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  • IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART MAKES $170,478,000 AT SOTHEBY’S

    Picasso - Femmes Lisant

    Gauguin Jeune tahitienne

    Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale at Sotheby’s New York on May 3 made $170,478,000.  This was within but very much at the lower end of the overall estimate of $158.9-229.7 million. The 59 lot auction was 74.6% sold by lot, and saw a total of 37 works sell for over $1 million.
    The top lot was Pablo Picasso’s Femmes lisant (Deux personnages). It made $21,362,500 in a sale where auction records were established for the Surrealist artist Paul Delvaux and for a sculpture by Paul Gauguin. Jeune tahitienne sold for 11,282,500.  It was carved during Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti between 1890 and 1893, and is the only fully-worked bust portrait the artist is known to have created. It marks the eighth highest price for any work by Gauguin at auction.

    PAUL DELVAUX 1897 - 1994 LES CARIATIDES

    Les Cariatides by Paul Delvaux from 1946 made $9,042,500 in a sale which saw strong prices for Surrealist works.

    The Expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky’s Frau mit grünem Fächer (Woman with a green fan) made $11,282,500, just under its high estimate of $12 million. This is the second highest price for a work by Jawlensky.  There were strong prices too for Magritte and Dali.  The art illustrated represents the top five highest prices for the sale.
    The Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale on May 5 at Sotheby’s in New York brought in $38,982,225.

    ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941 FRAU MIT GRÜNEM FÄCHER (WOMAN WITH A GREEN FAN)

    Picasso - COUPLE À LA GUITARE made $9.6 million.

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