Sotheby’s Art Impressionniste et Moderne evening sale presents a major work by Paul Klee. Painted in 1937, Abend in N is emblematic of the artist’s subtle associations of geometric patterns and color. Held in the same private collection for the last 60 years, extremely well-preserved, the appearance at auction of this outstanding nocturnal composition is a major event.
The sale presents another nocturnal scene, this time by René Magritte: Le Temps jadis which combines many of the key elements of the artist’s pictorial vocabulary such as the bilboquet, the raven, fire, and mountains, plunges the viewer into the painter’s magical world of arbitrary juxtapositions.
Many other works by key artists of the 20th century are also represented in the sale such as a monumental bronze, Tigre de Sibérie, by Rembrandt Bugatti, a mysterious landscape by Emil Nolde, sculptures by Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel and a stunning floral composition by Odilon Redon. Surrealism is also in attendance with works by Francis Picabia as well as works by Victor Brauner, Man Ray and Pierre Roy.
