First Look: Impressionist & Modern Masters Tour to New York

Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1937.
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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). The artist's lover is shown in profile but with her features presented frontally in the style that he had pioneered in his earlier portraits of Marie-Thérèse. He employs a bold, primary palette and an emphatic handling of paint that mark this work out from the depictions of the early 1930s and chart Picasso's evolving relationship with his muse.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Alberto Giacometti, Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau. Estimate: £6,000,000–8,000,000.

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. Conceived circa 1949, it dates from a crucial period of the artist’s career in which he executed some of his most revered sculptures, including L'Homme au doigt, Femme Leoni and La Place.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Pablo Picasso, Le matador, 1970.
Estimate: £14,000,000–18,000,000.

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. This work will appear at auction for the first time on 28 February in London.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Claude Monet, La porte du jardin à Vétheuil.
Estimate: £2,000,000–3,000,000.

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. This picturesque location had been the site of some of Monet’s most successful Impressionist landscapes of the late 1870s, and continued to fascinate him well into his later career.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Umberto Boccioni, Testa + luce + ambiente.
Estimate: £5,500,000–7,500,000.

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. One of the defining art movements of the twentieth century, it demanded a complete break with the art of the past; the Futurists proclaimed a desire to 're-enter life' through a focus on speed, change and violence. In this revolutionary spirit, Boccioni announced: "We will break open the figure and enclose it in its environment" and Testa + luce + ambiente illustrates the height of his achievements in this respect.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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René Magritte, Le jockey perdu.
Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000.

Le jockey perdu is one of Magritte’s most compelling and iconic subjects. Inspired by the fifteenth-century Renaissance master Paolo Uccello, it exemplifies Magritte's atmospheric juxtaposition of objects and settings. This gouache comes directly from the celebrated Surrealist collection of William N. Copley who was a patron and friend of René Magritte, as well as a philanthropist and an artist in his own right.

Surrealist Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Salvador Dalí, Gradiva. Estimate: £1,200,000–1,800,000.

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.

Surrealist Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Salvador Dalí, Maison pour érotomane.
Estimate: £1,200,000–1,800,000.

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.

Surrealist Art Evening Sale
28 February 2018 | London

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Théo van Rysselberghe, Canal en Flandre.
Estimate: £500,000–700,000.

Painted in 1894 at the height of his artistic powers, Canal en Flandre is a striking example of Théo van Rysselberghe's mastery of the pointilliste technique. The Damme Canal in Belgium, rendered with a very modern sense of perspective, seems to vibrate with colour and life.

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
1 March 2018 | London

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Paul Gauguin, Tahitienne assise, £600,000–800,000.

Tahitienne assise is a direct study for two of Paul Gauguin’s most seminal Tahitian paintings: Femme de Tahiti (1891) and Parau api (1892). These masterpieces of the artist's first Tahitian sojourn, which are near identical in composition, feature two local women seated in close quarters and dressed in vibrant traditional costumes, against a background of brightly coloured planes suggestive of beach and sea.

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
1 March 2018 | London

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Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese.
Estimate: £2,000,000–3,000,000.

Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale, Attese, is an iconic work from the artist’s most celebrated series of slashed canvases. Executed in 1963, at the very height of the artist’s critically acclaimed career, the present work displays six vertical incisions that dramatically and violently perforate a smooth, seductive scarlet canvas.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
7 March 2018 | London

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David Hockney, Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool, Santa Monica, 1965.
Estimate: £6,000,000–8,000,000.

Executed in 1965, Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool, Santa Monica, originates from a series of works in which Hockney explored swimming pools. The most famous of these paintings A Bigger Splash, is part of the Tate Collection. He became fascinated with the subject whilst based in Los Angeles, and made numerous works that celebrated their vibrant Californian exuberance.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
7 March 2018 | London

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Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes, 1980.
Estimate: £1,200,000–1,800,000.

Effortlessly chic and dazzling, Diamond Dust Shoes is a quintessentially Warholian joy ride into his unmistakable Pop palette. Evoking glitzy nights of dancing in the Studio 54 club sound tracked by the sumptuous analogue synthesisers of Italo-Disco songs, Diamond Dust Shoes epitomises Warhol’s reliquary fetishisation of the glamour and gloss exhibited at the high end of American pop culture.

Contemporary Art Day Auction
7 March 2018 | London

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