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Paintings, graphic works and sculpture from the Ib Jorgensen collection will come under the hammer at James Adam in Dublin on November 11.  The most significant  Irish works are Girl with Sunflower by Colin Middleton (1952) which is estimated at 15,000-25,000 and Camille Souter’s Blasted Ballyorney which is estimated at 8,000-12,000. Jorgensen Fine Art is no longer operating as a gallery but Ib Jorgensen will continue to represent artists and exhibiting at fairs.  The catalogue is online.  Here is a small selection:

Colin Middleton RHA RUA MBE (1910-1983) Girl with Sunflower  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 15,000 AT HAMMER

Rowan Gillespie (b.1953) Couple (4,000-6,000)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 13,000 AT HAMMER

Camille Souter HRHA (b.1929) Blasted Ballyorney   UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 10,000 AT HAMMER

Three remarkable paintings by Claude Monet from an important American collection will come up at Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art in New York on November 4.  Created in the 1880’s and ‘90’s the works trace the evolution of Monet’s style as he challenged the limits of High Impressionism and experimented with an approach that would culminate in the Series Paintings of his later years. Together they are estimated to achieve more than $40 million.

The group is led by Alice Hoschedé au jardin from 1881, which the artist personally selected as his standout work from that year ($25/35 million).  She was his 37 year old lover and the wife of his close friend Ernst Hoschedé.  Painted in 1887 Sous les Peupliers, a fine evocation of the French countryside, is estimated at $12-18 million.  Eglise de Vernon, soleil from 1894 is one of a series of the town of Vernon on the banks of the Seine.  It is estimated at $7-9 million.  Following a special viewing in Hong Kong this weekend the paintings will go on display in New York from October 31.

UPDATE:  The three works totaled $61.9 million, led by Alice Hoschedé au jardin from 1881 which made $33,765,000 million.

Claude Monet
Alice Hoschedé au jardin  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $33.7 million.

Claude Monet
Église de Vernon, soleil

Claude Monet
Sous les Peupliers

Manet’s Le Printemps and Leger’s Les constructeurs aver arbre will highlight Christie’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on November 5.  These pivotal works of the Impressionist and Modern movements are estimated respectively at $35-35 million and $16-22 million.  The 40 lots on offer in this sale reflect current collector demand for works of great rarity, strong provenance, and exceptional museum exhibition history.  A total of 90% are fresh to the market, having remained in private collections for a decade or more, while nearly 80% of the works have been featured in a museum exhibition.

“We have assembled a sale tailored to the refined tastes of our global collecting community, keeping exceptional quality and rarity as our guiding principles. The resulting sale is an exciting, sweeping representation of the Impressionist and Modern eras in European Art, embracing multiple mediums and movements and tracing the evolution of art from Impressionism through to Cubism, and on to Surrealism in each of the media instructive to these genres. Matisse’s Nu assis, fond bleu and a suite of cubist works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Severini, are particularly thrilling to offer alongside the openings of the Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs and Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection exhibitions at MoMA and The Met,” noted Brooke Lampley, Head of Department, Impressionist & Modern Art.  Here are some highlights and a video in which Adrien Meyer, international director of Impressionist and Modern Art, discusses Le Printemps.

EDOUARD MANET, Le Printemps, oil on canvas, 1881, $25-35million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014.  UPDATE: IT MADE $65 MILLION

FERNAND LÉGER, Les constructeurs avec arbre, oil on canvas, 1949-1950, $16-22million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2014  

HENRI MATISSE, Nu assis, fond bleu, oil on canvas, 1936, $4-6million. Courtesy Christie’s Images ltd., 2014  UPDATE: THIS MADE $5.4 MILLION