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ENDURING COLLECTORS IN RESILIENT GLOBAL MARKET

Friday, February 5th, 2016

Paul Delvaux – Le Miroir – sold for £7.3 million, an auction record.

Collectors were out in force as Sotheby’s recorded sales of £126.8 million in London this week. The enduring appetite of collectors in a resilient global market was noted by Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department.

She said: “The outstanding result of today’s ‘Picasso in Private’ auction drew the week of sales to a close on a high note, with prices soaring above high estimate. Looking at the results across our first sale series of 2016, we have seen solid demand and activity at each level of the market across as broad an international spectrum of participants as ever. We saw 5 works selling for over £7 million / $10 million through to 19 works that sold over £1 million / 26 over $1million, and extraordinary strength in sculpture and Surrealist art this week. With a remarkable 543 lots offered over the course of the week at a sell-through rate of 78%, the sale results reflect the enduring appetite of collectors in a resilient global market.”

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PICASSO’S PALETTE SELLS FOR £45,000

Friday, February 5th, 2016

Picasso’s palette sold for £45,000.

The first of Picasso’s paint palette’s ever to appear at auction sold for £45,000 at Sotheby’s in London today. Prices soared at the Picasso in Private sale of work from the collection of the artist’s grand daughter Marina.

A glazed vase – Trois Visages – sold for £305,000 over a top estimate of £70,000 and Femme Debut – with the same high estimate – made £173,000. A bronze sculpture inspired by Marie Therese Walter sold for £425,000 over a top estimate of £180,000. A pencil on paper work, Études pour femme au chapeau, made £250,000 over a top estimate of £70,000. The sale totalled £12 million.

Visage

Étude d’un buste de femme, bras levé, sold for £221,000

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SOTHEBY’S IMPRESSIONIST, MODERN AND SURREAL SALES ACHIEVE £93.7 MILLION SO FAR

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

Auguste Rodin – Iris

Impressionist, Modern and Surreal art brought in a total of £93.7 million at Sotheby’s in London last night. The top lot was Pablo Picasso’s Tete de Femme which sold for£18.9 million. It was a portrait of his muse Marie Therese Walter painted in 1935. A lifetime cast of Auguste Rodin’s Iris – once in the collection of Sylvester Stallone – sold for £11.6 million. The Surrealist section was led by Le Miroir by Paul Delvaux which sold for £7.3 million, a new auction record for the artist. Henri Matisse’s La Lecon de Piano sold for £10.8 million and Claude Monet’s Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint Georges Majeur sold for £11.6 million.

La Lecon de Piano by Henri Matisse

There were participants from 35 countries, which was on a par with last year. Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department, said: “Tonight we saw continued market activity across all price levels, with depth of bidding from a broad international spectrum. Five lots selling for more than £7/$10 million and there was particular strength for sculpture and Surrealism – with record prices achieved for both Rodin and Delvaux.”

Sales of Impressionist and Modern Art continue today.

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IMPRESSIONIST, MODERN AND SURREALIST ART AUCTIONS

Sunday, January 31st, 2016

An exceptional painting by Henri Matisse is a highlight at Sotheby’s in London on February 3. The Impressionist and Modern Art and Surrealist evening sales feature a variety of masterpieces. The Matisse – entitled La Lecon de piano – has emerged after 85 years in a private collection and is estimated at £12-18 million. Here is a quick preview:

(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for January 27, 2016 and December 23, 2015)

Rene Magritte – Sheherazade (£500,000-700,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE £785,000

Paul Signac – Voile dans la brume. Canal de la Giudecca (£850,000-1.2 million). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £1,025,000

Francis Picabia – Le Ventilateur (£1.8-2.5 million, UPDTE: THIS MADE £2.3 MILLION

Rene Magritte – L’usage de la parole (£500,000-700,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE £965,000

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BAROQUE MASTERPIECE BOUND FOR LOS ANGELES

Friday, January 29th, 2016

Orazio Gentileschi – Danaë

Gentileschi’s Baroque masterpiece Danaë was the top lot at Sotheby’s $53.5 million evening sale of Master Paintings in New York. It made $30.5 million – more than seven times the previous world auction record for the artist. The monumental work was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Commissioned in 1621 by the nobleman Giovanni Antonio Sauli for his palazzo in Genoa, the work captures a scene from the myth of Danaë in which the daughter of King Acrisius of Argo is spirited away to a secret chamber to dissuade all male suitors. While mortals are deterred, Jupiter, God of the Sky and Thunder, is not — he catches a glimpse and promptly falls in love with the princess, materializing in her bedroom as a shower of gold coins. In Gentileschi’s rendering, Jupiter’s arrival is announced by Cupid who pulls back the curtains to reveal Danaë.

A figurehead of the Italian Baroque period, Orazio Gentileschi began his career in Rome where he, like many others of his time, worked in close proximity with Roman and visiting artists. By 1600, a young artist by the name of Caravaggio was a constant companion, whose friendship translated to great artistic influence. In his later years, Gentileschi became known as one of the most talented and distinct Caravaggesque painters, a trait that he passed along to his daughter, the most celebrated female artist of the 17th century, Artemesia Gentileschi.

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TAUBMAN OLD MASTERS BRING IN $24.1 MILLION

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

Old Master paintings and drawings from the collection of Alfred Taubman brought in $24.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night. The top was was Valentin de Boulogne’s The Crowning with Thorns which sold for $5.2 million and set one of six new artist records. Raphael’s Portrait of Valerio Belli – Just 4¾” in Diameter – made $3.3 million as did The Blue Page, Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait of his nephew. The annual Masters Week auctions in New York are continuing. All images courtesy Sotheby’s. (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for November 5, 2015).

Valentin de Boulogne
The Crowning with Thorns

Bernardo Bellotto – Venice, the Grand Canal looking east from the Campo di San Vio sold for $3.01 million

Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael
Profile Portrait of Valerio Belli, Bust Length, Facing Left

Thomas Gainsborough – The Blue Page.

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MONET, PICASSO, MATISSE, WARHOL, FREUD AND RICHTER

Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

sothebys art Art by Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Freud and Richter have been unveiled together for the first time by Sotheby’s ahead of London’s upcoming auctions of Impressionist, Modern, Surreal and Contemporary art. Highlights include Picasso’s ‘golden muse’, Marie Thérèse Walter (£16-20m): Lucian Freud’s deeply intimate portrait of 17-year-old lover while pregnant with daughter Bella (£7-10m); a monumental abstract canvas by the world’s most valuable living painter, Gerhard Richter (£14-20m); Matisse’s exceptional La Leçon de piano, emerging after 89 years in a private British collection (£12-18m); Andy Warhol’s iconic Large Campbell’s Soup Can (£4.5-6.5m) and Monet’s spectacular view of the Palazzo Ducale on the Grand Canal, Venice (£12-18m).

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WORKS BY PICASSO THAT STAYED IN HIS STUDIO

Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

An exciting opportunity to acquire works on paper, ceramics and terracotta sculpture by Pablo Picasso that remained in the artist’s studio throughout his lifetime arises at Sotheby’s in London on February 5. They are from the collection of his granddaughter Marina Picasso. A masterful overview of Picasso’s career in its entirety, spanning every decade of his oeuvre and encompassing each of the artist’s genres – including many that mark the genesis of his greatest ideas – the collection of 187 works includes 70 ceramics and terracotta sculptures and 106 works on paper. Estimates range from £4,000 to £180,000 and the sale is expected to make a combined total of £6.9–9.8 million. It will be held the morning of February 5following Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art evening and day sales on February 3 and 4.

Femme a la robe entrouverte

Femme debout.

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EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAIT OF THE MAHARAJAH OF INDORE

Monday, January 25th, 2016

An extraordinary oil portrait of the Maharajah of Indore is included in the collection of French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949) at Sotheby’s in Paris on April 5 and 6. A painter, engraver, sculptor, decorator, an illustrator for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, Boutet de Monvel was one of the most celebrated portraitists of his day. His clients included great names of international high society. The sale will present portraits of the Maharajah and Maharani of Indore, William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr, the Duchess of Brissac, together with stunning depictions of the artist’s wife Delfina and his daughter Sylvie. The Maharajah is wearing the Indore Pearls, diamonds weighing 47 carats each mounted on a pearl necklace by Chaumet for this portrait. The 300 lots on offer also comprise the contents of his “Hotel particulier” and studio in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Art Deco pieces, furniture designed by Boutet de Monvel himself and fashion illustrations.

Described as “the most handsome man in Europe” by the US press, Bernard Boutet de Monvel lived a life worthy of a Fitzgerald novel. A war hero during WWI, he was posted in Morocco in 1917-19 and spent the rest of his life between Paris, New York and Palm Beach. He died in 1949 in the same plane crash as Edith Piaf’s great love and boxing champion, Marcel Cerdan. Highlights will be shown in London from February 26 to March 1.

Bernard Boutet de Monvel
The Maharadjah of Indore (300,000-500,000)

Bernard Boutet de Monvel
Self-portrait, place Vendôme (200,000-300,000)

Bernard Boutet de Monvel
A mirror dining table, circa 1927 (20,000-30,000)

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PROPERTY FROM COLLECTION OF THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

Property from the collection of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014) will be offered at Sotheby’s in London on March 2. An instinctive entrepreneur, patron of the arts, author, countrywoman and – famously – a great poultry enthusiast, the Duchess spent the last ten years of her life at The Old Vicarage, a charming 18th-century house in Edensor, a village on the Chatsworth Estate. Over 450 lots of personal belongings and chattels from her home, attesting to her remarkable life, will be offered for sale with estimates ranging from £10 – 40,000. Together they are estimated to realise £500,000-700,000.

Objects offered in the sale range from furniture to objets d’art and artworks. There are two sketches by Jacob Epstein (from a set of four, one of which Lucian Freud had used as a coal shovel); photographic portraits of the Mitford sisters; and a clock given to her by Prince Ali Khan. Personal jewellery includes a diamond heart-shaped brooch designed by her husband Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and given to her to mark their Diamond wedding anniversary, as well as myriad butterflies, beetles, spiders and caterpillars rendered as brooches in diamonds, gold and gems. Over 130 paintings, drawings and prints attest to her lifelong patronage of the arts, including works by the artists Lucian Freud, Duncan Grant and Jo Self (former artist-in-residence to His Holiness the Dalai Lama). Her collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia is included along with a rare pre-publication copy of Brideshead Revisited from 1944 inscribed by her friend Evelyn Waugh and estimated at £15,000-20,000.

A view of the interior of the Vicarage.

A signed prepublication copy of Brideshead Revisited.

A matched pair of large Continental earthenware.

An interior view of The Old Vicarage at Edensor.

The collection of Elvis memorabilia.

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