Top-lot auction of Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's February 5, 2014 will be the canvas Camille Pissarro "Boulevard Montmartre, Spring Morning" 7-10 million pounds. Painting recently returned to the heirs of restitution

Camille Pissarro
Boulevard Montmartre , spring morning . 1897
Sotheby's. 5.02.3014
Estimate: 7-10 million pounds

Top-lot auction of Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's, which will be held in London on February 5, 2014 , will be painting by Camille Pissarro "Boulevard Montmartre, spring morning " with an estimate of 10.7 million pounds. Cloth was recently returned to the heirs of the Jewish Restitution industrialist Max Zilberberg (Max Silberberg).

living in Breslau Max Silberberg has assembled one of the finest art collections in Germany XIX - XX centuries. In his collection were paintings of Manet , Renoir and Sisley , as well as masterpieces of realism and post-impressionism , including works by Delacroix and Courbet, Cezanne and Vah Gogh. Paintings he bought directly from well-known artists (for example, his friend Max Liebermann ) or a reputable galleries and dealers - Paul Rosenberg and Georges Bernheim . Collection Max Zilberberg was widely known in the world, many works have been published, and the owner generously provided them to the international exhibitions in Vienna and New York .

Since coming to power of the Nazis and the company lost Silberberg and collection. Paintings , including " Boulevard Montmartre ", were sold at auction in Berlin auction house Paul Graupe in 1935-1936 years. In 1938, the son of an industrialist , Alfred, was arrested and sent to Buchenwald . It soon was released on condition that he leave the country immediately . Max Silberberg himself and his wife Joanna died in Auschwitz .

After the death of Alfred in 1984, his wife began searching Hertha works from the collection of his father in law , and eventually became one of the first heiress who began to return works of art at the Washington principles in 1998 . First restitution took place in 1999 . A Pissarro painting was returned to the family Silberberg in 2000. Cityscape " Boulevard Montmartre " after the ill-fated sale in 1935 changed several owners and eventually got to the couple collectors Loeb , who in turn gave it to the Museum of Israel in Jerusalem. Museum staff investigated and found legitimate provenance owner . In gratitude Hertha Silberberg provided linen rental Israel Museum , where it was before the death of the owner in 2013. Now her heirs decided to sell the work .

Pissarro Job refers to a series of landscapes streets in Paris , which the artist wrote in the late 1890s . This series can be meaningfully compared with a series of many landscapes by Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral . This landscape of Montmartre Pissarro greatly appreciated . In a letter to his Marchand Durand-Ruel , he once wrote that he had decided to send a " Boulevard Montmartre , Spring morning " on display in the Carnegie Institute , and asked not to sell until the job. This is one of the most important works of Impressionism, put up for public auction in recent years. And it is unlikely it would have been in the auction, if not restitution . By the way , another Parisian landscape Camille Pissarro, " Rue Saint - Honore. It is noon. Rain " , the heirs of the former owner is not the first attempt to win from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum . Recently American appellate court allowed them to sue for it again .

prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru