Sotheby's will hold a May auction of contemporary art and Impressionist Paintings
ARTinvestment.RU   24 апреля 2008

7 May, 2008 in New York will auction the evening of works of Impressionist and modern artists, which will display the key of the main representatives of this art

7 May, 2008 in New York will auction the evening of works of Impressionist and modern artists, which will display the key of the main representatives of this art - Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Fernand Léger, Alberto Giacometti, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin , Joan Miro and others. Overall assessment of all 53 lots ranging from 207 to 284 million dollars. In addition to pre-exhibition in New York, 20-25 April, will be showing the top lots in London.

The most expensive auction lots will sketch for the painting «The woman in blue» (1912-1913) Fernand Leger (estimeyt 35-45 million dollars) and «Girls on the bridge» (1902) Edvard Munch (estimeyt 24-28 million dollars). Munch's famous work, with its vibrant colors and deliberately distorted perspective, has become one of predvestnits (as well as other Munch, and Vincent Van Gogh) fovistov in France and the German expressionists. Painting «Girls on the Bridge» comes from the famous collections of Norton Simon and Vendella and Dorothy Cherry (Norton Simon and Wendell and Dorothy Cherry), a few of their works Haim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani had already been sold at auction Sotheby's in 2004 and 2008 for the fantastic sum of , so the chance of selling this product Munch is high enough.

As for the studies (or rather, one of the training options for the painting), painted by Fernand Léger, who is undoubtedly a masterpiece of cubism, the much higher price due to the emergence of market kubisticheskoy song whose authorship and authenticity no doubt, is a great rarity. This essay is generally a well-finished product and is written in the years 1912-1913, participated in the famous Berlin exhibition of Der Sturm in 1913, then hit the legendary collection of Hermann Lange (Hermann Lange), which is not left up to the present. We work with a truly impeccable provenansom offered for auction the heirs of a collector. Organizers of the forthcoming exhibition монографической Fernand Leger (FERNAND LÉ GER Paris - New York), to be held in the Fund Beyelera in Basel (the Beyeler Foundation), has requested be placed on the auction work for his exhibition, which next to it will be exhibited for the first time, two more options « Women in blue ».

Source: www.artdaily.org