Christie’s impressionist and modern art sale in London
Baku, January 15 (AZERTAC). Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 6 February 2013 marks the start of the first major auctions of the year, meeting current market demands with a particularly strong offering of high quality, rare works.
The focused sale of 37 lots highlights the best of the Impressionist movement and the early avant-garde of the 20th century - from figuration to abstraction - with works by a roll call of the most important artists of the period including Renoir, Modigliani, Picasso, Kandinsky and Matisse. Estimates range from £200,000 to £22 million, with a pre-sale estimate of £67,470,000 to £99,710,000. Combined with The Art of the Surreal (separate release to follow) Christie’s Evening Auctions on 6 February have a total pre-sale estimate of £98,350,000 to £146,580,000.
Jay Vincze, International Director and Head of The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, Christie’s London: “The market continues to demonstrate that a passion for art is key to many of the greatest acquisitions and collections.
- Nu accroupi, 1960, by Pablo Picasso is offered from the property of a private American collection. During the course of 1960, when Pablo Picasso was staying increasingly at Château de Vauvenargues, he painted a succession of pictures which explored the theme of the female nude.
- L'abandon is an early cast of one of Camille Claudel’s (1864-1943) masterpieces and most-recognised sculptures (estimate: £700,000-900,000, illustrated right).
- L'ombrelle, 1878, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was painted during the height of Impressionism (estimate: £4-7million, illustrated page one top left). In this radiant painting, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts the quintessential Impressionist subject of the fashionably attired Parisienne within a scene of abundantly flowering nature.
- The landscapes that Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) painted in Murnau between 1908 and 1909 reflect the first full flowering of his art and mark the beginning of the artist’s epic pioneering journey into abstraction.
- The final flowering of Kandinsky’s abstraction is presented in Balancement, 1942 (estimate: £5-8 million, illustrated page one top centre).
- La danse, 1938, by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with its collaged ‘cut-out’ borders is one of his very earliest works to point toward his growing fascination with ‘cut outs’ and the potential of a medium that went on to occupy him for the last decade and a half of his life, constituting some of his most recognisable works (estimate: £2.2-3.4 million, illustrated left).
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