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
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However there is 20th century genius in the works of NC Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Maynard Dixon....
agree
that is a POS
gag me
NC Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, Maynard Dixon.
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Yeah I know all of them - not in the same league as the Renaissance where geniuses were apprenticed to geniuses and so produced great art which has never been equaled.
Those people, using Renaissance standards and terminology, would be labeled cartoonists, not artists. Perhaps if the apprenticeship guilds had continued to the present, they might have turned into artists.
Thanks!!
lol that’s cool- peeps=- what’s not to like about them lol
Thanks for linking me to this; I had missed the original post.
Love both the images....Thanks.
Lol. I bought a package,of,them and had them at my parents home, I left the room, came back and one was “missing” lol. I sent out an all
Points bulletin for,the issuing peep. The culprit finall confessed. Hahaha
Show me the Monet!................
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