Ernst Beyeler. Source: artinfo.ru

A year after the death of the legendary Swiss art dealer Ernst Beyeler ( Ernst Beyeler) Christie's will auction works from its collection. June 21 and 22 held an auction of Impressionist and modern art, where buyers will offer works from the estate of Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, as well as from their gallery in Basel.

Ernst Beyeler opened his famous gallery on Bäumleingasse , 9 in Basel in 1945. Over the next 65 years Galerie Beyeler has conducted more than 300 events - in particular, Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso), Claude Monet (Claude Monet), Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse), Fernand Leger (Fernand Léger), Wassily Kandinsky (Vassily Kandinsky), Piet Mondrian (Piet Mondrian), Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti), Joan Miro (Joan Miró), Alexander Calder (Alexander Calder), Hans Arp (Jean Arp), Jean Dubuffet (Jean Dubuffet), Mark Rothko ( Mark Rothko), Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz) and many others. During his long life, the dealer sold more than 16,000 works by prominent authors, many of which the collector was personally acquainted. For example, Pablo Picasso for many years been a friend of Beyeler, the artist even allows dealers to choose to your taste works from his studio. A taste of the Beyeler was flawless - he always chose the best.

In the postwar years, Ernst Beyeler was among the top art dealers of the world, he sold the masterpieces of the world's leading museums. In 1970 he became one of the founders of the Swiss art fair Art Basel - nowadays one of the key events in the art market in early summer. In addition to the Impressionist Hildy and Ernst were also keen collectors of art post-impressionism, modernism, Contemporary art and art of Africa and Oceania. In 1982 he founded the Beyeler Foundation, to whom they handed over their unique collection, designed by architect Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano) was built museum building in the city Riene at Basel, which opened its doors in 1997. Now this is one of the leading private European museums, the exhibition which is visited by 4 million people.

bequest Beyeler, who died last year aged 88, his gallery in Basel, will be closed and funds from the sale of paintings will go to the Beyeler Foundation (Fondation Beyeler) on the future operational needs of the museum in Riene and overall protection of the heritage of the spouses-collectors.

Among the works that will be offered June 21-22 at Christie's, - works by Claude Monet (Claude Monet), Paul Gauguin (Paul Gauguin), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec), Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso), Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse), Alexei von Jawlensky (Alexej von Jawlensky) , Oskar Kokoschka (Oscar Kokoschka), Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti), Alexander Calder (Alexander Calder), Paul Klee (Paul Klee), Fernand Leger (Fernand Léger), Hans Arp (Jean Arp), Jean Dubuffet (Jean Dubuffet), Mark Tobey (Mark Tobey), Frank Stella (Frank Stella), Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz), Anselm Kiefer (Anselm Kiefer), and others.

Several papers have been put up for sale, the spouses were Beyeler especially roads. For example, "Wooden stable" (1945) Calder, the artist in the same year in which Ernst Beyeler opened a gallery, all subsequent years, stood on the desktop of a collector. A landscape watercolor by Paul Klee more than 50 years, hung over the bedside table in the house Beyeler in Basel.

Among the most interesting lots evening sale 21 June - "Lilies" by Claude Monet. Work written between 1916 and 1919, some consider the forerunner of postwar abstraction by Mark Rothko, Clifford Still and Sam Francis.

to top lots also include a portrait of the franchise in 1946 brush by Pablo Picasso, "Valley Tahiti "Gauguin (1892)," Miss Mae Belford "Toulouse-Lautrec (1895)," Reclining Nude "by Renoir (1902) and" Flag "Fernand Leger (1919).

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artinfo.com , christies.com , artinvestment.ru