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Modernités : de Rodin à Soulages

19 October 2017 | 5:00 PM CEST | Paris

SALE TOTAL

10,720,125EUR
Browse Lots
  • 8
    René Magritte
    Le Toit du monde
    LOT SOLD.2,688,750EUR
  • 13
    Nicolas de Staël
    Méditerranée
    LOT SOLD.967,500EUR
  • 6
    Pierre Soulages
    Peinture 65 x 81, 2 août 1975
    LOT SOLD.871,500EUR
  • 31
    Man Ray
    TEARFUL WOMAN
    LOT SOLD.751,500EUR
  • 23
    Roberto Matta
    Les Séparés vivants
    (also known as Funfural)
    LOT SOLD.691,500EUR
  • 10
    Marcel Duchamp
    Traveler's Folding Item
    LOT SOLD.631,500EUR
  • 16
    Francis Picabia
    Artemis
    LOT SOLD.607,500EUR
  • 4
    Auguste Rodin
    Iris messagère des dieux, étude sans tête, petit modèle
    LOT SOLD.487,500EUR
  • 19
    Fernand Léger
    L'Atelier de Chevreuse
    LOT SOLD.463,500EUR
  • 12
    Joan Miró
    Oiseau s'envolant
    LOT SOLD.319,500EUR
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Sale Number: PF1716 Lots : 40

SALE TOTAL

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The week of October 16 devoted to modern art at Sotheby's in Paris has now ended, with a grand total of €21.5 million. Three sales were staged at the Galerie Charpentier, featuring major works by some of the leading artists of the 20th century, several with outstanding provenances.

This week also marked the launch of a new sale entitled Modernités which provided a dialogue between the most outstanding artists of modern times, from the emergence of the avant-gardes to the present day. The highest price of the week was achived for a magisterial work by René Magritte, Le Toit du Monde, 1926, which was the subject of a battle between five bidders, culminating in €2,688,750 (lot 8). This composition was one of the first series of Surrealist paintings by the Belgian artist. Offered for the first time at auction, this enigmatic painting with little trace of any human figure was the first he used to employ the use of the human circulatory system, a stylistic figure found in some of his most iconic pieces of the next few years.

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For the first time, Sotheby’s will present during the FIAC a new auction of artworks by the most famous modern artists, from the emergence of the avant-garde until today.

The dialogues, contrasts, variations and convergences between these works are the common thread behind this auction. Sculptures by Rodin, such as the famous Iris, which reveals the first signs of the artist’s deconstruction and reinterpretation of the body, and confront a ready-made by Marcel Duchamp, the famous Travelling Box, the first flexible sculpture in the history of art and an icon of conceptual art. Among many other works, a masterwork by René Magritte will also figure as well as a painting by Max Ernst from the 1930s, compositions by Miro, and emblematic works by Man Ray, especially rare on the market and from a private Italian collection. Abstraction and the French Post-war school are also represented through an important work by Nicolas de Staël from the famous Mellon collection, which are completed by masterworks of contemporary art such as an impressive canvas by Pierre Soulages dating from 1975.

This unprecedented event during such an important art fair hopes to stimulate amateurs with this selection of emblematic works of the highest quality, provoking a renewed outlook on over a century of creation.

At the centre of the Modernities auction: from Rodin to Soulages, Sotheby’s will also present fifteen works by Man Ray, all from the Galleria Il Fauno, directed by Luciano Anselmino and issued from the Sergio Tomasinelli collection.

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Aurélie Vandevoorde
Senior Director
Head of Department
Impressionist & Modern Art
Paris
+33 1 53 05 53 56
aurelie.vandevoorde@sothebys.com
Etienne Hellman
Senior Director
Head of the Works on Paper Sale
Specialist
Impressionist and Modern Art
+33 1 53 05 53 73
etienne.hellman@sothebys.com
Andrew Strauss
Consultant
Impressionist & Modern Art
andrew.strauss@sothebys.com
Cyrille Cohen
Vice-président, France
Impressionist & Modern Art
Contemporary Art
+33 1 53 05 52 75
cyrille.cohen@sothebys.com
Jeanne Calmont
Director
Specialist
Impressionist & Modern Art
+33 1 53 05 52 79
Jeanne.Calmont@sothebys.com
Bénédicte Van Campen
Deputy Director
Specialist
Expert Liaison
Impressionist & Modern Art
+33 1 53 05 53 57
benedicte.vancampen@sothebys.com
Aurélie Massou
Deputy Director
Head of the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale
Specialist
Impressionist & Modern Art
+33 1 53 05 52 36
aurelie.massou@sothebys.com
Juliane Cuisson
Junior Cataloguer
Impressionist & Modern Art
+33 1 53 05 52 59
juliane.cuisson@sothebys.com
Aude Clerempuy
Administrator
Impressionist & Modern Art
+33 1 5305 52 90
aude.clerempuy@sothebys.com
   
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