12 April 2014, 04:10 PM IST
The Sotheby's spring Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art will be held in New York on May 7, 2014. A significant selection of highlights from the sale will be on view in Sotheby's London galleries beginning tomorrow through April 15, before returning to New York for exhibition in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries beginning May 2.
Alberto Giacometti: Icons of 20th century art
Following Sotheby's sale of Alberto Giacometti's Grande tête mince (Grande tête de Diego) for $50 million in November 2013 – the highest price for a work of art in any Impressionist & Modern Art auction last year worldwide – the May sale will offer four sculptures and one oil by the artist. The selection is led by La Place, Giacometti's first multi-figural sculpture, which stands as one of his most powerful representations of psychological isolation and vulnerability (est. $12/18 million*). Reconciling the quiet life of the mind with the cacophony of urban existence was of central concern to the Existentialist movement in post-war France, and Giacometti was at the forefront in his investigation of this dilemma. La Place, which he conceived and cast in 1948, is the most provocative of his sculptural interpretations of this concept.
Seven decades of work by Pablo Picasso
The May auction will offer an impressive selection of 14 works by Pablo Picasso, with examples reaching across his remarkable career – from an early drawing dated to 1900, through a late oil painting from 1969. The group features Tête de Marie-Thérèse from 1932, a radiant example of his paintings depicting his beloved mistress of the early 1930s (est. $15/20 million). The present example may be counted among the most painterly and expressive of these pictures, created when Marie-Thérèse was firmly at the center of Picasso's artistic universe. Tête de Marie-Thérèse was part of Jacqueline Picasso's private collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures that her late husband had bequeathed her. Jacqueline generously gifted this work to William Rubin, director of prestigious department of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Claude Monet in the Garden, By The Sea And In The City
The Evening Sale will offer three impressive canvases by Impressionist master Claude Monet, including Le pont japonais which he painted at Giverny from 1918–24 (est. $12/18 million). Monet's spectacular images of the Japanese bridge spanning the lily pond of his lush garden are among the most recognizable images of 20thcentury art. These pictures capture the mystique of the meticulously-landscaped environment that served as Monet's inspiration during his later career. The present picture, which is one of the most richly painted in the series, can be seen in a photograph of the artist's Giverny studio, where it hangs in completion among other notable examples of the artist's late production.
Monet's Sur la falaise à Pourville – on offer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, sold to benefit its acquisitions fund – was one of the first major Impressionist landscapes to arrive in the United States (est. $5/7 million). The picture was purchased shortly after its completion in 1882 by the artist's Parisian dealer Durand-Ruel, who was instrumental in establishing Monet's reputation throughout Europe and abroad. In 1886, the work was acquired by William H. Fuller, the director of the National Wallpaper Company and a devoted early collector of Monet's art, who organized the first American exhibition of the artist's paintings at the Union Club in New York in 1891. This show effectively introduced Monet to an American audience which would include some of his most important patrons.
In addition to works by Monet, classic Impressionist canvases include a number of female portraits emerging from a Japanese Private Collection, with canvases by Auguste Renoir, Edward Degas and Pierre Bonnard among others.
Rediscovered works by Joan Miró
Three previously-undocumented works by Joan Miró that have been hidden in a vault for half a century will emerge for the first time in Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art sale this May. The collection features an extraordinary oil composition painted by Miró specifically for the acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Thomas Bouchard and his daughter Diane. Thomas's undistributed documentary Around and About Joan Mirócaptures the artist at work on Sans titre (est. $4/6 million), which he then gave directly to the Bouchards along with two other works to be offer in the Day Sale on 8 May. The film offers a fascinating look at Miró's artistic process.
Henri Matisse's La Séance du matin
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