At the auction of Impressionist and Modern Christie's Feb. 6 exhibited outstanding works by Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Camille Claudel, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse and others

main auction of the new year, Christie's will auction the evening "Impressionist and Modern Art" to be held in London on February 6.

selected for auction 37 lots - of works of Impressionism Avant-garde and early XX century (as figurative and abstract painting), including works by Renoir, Modigliani, Picasso, Kandinsky and Matisse. The estimated value of works ranging from 200,000 to 22 million pounds, while the total estimate of all auction items is 67,47-99,7 million pounds. In conjunction with the auction of "The Art of Surrealism" total preliminary estimate of all lots of evening auctions to be held on February 6, is 98,35-146,58 million pounds.

Window to the World Modigliani, Picasso and Claudel: love, intrigue and music

• Modigliani
  Jeanne Hebuterne (in the hat). 1919
  Christie's. 06.02.13
  Estimate: 16-22 million pounds
  Source: Press Release Christie's

List of lots of the upcoming auction is headed by one of the most famous portrait by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) "Jeanne Hebuterne (with hat)" (1919, estimate: 16-22 million pounds), which immortalized lover and muse of the artist . This portrait of a small part in a posthumous retrospective of the artist's works, which was held as part of the Venice Biennale XIII in 1922. It was the first exhibition of Modigliani in his home country. Joan silhouette and line of her neck full of grace and elegance - they fully explain why some of the works of Modigliani late period of his brief but dramatic and remarkable career belongs to Mannerism. "Jeanne Hebuterne (in a hat)" strikingly contemporary work, the idealized image of the beloved artist. Serenity in the portrait of Joan in sharp contrast with the legendary tales of drunkenness and bohemian life, which is so often associated Modigliani. In the image of Joan felt almost religious sense of grace, her hand raised as the Mother of God. Innovator in the world of modern art Modigliani lived a short life and created relatively few paintings, compared with the works of his contemporaries rarely come onto the market.

Pablo Picasso Nude squat. 1960 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 3-5 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

Painting by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Nude squat" in 1960 offered for auction from the collection of private American collector (estimate 3-5 million pounds). During 1960, when Pablo Picasso was at the Chateau Vovenar, he painted a series of works devoted to the nude woman. Written February 14, 1960, the day of St. Valentine, the painting "Nude squat" on a green background shows a woman sitting cross-legged, apparently, it is a modern interpretation of the bathers. The picture is reminiscent of the works of Picasso's predecessors - from "Bathsheba" Rembrandt (in the collection of the Louvre) and paintings by Lucas Cranach the biblical theme that Picasso used as the theme for erotic variations to the controversial "Luncheon on the Grass" Edouard Manet, Pierre-images of bathers Auguste Renoir and women squatting present in the painting by Eugene Delacroix "Women of Algeria." Style features paintings reveal certain similarities with its portraits of Jacqueline Roque, his wife, the artist has become a year after writing the "Nude squat." One of the reasons that attracted the attention of Picasso and Delacroix painting "Women of Algiers" became almost a portrait likeness profiles one of three painted by women and most of Jacqueline. The artist often portrayed profile Jacqueline divided into two parts, with the darkened half was intended to point out the duality of her inner world. The same method was also used in the "Nude squat." Posture shown in the picture, women also may be a reference to the habit of Jacqueline sit cross-legged while propping up her face - in that position, it is embodied in many of the photos taken at the Chateau Vovenar.

Pablo Picasso The Blind Minotaur, next to a little girl. 1934 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 2,8-3,5 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

Written in 1934, the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), called "The Blind Minotaur, next to a little girl" was first put up for sale from a private European collection, which it had been since 1980 years (estimate 2.8-3.5 million pounds). One of the most authoritative biography of Picasso John Richardson wrote, "[Picasso] repeatedly identified himself with the Minotaur - a mythical poluchelovek with a bull's head, in which victims were brought to young girls. Yet Picasso's Minotaur is a monster. On the contrary, being a victim of evil fate, it is just sympathy - blinded by the love of a little girl (which, of course, Marie-Therese Walter), he dutifully follows her. " Works on paper, formed when Picasso was fascinated by the study of the myth of the Minotaur, demonstrates his great skill painter. The drama depicts scenes underscore the vivid colors: brown head minotaur, red dress girl and green stems of a bouquet in her hands. In the profile of girls unmistakable features young Marie-Therese Walter, the muse and lover of the artist from the late 1920s. By the mid-1930s, when Picasso was torn between marriage with Olga and love for Marie-Therese, he was inclined to portray the Minotaur being miserable and tormented, blinded by the horrors of his environment.

Dating from 1967 year of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "The Artist" shows the figure of the shaggy and bearded man behind the easel (estimate 2.5-4.5 million pounds). This product was first put up for sale from a private collection.

Camille Claudel Parting Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 2,8-3,5 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

Work Camille Claudel (1864-1943) "Separation" (estimate 700-900 thousand pounds) - an early version of one of the most recognized masterpieces in the history of sculpture. Initially, the final sculpture, created at the height of the novel Claudel and Auguste Rodin called "Shakuntala" after the beauty of Hindu mythology, whose tragic separation from loved ones is described in the ancient Indian drama. At the auction of the work is also exhibited by Auguste Rodin - created in 1883 "Bust of Victor Hugo" (estimate 200-300 thousand pounds).

Becoming impressionism and art of the early XX century: by Renoir, Kandinsky and Matisse

Pierre Auguste Renoir umbrella. 1878 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 2,8-3,5 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) called "Umbrella" (estimate 4-7 million pounds) was written in 1878 - at the peak of impressionist art. Cloth refers to a series of works by Renoir, which depicts a woman having a rest on the nature. All these paintings were created over the years, soon after the first Impressionist exhibition, held in 1874. Despite the fact that the image of a woman with an umbrella appears in the works of Renoir, starting in 1867, in his more recent variation of this theme significantly affected by works of Claude Monet, Renoir is visited at Argenteuil summer 1873 and 1875. In this work, put up for auction for the first time in 25 years, excellent provenance. One of its first owners was Erwin Davis - famous collector, who lived in New York and in 1889 gave the Metropolitan Museum two works of Edouard Manet. Later painting owned Boston collector and philanthropist Robert Treat Paine II.

Kandinsky Murnau. A view of the church and the railway. 1909 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 5-7 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

landscapes painted Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) in Murnau in 1908 and 1909 respectively, are clear evidence of the peak of his creativity and began his revolutionary aspirations toward abstraction. Canvas in 1909 under the name "Murnau. View of the church and the railway "(estimate 5-7 million pounds) is an example of how the artist was able to achieve unity of bright color areas, which both add up to the big picture, and how freely floating above the surface. Kandinsky's works of those years show a departure from the influence of his works of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and of the French Fauvism.

View, captured on film, opened the back yard of the house in Murnau, where Kandinsky lived with his mistress Gabrielle Munter. Murnau's beauty not only aroused in the artist love for bright colors, but also instilled a love of folk art have raised questions about the "spirituality." Experiments with the technique of painting taken by the artist in 1908-1909, make written at the time of the out of the ordinary landscape into abstract thinking about the nature of art in general.

Kandinsky Vibration. 1942 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 5-8 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

abstract art Wassily Kandinsky component will be presented at the auction in 1942 canvas entitled "Vibration" (estimate 5-8 million pounds). Works written by the artist in Paris at the height of World War II, admittedly considered the peak of his creativity. These abstract paintings seem populous country with organic and biomorphic forms. "Vibration" is one of the very few large-scale abstractions of Kandinsky that period still in private hands (most of the work to date are concentrated in major museum collections around the world including New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Paris National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou ). To this day came and the black and white pencil sketch of this work, dated 1941 year. The scale and grandeur of the later abstractions of Kandinsky strengthened his reputation as one of the most daring and innovative artists of his time.

Henri Matisse A girl in a green dress. 1921 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 2,5-3,5 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

Dated 1921 painting by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), "Girl in a Green Dress" (estimate: £ 2.5-3.5 million) relates to the first years of the artist's life in Nice, where he was to spend two decades of his life. It was in Nice Matisse left the rigor of his early work, to the power of vivid colors and eroticism. Such cheerful mood were inconsistent with the atmosphere that prevailed in France during the First World War. This work was created by Matisse in the early days of his relationship with Henriette Darrikarrer - one of his muses who brought to his work a raid theatrics. The painting Henrietta dressed in a green robe and displayed based on the window sill, which is a vase of flowers. "A girl in a green dress", which occupies an important place in the artistic heritage of Matisse, was part of a number of outstanding collections, including the collection of Marcel Kapferer, Lillie P. Bliss, Ralph F. Colin and others.

Henri Matisse Dance. 1938 Christie's. 06.02.13 Estimate: 2,2-3,4 million pounds Source: Press Release Christie's

Established in 1938, the work of Henri Matisse titled "Dance" (estimate: 2,2-3,4 million pounds) is one of the earliest examples of works by the artist in collage technique, in which He continued working until his death. In the center of the gouache is a copy of one of the most recognizable works of the artist - the same pattern in 1910, the original of which now is in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg.

Source : Press Release Christie's