Picasso’s £49.8 Million Muse Leads Impressionist & Modern Art Sale

Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1937.
Sold for: £49,827,000.

The formal experimentation and emotional intensity that characterise Picasso's most celebrated portraits of women are embodied in Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter).

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Pablo Picasso, Le matador, 1970.
Sold for: £16,521,500

Monumental in scale, highly charged and painted in vivid colours, Le matador is the culmination of a life-long obsession of Picasso’s that remained one of the most important themes throughout his career.

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André Derain, Bateaux à Collioure.
Sold for: £10,876,500.

Completed during the summer of 1905 at Collioure, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, the present work is one of Derain’s most accomplished Fauve landscapes. Matisse had invited Derain to the small coastal town in early July and they spent the following two months working in close proximity, often painting very similar subjects.

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Umberto Boccioni, Testa + luce + ambiente.
Sold for: £9,070,100.

An incredibly rare example of Futurist painting, Boccioni's Testa + luce + ambiente encompasses the energy, passion and audacity of this young group of Italian artists.

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Alberto Giacometti, Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau.
Sold for: £7,602,400.

Elegant and enigmatic, Alberto Giacometti's Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau is a remarkable arrangement of the key figures central to the artist’s work – the standing woman and the walking man, set upon an impressive quadruple branched chandelier.

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Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme.
Sold for: £6,360,500.

Jacqueline was Picasso's devoted second wife who remained with him until the end of his life, and the artists' renderings of her in a variety of guises constitute the largest group of images of any of the women in his life.

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Marc Chagall, Le Village Bleu.
Sold for: £3,650,900.

Colour was always central to Chagall's art and it took on a new significance in the years after the Second World War when he settled in the small town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Like many artists before him, he was captivated by the unique intensity of light and colour that he found on France's Mediterranean coast.

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Claude Monet, La porte du jardin à Vétheuil.
Sold for: £3,086,400

La porte du jardin à Vétheuil depicts a view of Monet's garden at Vétheuil, a small village situated along the Seine, where the artist and his family lived from September 1878 until December 1881.

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Salvador Dalí, Maison pour érotomane.
Sold for: £3,538,000.

Dating from the height of Dalí’s engagement with Surrealism, Maison pour érotomane depicts a Catalan landscape, its rocks – a regular feature in the artist’s paintings of the period – metamorphosing in front of the viewer’s eyes into a fantastical, dream-like image.

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Salvador Dalí, Gradiva.
Sold for: £2,691,250.

Painted in 1931, Gradiva is a jewel-like composition uniting Dalí’s unique painterly vision with the technical virtuosity characteristic of his early Surrealist art. Depicted with minute, painstakingly executed details, the iconography of the present work combines several major motifs from Dalí’s early – and most innovative – stage of Surrealism.

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