Posted on 02/14/2022 11:38:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
Sotheby's is announcing Tuesday three more major paintings to be offered at its March sales in London, including paintings from Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh.
Leading the three is one of Monet’s 250 waterlilies, which was painted between 1914 and 1917, with an estimate of between £15 million and £20 million (US$20.3 million and US$27 million), according to a news release
The work has not been exhibited since 1995, when it was displayed across three museums in Japan. It was last auctioned in 1978 at Christie’s in New York with an undisclosed selling price, which was probably around $245,000, according to Thomas Boyd Bowman, impressionist and modern art specialist at Sotheby’s.
Out of 250 of Monet’s waterlilies, 102 are exhibited in museums around the world, making this work a very popular piece for collectors, Bowman says.
Picasso’s Buste de femme accoudée, 1938, with an estimate between £10 million and £15 million, tells the story of his two lovers and muses: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar. Picasso combines the features of the two women, celebrating both in one painting.
The work is painted entirely in shades of grey, a monochromic technique Picasso also used in his great masterpiece Guernica, which was painted in 1937, the news release said. The 2012-13 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition “Picasso: Black and White” featuring this this technique, included Bustde de femme accoudée.
Another new highlight is van Gogh’s Eglogue en Provence—un couple d'amoureux, 1888, with an estimate between £7 million and £10 million. The work features two lovers walking along the bank of a river with a vibrant palette indicative of van Gogh’s inspiration from the colors in South of France and from Japanese prints.
The auction will also include Belgian surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece L’empire des lumières and five additional works
(Excerpt) Read more at barrons.com ...
That’s a lot of Monet.....................
Monet couldn’t paint and Picasso couldn’t see.................
I wonder if the new Bidens coming into the market will dilute the elite buyer pool.
totally agree
both were visually and conceptually impaired
this makes art critics look like scam artists working for the communist party
one of the planks of communism is to make the culture turn on itself
Random trivia factoid... A-bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer grew up in an apartment with three Van Gogh paintings and several Picassos.
Good old movie on Vincent Van Gogh...
Lust for Life... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life_(1956_film)
“Pocket change”, says Salvator Mundi.
this makes art critics look like scam artists working for the communist party
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As my art teacher in collage said, “Art ended after the Renaissance”.
It’s ‘art’ alright...
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I was walking down the hall in the local elementary school, in the kindergarten section, when I noticed a whole wall full of Picasso’s paintings.
LOL- i just bought seem of those today-
ISWYDT!......................
I used to see Picasso like most other people, until I found a huge collection of his work in my high school library. And one of his most minor works suddenly grabbed me and convinced me of his genius.
“Minor” or “minimalist” don’t do it justice, because it had only two lines in it. And yet it was instantly recognizable, and the more I looked at it the more I realized that it was “perfect”. The lines were not straight, having some subtle curves in them.
And it was not something I could reproduce, even if I tried a thousand times. The slightest change and it would no longer be “perfect”.
This is not to say that all his works were that good, just that in his vast portfolio, there was a strong chance that hidden within was the spirit of art, if I could find it.
Every time they say that (bullshit) artist’s name on Antiques Roadshow it is hushed, reverent tones.
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