Today, November 3 in New York held an evening auction of "The Art of Impressionism and Modernism» Christie's. Top lots forthcoming auction will become rare and outstanding works of Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian. In total sale will feature 40 works, the total estimate that is 68 million dollars.

Conor Jordan, the head of the New York Department of impressionist and modernist art Christie's, said: "Continuing the success of the May session of bidding, this time we bring the attention of collectors collection of 40 rare and outstanding works from private collections, which not long ago appeared on the market. Particularly noteworthy are the work of Monet, Pissarro and Degas, and Rodin's sculpture "The Kiss". Top lots in a section of modernism is a portrait of Dora Maar Pablo Picasso's brush and "Rose" by Henri Matisse, who became one of his recent work ».

«Head of a Woman" by Pablo Picasso

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Among the top lots of the upcoming auction particularly noteworthy portrait of Dora Maar, Picasso painted in October 1943 in occupied Paris. Nevertheless, this work, which the artist painted his muse and mistress, vibrant, vivid colors, sharply contrasting with the gloomy and depressive Picasso from the same period. In this portrait the features of models are reduced to simple geometric forms. Hair took the form of an oblong dark blue oval, decorated with light blue hat with a ribbon.

At the November auction of Picasso will also be represented by such works as "Mother and Child" in 1925, which depicts the artist's first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and their son, Paolo (estimate 600-800 thousand dollars), and Women's Profile "- a portrait of Jacqueline Rock, painted by Picasso in 1960, several months before she became his wife (estimate 600-900 thousand dollars).

«Railway Bridge at Pontoise" by Camille Pissarro

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a series of landscapes, Pissarro painted during the period from 1872 to 1873 in the north-western suburbs of Paris, holds a special place in the artistic heritage of the artist, because these works are considered most relevant to the spirit of pure Impressionism. The work exposed in the coming auction, combines a gentle color palette, carefully tuned composition solution and perfect the transfer game chiaroscuro. In addition, the artist managed to skillfully combine the atmosphere of urban hustle and bustle of the railway bridge across the river Uazu with calming landscape of rural suburbs.

«Dancers" by Edgar Degas

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upcoming auction catalog cover art adorns the reproduction of pastel by Edgar Degas "Dancers", written by the artist in 1896. Degas returned to his favorite theme - a scene from the life of ballet artists - in his later work. At work depicts two dancers, resting during a break between performances. Original composition (the figure of one of the girls "fit on" in pastels only half) and perfectly matched colors make this work an ornament to any collection.

«Vetey sunny day" by Claude Monet

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Filled with sunlight landscape by Claude Monet was painted by the artist in 1901, during the period to improve the style, which contrasted with the later works of later masters, such as landscapes, created them in Giverny. In Vetee Monet wrote 15 paintings, each of which, including this work, depicts a view across the Seine. Landscapes different lighting and different weather details. This painting was one of several veteyskih landscapes, acquired in 1902 by a gallery Paul Durand-Ruelle; thing and remained there until 1949, when the went under the hammer in the collection of private collector. Today, seven of the 15 landscapes are in the world's leading museums, including the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

At today's auction will also be available "Kiss" by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) - an extremely rare, cast in the life of sculptor's work, valued by experts at the auction house 1,5-2 million dollars.

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Art modernism

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Two outstanding masterpiece of modernism, exhibited at Christie's auction from the collection of the founder of one of the most successful brokerage firms on Wall Street by Jack Dreyfus. "Rose" - decoupage by Henri Matisse in 1954 (estimate 3-4 million dollars) - served as a model of the main windows for the church, built in New York in memory of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The large-scale work made from cut sheets of colored paper, was one of the last works by Matisse. On the same day, when he wrote to the customer that has finished work on the layout, he had a stroke and two days later he died. Subsequently, decoupage was pasted on the canvas a diameter of 193 centimeters.

Also from the collection of Jack Dreyfus The sale will feature painting Wassily Kandinsky 1929 under the title "The fluctuating triangles" (estimate 1,5-2,5 million) relating to the early period of the Bauhaus in Dessau. The canvas is filled geometric shapes, lines, lined up in a curved line, which can be guessed for the urban landscape, or a symbolic image of the campus of the Bauhaus.

«Composition II, with a red" Piet Mondrian

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This picture Mondrian wrote in 1926, when he broke with the movement of "Style" and to concentrate on his own vision. Composition fabric consists of four straight black lines on a white background, one of the fragments are colored red cross. The work belongs to a series of four "Dresden" paintings, of which up to now, only two survived. "Composition IV, with a red" today is part of the collection of the Museum of Kaiser Wilhelm in the German town of Krefeld.

Source: press release Christie's, christies.com