Modern, Surrealist and Post-War works from a private European collection will come up at Christie’s in London on February 4. The collection showcases important examples by Modigliani, Miró, Magritte, Delvaux, Picasso, Giacometti, Moore, Fontana and others. The group is led by Joan Miró’s L’oiseau au plumage déployé vole vers l’arbre argenté, 1953 (£7-9 million) and Amedeo Modigliani’s Les deux filles, 1918 (£6-8 million). The full collection of 31 Modern, Surrealist and Post-War works of art is expected to realise a combined final total in excess of £64 million.
Olivier Camu, deputy chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s said that the collection spans the personal collection journey of a private collector over almost half a century from the 1960’s. “This collector’s discipline has always been to focus on quality rather than quantity, thus every painting and work in this collection is a signature work for the artist in question”. Pictured below from left to right is Miro’s L’oiseau, Femme de Venise V by Giacometti, Les Deux Filles, a rare double portrait by Modigliani and Les Compagnons de la Peur 1942 by Rene Magritte, which centres on the subject of transformation with four owls transforming from bird to plant world or vice versa.
Works from the collection by Miro, Giacometti, Modigliani and Magritte.