, New York: Equine, Portraits, Sculptures, and Histories, I", 1963, pg. 50, text pg. 51 By Hastings out of Fairy Gold Fair Play was foaled in 1905 and bred by August Belmont, Jr. Like both his sire and his dam, Fair Play was one of the top runners of his generation. Fair Play made 32 starts with 10 wins, 11 seconds, and three third-place finishes. Fair Play won the Montauk Stakes, the Flash Stakes at Saratoga, the Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes, and the Realization Stakes as well as winning the Jerome Handicap and the Municipal Handicap and setting a track record at Gravesend. In 1908 when anti-wagering laws forced racing to shut down in New York, Fair Play was sent to England to continue his racing career. Fair Play never took to racing on the turf and returned to the United States in 1910 to begin his career as a stallion at his birthplace, Belmont's Nursery Stud in Kentucky. Fair Play sired 49 stakes winners out of 260 foals and was the leading stallion in America in 1920, 1924, and 1928. Among his best were Display, who won the Preakness in 1926 and was a true stayer known as the "Iron Horse;" Mad Hatter, who won the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Metropolitan Handicap as well as the Toboggan, Suburban, and Queens County Handicaps; and Chance Play, who stood at Calumet and was America's leading sire both in 1935 and 1944. Chance Shot won the Belmont Stakes and Wither Stakes and became a solid producer, standing at Elmendorf Stud. Fair Play also produced many classic runners such as Sun King, Robinetta, Flitaway, and Stromboli. While the list of great runners that he produced is extensive and quite impressive without him, Fair Play's best son, foaled in 1917, out of Mahubah, was the beloved Man o' War. Man o' War took the racing world by storm, winning the Tremont Stakes, Hopeful Stakes, Futurity Stakes, Youthful Stakes, Travers Stakes, the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Lawrence Realization Stakes, Withers Stakes, Dwyer Stakes, and the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Man o' War was also champion two-year old and the Horse of the Year as a thee-years old. When he began his own stud career he followed in his father's footsteps, producing such greats as American Flag and Crusader, who both won the Belmont Stakes; Clyde Van Dusen, who won the Kentucky Derby in 1929; Battleship, a steeplechaser who won the English Grand National; Hard Tack, who sired Seabiscuit; War Relic whose sire line includes the now famous Tiznow; and of course the 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral. Upon the death of August Belmont, Jr. in 1924, a dispersal sale of is bloodstock was held and Fair Play was purchased by Joseph E. Widener for $100,000 and taken to his famous Elmendorf Farm. Fair Play would spend the remainder of his life at Widener's expansive Elmendorf where he would ultimately be laid to rest in 1929. Joseph E. Widener commissioned a three-quarter life-sized bronze statue of the great stallion. It was placed at Fair Play's grave as a memorial to the beloved father of champions. The present work was painted for Joseph E. Widener and depicts Fair Play as a stallion in the sweeping landscape of what was once the great Elmendorf Stud.
The Sporting Art Auction
Mar. 04, 2012
Ignac Konrad High Time by Ultimus-Noonday
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Ignac Konrad (French/Hungarian, 1894-1969) "High Time by Ultimus-Noonday," 1929, oil on board, 15" x 18", signed lower right, framed
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Sep. 19, 2011
KONRAD IGNAZ (HONGRIE 1894-1969 PARIS)
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
KONRAD IGNAZ (HONGRIE 1894-1969 PARIS) Try Well signé, daté 'Konrad Ignaz/Alag/1937' (en bas à droite) et inscrit 'Try Well' (en bas à gauche) huile sur toile, non rentoilée 81 x 100 cm. (31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Christie's
Sep. 19, 2011
KONRAD IGNAZ (HONGRIE 1894-1969 PARIS)
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
KONRAD IGNAZ (HONGRIE 1894-1969 PARIS) Try Well Magyar Derby signé, daté 'Konrad Ignaz/1938' (en bas à droite) et inscrit 'Try Well Magyar Derby' (en bas à gauche) huile sur toile, non rentoilée 59 x 73 cm. (23¼ x 28¾ in.)
Christie's
Oct. 02, 2010
IGNÁC KONRÁD (1894-1969), Stud horse BEDUIN, 1926.
Est: Kč35,000 - Kč70,000
IGNÁC KONRÁD (1894-1969), Stud horse BEDUIN, 1926. Portrait of a horse in stall. Oil on canvas, 45x55 cm, signed and dated lower right „Konrad Ignac 1926", lower left titled „Beduin". Framed. Condition A. IGNÁC KONRÁD (1894-1969), HŘEBEC BEDUIN, 1926. Portrét koně ve stáji. Olej na plátně, 45x55 cm, sign. a dat. vpravo dole „Konrad Ignac 1926", vlevo dole jméno „Beduin". Rámováno. Stav A. IGNÁC KONRÁD (1894-1969), HENGST BEDUIN, 1926. Porträt eines Pferds im Stahl. Öl auf Leinwand, 45x55 cm, rechts unten sign. und dat. „Konrad Ignac 1926", links unten der Name „Beduin". Gerahmt. Zustand A.
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