Studie zu Improvisation 3 by Wassily Kandinsky is estimated at £12.18 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2013 (CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE). UPDATE: IT MADE £13,501,875
La tige de la fleur rouge pousse vers la lune (The Stem of the Red Flower Grows Toward the Moon) by Joan Miró (1893-1983) is estimated at £5.2 to 7 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2013 (CLICK TO ENLARGE).
Wassily Kandinsky’s Expressionist masterpiece Studie zu Improvisation 3 leads Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on June 18. Most of the works from the series are in major institutions. This third study is estimated at £12-18 million.
The London sale of 44 lots presents a vareity of inspiring works from the roots of Impressionism evident in Eugène Boudin’s (1824-1898) 1864 painting Scène de plage (£500,000-700,000) to Henry Moore’s Stone Form, a unique abstract in granite from 1984 (£1.2-1.8 million). The sale is expected to bring in from an estimated range from £52 to 75 million.
UPDATE: The sale realed £64,076,575, selling 84% by lot and 87% by value. The top price was paid for Kandinsky’s Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909.