Old Masters auction Christie's - the day after tomorrow in New York!

Rare and newly discovered paintings top the list of the top auction lots "Art Old Masters" at Christie's on 25 and 26 January: it works by Hans Memling, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, George Pentz, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and others

25 and January 26, 2012 in New York, Christie's will auction "Paintings and Drawings of Old Masters", which will be offered a selection of rare paintings.

< p class = "mat1"> favorite auction will be an elegant paintings by Hans Memling's "Virgin Mary nursing the Christ child," one of the two still remain in private collections, as well as an oil sketch by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's brush "The arrival of Henry III to the Villa Contarini "- an important work created by the historical story. Organizers hope that through paintings by such artists as Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, Gerard Dou and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the auction will be a memorable occasion: they exhibited paintings that appear on the market for the first time in many decades, as well as work have been re-attributed. The two-day auction will include a special auction on January 25, dedicated to the art of France, which will become the favorites of Fragonard.

Among a wide variety of papers presented at the auction on paintings of Old Masters, French art, pictures and watercolors of Old Masters and ranneangliyskim works there as the scene of daily life, and unusual in its technique portraits. By the undisputed top auction lots include in particular the works of Jean-Honore Fragonard, Gerard Dow, Edward Lear.

pre-auction show held in New York at Rockefeller Plaza, 21-25 January .

January 25, 2012: tenders' Old Master Paintings. Part I »

GEORGE Pentz Portrait of Martin Luther. 1533 Oil on canvas. 41 x 32 Christie's . 01/25/12. Lot 9 Estimate: 0.8-1.2 million Source: Press Release Christie's

«Portrait of Martin Luther," is a copy of Lucas Cranach the Elder and provides an opportunity for a fresh look at creative Pentz. George Pentz (about 1500-1550, Leipzig or Wroclaw) was one of the most famous pupils of Albrecht Durer, and the portrait shows precisely the qualities that made famous by the artist. The work was written a year after Pentz received an order for her execution of the Elector of Saxony - Luther's closest supporters. In this portrait leader of the Reformation is presented in a naturalistic manner.

Matthias STOMER St. Cecilia and the Angel Oil on canvas. 85,7 x 111,5 Christie's. 25/01/12. Lot 44 Estimate: 200-300 thousand dollars Source: Press Release Christie's

The painting brush Matthias Stomera (about 1600, Amersfoort - after 1652, Sicily and northern Italy), we see the patroness of musicians, St. Cecilia, which is in a darkened room. The space around the saint and who is in front of her instrument covers only a solitary candle. Composition and leaf color scheme reminiscent of works by Caravaggio, in 1630 Stomer lived in Rome, where he could easily read the works of great masters. Previously, the picture was owned by the Spanish royal family, belonged to Joseph Bonaparte and the First Duke of Wellington, who later went to the London meeting, which was stored in Espli House.

Gerard Dou Young girl playing on the clavichord Oil on canvas. 39 x 32 Christie's. 25/01/12. Lot 49 Estimate: 1-2 million dollars Source: Press Release Christie's

working in the studio of Rembrandt, Gerard Dou (1613-1675, Leiden) was first known for his works of small size, full of minute details. Later, he began to specialize in portraits and genre paintings that brought him widely known.'s contemporaries valued him above all for the transfer of the studio lighting effects. In this work, the artist's attention, not least concentrated in the folds of tissue surrounding the young girl. The painting was purchased by the family of the present owner over 75 years ago and the market appears for the first time.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo Double anthropomorphic portrait of a man composed of fruit Wood oil. 55,9 x 41,6 Christie's. 25.01.12. Lot 28 Estimate: 3-5 million dollars < Source: Press Release Christie's

This portrait has a special place in the history of European painting, and in the artistic heritage of the Arcimboldo (about 1527 - 1593, Milan). The picture can be viewed as an ordinary still life, but if you rotate it 180 degrees, before the eyes of the viewer appear portrait of a man. Despite the evidence that the portraits are composed of individual elements were created and before it, namely, Arcimboldo first coined these "HRE." In addition to this work have survived only two more bilateral portrait painter.

January 25, 2012: tenders' French Art »

< /a> Jean Honore Fragonard A good mother oval oil on canvas. 48,9 x 39,2 Christie's. 25/01/12. Lot 133 Estimate: 5-7 million dollars Source: Press Release Christie's