Modigliani and Picasso Nudes, Tamayo Animals & More Modern Masterpieces

Modigliani and Picasso Nudes, Tamayo Animals & More Modern Masterpieces

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  Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couché (sur le côté gauche). Estimate upon request.

  Over 100 years after its creation, the power of Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) to amaze and startle remains as potent as it did in 1917. The largest painting of the artist’s career, this is the greatest work from the iconic series in which Amedeo Modigliani reinvented the nude for the Modern era. 
  
  
  
  
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  Pablo Picasso, Le Repos. Estimate $25,000,000–35,000,000.

  Le Repos is a stunning and intimate depiction of Picasso’s "golden muse," Marie-Thérèse Walter. It was in a series of paintings executed in 1932 that the artist introduced the young woman as an extraordinary new presence in both his life and his art. Picasso's sensual paintings of Marie-Thérèse reign supreme as the emblems of love, sex and desire in twentieth-century art.   
  
  
  
  
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  Claude Monet, . Estimate $18,000,000–25,000,000.

  A meditation in sky and water, trees and shrubs, reflection and suspension, Matinée sur la Seine embodies the purest aspect of Claude Monet’s dedication to light, nature and atmosphere. The tranquility of the scene suspends the composition from the trials and tribulations of contemporary French politics while looking forward to Modern art and absolute abstraction. 
  
  
  
  
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  Pablo Picasso, Femme au chien. Estimate $12,000,000–18,000,000.

  Painted six months before the breakdown of Picasso’s relationship with Françoise Gilot, Femme au chien provides a powerful commentary on this passionate and tumultuous time in the artist’s life. Having left behind the innocent, dream-like portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter, as well as the dramatic, distorted depictions of Dora Maar, Picasso found a new style for his portraits inspired by Françoise. A certain calm elegance carries throughout his depictions of her over the decade they were together. 
  
  
  
  
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  Pablo Picasso, Famille d'arlequin. Estimate $12,000,000–18,000,000.

  Famille d’arlequin is an exquisite example of Picasso’s celebrated Rose period when the artist was fascinated by harlequins, acrobats, actors and circus performers. His depictions of these characters and their families culminated in the monumental La Famille de saltimbanques. While throughout his work most of his harlequins are depicted as lonely, melancholy figures, the prevailing mood in Famille d’Arlequin is one of tenderness and satisfaction of domestic life. 
  
  
  
  
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  Edvard Munch, Sommernatt (Summer Night). Estimate $10,000,000–15,000,000.

  Sommernatt , depicting the abbreviated night skies of summer in Åsgårdstrand, encapsulates Edvard Munch's Expressionist opus while foreshadowing his growing interest in the landscape of his native Norway, which would dominate his oeuvre in the years that followed. Painted in 1902, the present work captures his use of bold coloration, sharp perspective and sinuous line.  
  
  
  
  
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  Pablo Picasso, Femme assise. Estimate $6,000,000–8,000,000.

  Comprised of a collection of fragmented Cubist shape and executed with characteristic pictorial flatness and a vivid color palette, Femme assise harkens back to Picasso’s earliest days. While varying in style and subject, the recurring motif of a nude figure seated in an armchair always served as a vehicle of expressing the palpable sexual tension between the painter and his model. 
  
  
  
  
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  Fernand Léger, Le Damier jaune. Estimate $6,000,000–8,000,000.

  Le Damier jaune is a daring composition from Fernand Léger's post-World War I production. Alight with color and references to daily life in early twentieth century Paris, the painting exemplifies the artist's new sense of focus and purpose after serving in World War I.  
  
  
  
  
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  Rufino Tamayo, Perro aullando a la Luna (Dog Howling at the Moon). Estimate $5,000,000–7,000,000.

  In a distinguished collection since 1993, Rufino Tamayo’s Perro aullando a la Luna is the last picture of a dog from the artist’s Animal series in private hands; all others reside in museum collections. Rich, vivid colors and the tense posture of the dog transform the canvas into visual poetry, imbued with political power. 
  
  
  
  
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    Picasso's Sleeping Muse
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    Powerful Tamayo Dog Painting, Last in Private Hands, Comes to Auction
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    Modigliani’s Greatest Nude Is Also His Largest Painting Ever