Impressionist Masterpieces by Pissarro, Modigliani and more

Camille Pissarro. Le Pont Royal, après-midi temps couvert, 4è série. Estimate: €1,000,000–1,500,000.

In March 1903, Pissarro painted a series of works, to which the present painting belongs, from a room in the Hôtel du Quai Voltaire. Le Pont Royal, après-midi temps couvert, 4è série, is a moving testimony from the last of the Parisian series in which Pissarro had found new inspiration and definitively cemented his reputation as one of the great masters of Impressionism.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Kees Van Dongen, Les Amies. Estimate: €1,200,000–1,800,000.

Les Amies is emblematic of the works produced by the painter in the 1920s, a decade qualified as the "Cocktail Epoch" by commentators of the period.

An ode to the light-hearted and hedonistic atmosphere of Paris in this era, Les Amies embodies the artist's feminine ideal. In fact, critics of the period endowed him with the nickname "psychologist of the body" by critics of the time.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait inachevé de Paul Alexandre - recto etude de nu masculin - verso.
Estimate: €1,800,000–2,500,000.

Portrait inachevé de Paul Alexandre is one of the few paintings that Paul Alexandre commissioned from Modigliani between 1909 and 1913 in order to financially support the young artist. This young doctor and insightful collector was the sole source of financial support during Modigliani’s first years in Paris.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Kees van Dongen, Portrait de femme assise.
Estimate: €600,000–800,000.

This painting is emblematic of the works made by van Dongen in the 1920s, when he was at the height of his fame. Painted in a monumental format, the present portrait demonstrates the painter’s remarkable mastery of colour and material effects.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Fernand Léger, La carte postale.
Estimate: €1,000,000–1,500,000.

La carte postale belongs to an important period of transition in Léger's art, when he moved away from the highly abstract, mechanical vocabulary of the previous decades and embraced the image of a human figure, often combined with elements of the natural world.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Bernard Buffet, Clown. Estimate: €300,000–500,000.

Bernard Buffet started painting clowns in the fifties. Emblematic of his work, they are always colourful and identifiable because of the straight and dried lines.

Art Impressionniste et Moderne
23 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Edgar Degas, Femme en peignoir rouge se coiffant.
Estimate: € 400,000–600,000.

This beautiful composition by Edgar Degas, fom the collection of Adolphe and Elisabeth Friedmann, explores the eternal themes of beauty, youth and vanity.

Œuvres sur Papier
22 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Marc Chagall, La chèvre jaune. Estimate: €300,000–500,000.

Executed in 1966, this superb gouache evokes Chagall’s memories of his childhood and his Jewish heritage.

This powerful image of a figure wearing a Torah conveys the artist's constant concern to maintain his dual identity, both Russian and Jewish. This man thus becomes the emblem of an entire community as remembered by Chagall, which is also evoked in the depictions of the villagers and wooden houses of Vitebsk in the background

Œuvres sur Papier
22 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Marc Chagall, Le bouquet aux amoureux dans la fenêtre.
Estimate: €400,000–600,000.

Executed circa 1956-60, this gouache is a masterpiece from Chagall’s last great period. Never presented at auction, it illustrates the theme of the married couple, a leitmotif of his work.

The union of the levitating young couple is glorified by the presence of two stars in the sky which transform this celebration into a tribute to a mystic union.

Œuvres sur Papier
22 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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Pablo Picasso, Trois mains au gobelet. Estimate: €350,000–450,000.

Trois mains au gobelet dates from the summer of 1921 which Picasso spent at Fontainebleau. At this time, and during the three month sojourn at Fontainebleau, Picasso ardently, and almost exclusively, explored the theme of women at the fountain.

Œuvres sur Papier
22 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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René Magritte, Le civilisateur. Estimate: €400,000–600,000.

The present gouache was made in 1946 and is the third work by René Magritte to depict Jackie, the Pomeranian-Spitz that he owned and which became one of the emblematic figures of Magrittian art.

In this third work, of greater technical perfection than the paintings, the Pomeranian-Spitz is represented against the background of a forest in the form of a castle.

Œuvres sur Papier
22 March 2018 | 6:00pm CET | Paris

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