Gala Auction Impressionists and modernists Sotheby's - today!
Consumers will be offered the work of Klimt, Giacometti, Cezanne, Goncharova, Chagall and other famous artists
held today in London trading works by impressionists and modernists, arranged the auction house Sotheby's. Consumers will be offered 39 lots, including works by Camille Pissarro ( "Church of Saint-Jacques in Dieppe in the morning sun, 2.3 million pounds), Egon Schiele (" Seated Woman in purple stockings, 3.5 million pounds) Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( "Leontine reading" millionafuntov 2,3-2,8), Rene Magritte ( "beautiful ship, 2,5-3,5 million pounds) and many others.
Estimate 12-18 million pounds was luxurious decorative painting by Gustav Klimt's "The Church in Cassone. Landscape with Cypresses "(1913). This is the only surviving landscape painter, which shows the Lake Garda, on the coast of which he was resting with his lover, fashion designer FLEG Emily (Emilie Flöge). The final amount will be divided between the current owner of the picture, wishing to remain anonymous, and the heir of Viennese collectors Paula and Victor Tsukkerkandlya (Paula & Viktor Zuckerkandl), which work belonged to the war. After his death in 1927 Tsukkerkandley canvas went to his sister Victor Amalie Redlich (Amalie Redlich), which in 1938 gave his collection to storage in a transport company. Three years later, Amalie, and her daughter were sent to the Polish concentration camp, where, probably died. Pictures of their collections have disappeared without a trace. Landscape Klimt was discovered only in 1962. According to the Sotheby's, the current owners were "shocked" to learn the sad story of linen, and agreed to pay part of the proceeds of sale grandson of Amalie.
monumental sculpture by Alberto Giacometti "walking man I» (1961) also estimated at 12-18 million pounds. Of all the sculptures of Giacometti's walking man appearing at the auctions in the past 20 years, at today's auction is exhibited the highest. In addition, it is the only auction in the history of Giacometti's work of this kind, cast in the artist's life. The sculpture was to be part of a great song, which was supposed to place on Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York, but Giacometti did not complete the project. It should be noted that the auction record for the artist's work belongs to the same ensemble - « Large woman standing II ", sold in May 2008, the first at Christie's for 27.5 million dollars . Second place in the ranking of the most expensive works belongs sculpture "falling man", which brought 19.3 million dollars (measured at 8.12 million ) at Sotheby's last November . This figure is only slightly higher than the lower estimate, which at today's auction will be "walking man I». Sculpture auctioned German Dresdner Bank, which received its "inherited" from the adsorption of Commerzbank. The latter acquired a job in 1980.
bidding will also painted a picture of Paul Cezanne's "jug and fruit on the table, estimated at 10-15 million. Canvas was written in 1893-1894, respectively, in the best period of still life painter. similar work entitled" Still Life with Jug and drapery "left in 1999 at Sotheby's for 60 (!) million dollars . Other compositions with fruit and blue drapery, written in the same period, are included in collections of such museums as the Metropolitan (New York), the National Gallery (London) and the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles). However, even the work of this class are not immune from failure, as exemplified by the last occurrence of the same "jug ..." at a public auction (Sotheby's, May 2001). Then the picture, whose estimate was equivalent 9,8-14 million pounds, failed to sell. Despite this failure, the auction house specialists preliminary assessment did not decrease, even slightly increased - for nine years, the price index of Cezanne grew by 8 percent.
Painting "haymaking" brush our compatriot Natalia Goncharova received the estimate 600-800 thousand pounds. The work was created in the second half of 1900-ies, when the artist was still living in Russia. That period marked the transition from impressionism to primitivism - the style, which were written, perhaps the most famous works were "the vanguard of the Amazons," monumental "icon" arrangement with the image of the peasants. In "Senokos" clearly shows the influence of rural landscapes by Cezanne; someone painting serves as a reminder of creation of the German Expressionists, such as August Macke.
As in the past year , Sotheby's will present at its February auction "circus" canvas Marc Chagall . "Circus in the red and blue", dating from abroad the 1960's and 1970's, is estimated to be 1,5-2,5 million pounds. Estimate impressive, but the earlier paintings on the same subject can bring even more: for example, the second line in the list of the most expensive works of Vitebsk artist is "The Circus" in 1956, who retired in May 2007, the second for 12.25 million dollars. As far as we are interested in the period, here we can recall the "Paris juggler" (1969), has brought at Sotheby's in May 2009, 2.9 million (1.9 million pounds) for the preliminary assessment of the 2-3 million dollars.
Among the most accessible works on display at the auction include works by German Expressionists. For example, a charcoal drawing August Macke, entitled "Girls playing in the shadow of trees" has received estimate 60-80 thousand. Work in 1914, shortly before the tragic death of the author (Macke was killed in the war). Late period is considered the best of the artist: it was then were performed his principal masterpieces. His work is distinguished cheerfulness and harmony, which is absolutely "not fit" with stereotypes of expressionism as a dark art, painting the chaos of the passions.
Watercolor Paul Klee " Village house near Freeburg "estimated at 200-300 thousand. It was established in 1915, a year after his trip to Tunisia, which is considered a milestone in the creative development of the artist: Klee, it was then discovered the expressive possibilities of color. It should be noted that the Tunisian watercolors and they are close in spirit to works such as "country house", appear on the auction market is very rare.
The same assessment awarded picture of Henry Campendonk "The Shepherd" (1924). Campendonk was a member of the "Blue Rider", but unlike their colleagues in this association, Vasily Kandinsky , and Klee, preferred abstraction bucolic phantasmagoria. Creativity Campendonk is the focus of attention of collectors and investors. Through a series of successful sales for the period 2008-2009, its price index, on the western statistics, grew by 287 per cent. Fantastic result! Skeptics expect that after such a rapid growth will inevitably be followed by a strong rebound (as is usually the case). But wrong. Last year, the price index adjusted for symbolic Campendonk 7 percent. As for the year of crisis is very bad. Interestingly, the rapid growth in 2008 is not the first nor the most impressive careers in the auction Campendonk. Phenomenal year 2005, when its price index added nearly 450 percent.
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