Claude Monet L’entrée de Giverny en hiver (£4.5 - 6.5 million). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £7.3 MILLION.
Works of exceptional quality and importance from every key period in the canon will be offered at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale in London on February 8. Highlights include Joan Miró’s monumental Peinture of 1933, estimated at £7-10 million, Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered landscape Seeufer mit Birken (£6 – 8 million), which has not been seen in public in over a century, a rare and atmospheric winter scene by Claude Monet, L’entrée de Giverny en hiver (£4.5 – 6.5 million), and one of Fernand Léger’s definitive compositions of the 1940s, La Jeune fille à l’échelle (£3.8 – 4.5 million).
Joan Miró Peinture (£7-10 million). Click to enlarge. THIS FAILED TO SELL.
The auction features a particularly strong Surrealist group, with works by Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. There is an outstanding group of paintings by German artists including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Lyonel Feininger and Otto Dix. The sale is estimated to realise in excess of £78 million.
Gustav Klimt Seeufer mit Birken (Lakeshore with Birches) (£6 - 8 million). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: No bids at the auction, quickly sold privately afterwards for £5.6 million.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Das Boskett: Albertplatz in Dresden (£5 – 7 million). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: SOLD FOR £7,321,250.