Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 81.3 mln in Christie s New York

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Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч - The

1 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч - The masterpiece leads on a stellar night of Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale - Packed with major works by the greatest artists of the age, the opening sale of the 20th Century season at Christie s in New York totals USD 4793 million NEW YORK Christie s highly anticipated season of 20th Century sales in New York got off to an impressive start with the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Packed with masterworks by Claude Monet ( ), Edouard Vuillard ( ), Vincent Van Gogh ( ), Fernand Léger ( ), Pablo Picasso ( ) and René Magritte ( ), to name but a few, the sale realised USD 4793 mln the second highest total for an Impressionist & Modern Art auction in Christie s history 1/7

2 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч The auction was 88 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent by value, announced christiescom The top-priced lot of the night was Vincent van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ, executed in the year before his death This richly painted view from the window of the artist s room in the asylum at Saint-Rémy was completed in the late summer of 1889 The subject of a prolonged bidding battle, the painting was finally acquired for USD 813 mln (including buyer s premium), the second highest auction price in history for the artist The record price for a work by Van Gogh still stands at USD 825 mln, which was paid for Portrait du Dr Gachet (1890) at Christie s in May 1990 The Van Gogh was one of a rich and remarkably deep offering of highlights, which began with the first lots in the sale - a museum-quality selection of New York Dada works from the Beyond Boundaries collection Rarely offered at auction, these 10 pieces were assembled with the guidance of renowned advisor Alain Tarica, who also worked with Yves Saint Laurent 2/7

3 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч and Pierre Bergé, and Hubertus and Renata Wald Within this group, new world auction record prices were set for works by Jean Crotti ( ) and Su zanne Duchamp ( ), as well as a world auction record for a sculpture by Man Ray ( ) The top price among the Beyond Boundaries works, however, was achieved when Wassily Kandinsky s ( ) Improvisation mit Pferden (Studie für Improvisation 20) (1911) was bought for USD 127 mln The second highest price on the night was realised when Fernand Léger s Contraste de 3/7

4 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч formes from 1913, sold for US D 701 mln, easily eclipsing the previous world auction record for the artist USD 392 mln, which was set in 2012 Offered for the first time at auction, this groundbreaking painting of the early 20th century came from the property of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, with proceeds from its sale going towards the foundation s philanthropic mission The Van Gogh masterwork was one of a number of stunning paintings offered from The Collection of Nancy Lee and Percy R Bass They included Les régates de Nice,a 1921 painting by Henri Matisse ( ) depicting two young women gazing at the sea from their apartment on the French coast, which sold for USD 166 mln, and Peinture by Joan Miró ( ), from April 1933, which realised USD 204 mln The night s combined total for the paintings from the Bass Collection was USD 1434 mln, with further works to be offered over the coming days The freshness of stellar collections was one of a number of strong themes in the sale The selection offered from The Collection of Stanford Z Rothschild, which included works by Mo net, 4/7

5 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч Camille Pissarro ( ), Odilon Redon ( ) and Robert Delaunay ( ), was led by Claude Monet s Le Rio de la Salute, which sold for USD 82 mln The pictures collected by acclaimed Egyptologist William Kelly Simpson also attracted deep bidding The highest price achieved was for Édouard Vuillard s superlative Misia et Vallotton from 1899 Purchased by Professor Simpson and his wife, a granddaughter of John D Rockefeller, Jr, the painting was described as possibly the finest Vuillard ever to be offered at auction and certainly lived up to its billing, selling for USD 178 mln - almost USD 10 million higher than the previous world auction record for the artist The total for the six works from the collection offered on the night was USD 282 mln Perhaps the defining feature of the auction, though, was the sheer number of masterpieces, which saw thousands of people visit Christie s Rockefeller Center galleries to enjoy the pre-sale exhibition Such widespread interest in the art on offer was reflected in further world auction records being set for René Magritte, whose iconic L empire des lumières 5/7

6 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч sold for USD 206 mln, drawing the first of numerous bouts of applause from the saleroom, and Emil Nolde s ( ) Indische Tänzerin (1917), which was acquired for USD 53 mln Other headline prices on the night included Pablo Picasso s Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) from 1954, which remained in the artist s personal collection for many years, has rarely been seen in public, and was being offered at auction for the first time After another long and intense bidding battle, the portrait of the artist s muse and lover sold for USD 369 mln Matinée sur la Seine (1897) by Claude Monet, one of a series of 22 canvases the Impressionist master produced of inland water landscapes, realised USD 234 mln Later in the sale, Picasso s 1937 work, Figure (de femme inspirée par la guerre d Espagne), sold for USD 161 mln It was a great sale, a sale to remember, said Christie s CEO Guillaume Cerutti afterwards Je ssie Fertig, Head of the Evening Sale, remarked on the extraordinary interest in collections, which featured many works that had long been held in private hands, and also underlined the extraordinarily international spread of bidding on the night 6/7

7 Van Gogh s Laboureur dans un champ sold for USD 813 mln in Christie s New York Автор: artnovinicom Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:33ч - Последна промяна Вторник, 14 Ноември 2017г 09:43ч The Impressionist & Modern Art sales continue on Tuesday 14 November with the Day Sale and the Works on Paper Sale 7/7

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