With an estimate of €5.5 million could become one of the most expensive works of artists of the orbit of Russian art sold at auction this year

Landscape "Agrigento" is one of the most important series of de Stael, the artist in the South of France in 1953 and a year later presented in new-йоркской the gallery of Paul Rosenberg, a specialist in contemporary art in the United States. Of the forty-four paintings of de Stael, based on impressions from a trip to Sicily, twenty depict the famous beach of Agrigento. Six of them are in Museum collections.

Presented at the auction work — is one of the best landscapes that reflect the essence of the entire series: sand, sea and sky vibrate with almost audible intensity, hitting the viewer a real Symphony of colors and shapes. Landscape "Agrigento" was presented at posthumous exhibitions of de Stael, including retrospectives at the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 1965, the Museum of fine arts in Boston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in new-Йорке in 1966, and also in art Museum, Tobu in Tokyo in 1997, and its value and importance.

it is Expected that the work will be top-лотом the Paris part of the Christie's auction ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century — this auction marathon, which will be held online-формате in real time, alternately of the four main offices of the auction house in Hong Kong, Paris, London and new-Йорке 10 Jul 2020.

in Parallel, from 1 to 21 July 2020 Christie's completes the traditional "Russian week" online-торгами Russian Art, in a directory which included more than 300 lots of fine and decorative-прикладного art. Read more with a catalog of the auction can be found here.

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Source: salonprivemag.com