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aul Delvaux and Rufino Tamayo lead the Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale with large-scale, atmospheric oils painted within years of each other. The Modern and Surrealist offerings are complemented by ground-breaking works by José Clemente Orozco, Alice Rahon, Cundo Bermúdez, Mario Carreño and Tilsa Tsuchiya, among others, from an important Latin American collection.
The sale includes graphic work by Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, George Grosz and a superb selection of works on paper by Françoise Gilot. Sculpture highlights range from a dynamic piece by Max Ernst to bronzes by Julio Gonzáles, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and marbles by Agustín Cárdenas.
Auction Highlights
Above Image: Artist and Sculpturer Barbara Hepworth, March 1953 (Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo)
Completed just one year before Léger's death, the mural-sized La grande parade (état définitif), 1954, is considered a defining work within the artist's oeuvre; it's the "culmination of his career-long endeavor to both represent and reach a public beyond the small circle of connoisseurs familiar with fine art," writes Nancy Spector for the Guggenheim. (Nancy Spector, 'Fernand Léger, 'La grande parade [état définitif]', guggenheim.org)
