Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant), 1932.
Estimate upon request.
Monumental in scale and richly painted, this remarkably tender and intimate portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted in 1932, known as Pablo Picasso’s 'year of wonders'.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Joan Miró, Peinture.
Estimate: £8,000,000–12,000,000.
Striking in its modernity and imposing in scale, Peinture, dating from June 1933, exemplifies the stylistic qualities that distinguish Miró not only as a master Surrealist, but also as a leading figure of the European avant-garde in the inter-war years.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Alberto Giacometti, Le Chat, cast in 1955.
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With its body in perfect alignment, Alberto Giacometti's Le Chat is one of the most recognizable compositions of his post-war production, a period during which he created some of the most remarkable sculpture of the twentieth century.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Claude Monet, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral.
Estimate: £6,500,000–8,500,000.
Monet’s dazzling view of the south coast of France, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral is one of his most accomplished and brilliantly hued compositions of the 1880s.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle.
Estimate: £7,500,000–9,500,000.
Painted in 1964, Le peintre et son modèle is a powerful example of the artist’s highly expressive work on a magnificent scale, on the subject that dominated his late work.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme au chapeau orange.
Estimate: £4,000,000–6,000,000.
Dating from March 1939 – a tumultuous period in Europe as well as in Picasso’s private life, Tête de femme au chapeau orange combines features of both of his muses from this time: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Diego.
Estimate: £2,500,000–3,500,000.
A portrait of the artist’s brother and primary model, Diego, this sculpture’s extraordinarily radical and expressive form is typical of Giacometti’s celebrated mature style.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Henri Matisse, Portrait of Mrs Hutchinson.
Estimate: £2,000,000–3,000,000.
The subject of this magnificent drawing is Mary Hutchinson, a British writer, member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as a model and socialite who commissioned the portrait from Matisse in 1936.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter im Freien vor der Staffelei (Gabriele Münter Painting Outdoors in Front of an Easel).
Estimate: £3,000,000–5,000,000.
A glorious celebration of colour and form, Gabriele Münter im Freien vor der Staffelei dates from a key period of development for Kandinsky and marks the artist’s definitive transition into the abstract.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Camille Pissarro, Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin.
Estimate: £3,000,000–5,000,000.
Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin, painted in 1897, is an outstanding work from one of the most important series of Pissarro’s urban views. The excitement and spectacle of the city at the fin-de-siècle are brilliantly evoked by the artist’s handling of paint and the elegant composition. The remarkable scope and variety of the Boulevard Montmartre series reveals Pissarro’s approach to the systematic exploration of a series of views of the same subject.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Claude Monet, Citrons sur une branche.
Estimate: £2,500,000–3,500,000.
Monet executed far fewer still-lifes than landscapes throughout his career, and it is interesting to note the artist's ability to adapt his technique, developed through painting en plein-air, to a different genre. He painted the present work with careful attention to the rendering of the effects of light, and created a dynamic composition by casting bright light from the right of the composition, which casts vivid purple shadows of the subject on the blue backdrop.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London
Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sale on 19 June features a wonderful selection of paintings, works on paper and sculpture by leading artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At the forefront of the sale is Pablo Picasso’s monumental yet tender portrayal of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter – Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant) – a masterpiece dating from his 'year of wonders' – 1932. The sale also includes works by Monet, Pissarro, Kandinsky, Giacometti and more. Click ahead to view the slideshow.
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June 2018 | London