Edvard
Munch, “Pikene på broen (Girls on the Bridge)”, Signed E. Munch and dated 1902,
Oil on canvas, 101 x 102.5 cm, Painted in 1902, Sold for $54,487,500
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Sotheby’s
New York Evening Sale of IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART totals $157.7 Million. Auction
was led by Edvard Munch’s stunning “Girls on the Bridge” from 1902, which achieved
$54.5 million. This work has twice set an auction record for the artist at
Sotheby’s – first in 1996, when it sold for $7.7 million, and again in 2008,
when it sold for $30.8 million. Auction’s result marks the second-highest auction
price for any work by Munch, following The Scream, which sold at Sotheby’s New
York in 2012 for $119.9 million – a world auction record at the time for any
work of art.
Emerging
after decades in a private American collection, Pablo Picasso’s large-scale
late
work
Le Peintre et son modèle brought $12.9 million. The work has descended through
the family of Joan Oestreich Kend since it was acquired by her father in 1968. Also
on offer from the Kend Collection was Auguste Rodin’s Penseur, petit modèle, which
sold to an Asian private collector for $1.8 million – well above its $1 million
high estimate. The work also descended through the family since it was acquired
in 1968.
Pablo
Picasso, “Le Peintre et son modele”, Signed Picasso (upper left) and dated
26.3.63.II (on the reverse), Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm, Painted on March 26,
1963, Sold for $12,906,000
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The
evening’s selection of sculpture was led by Pablo Picasso’s Tête de femme,
which sold
for
$8.5 million – above a high estimate of $8 million. Strong result for the
artist’s sculpture, following the blockbuster show Picasso Sculpture at The Museum
of Modern Art in New York. The model for the present work is the artist's lover
and muse from this period, Françoise Gilot, whose image has come to signify a
time of intense happiness for the artist
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Maurice de Vlaminck’s Fauve landscape Le Verger was another highlight of the
evening, selling for $7.6 million. Painted in 1906, only a few months after
Louis Vauxcelles derided the outrageouslycolorful canvases of Vlaminck, Matisse
and Braque at the Salon d’Automne as the rantings of ‘wild beasts’.
The
sale featured a number of rare and important abstract works from the early-20th
century: 5 bidders competed for László Moholy-Nagy’s EM 1 Telephonbild, a
masterwork of early conceptual art, which achieved $6.1 million – marking a new
auction record for the artist. One of two works on offer tonight that were recently
on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s acclaimed retrospective. František
Kupka’s La Forme du bleu from 1924 sold above its high estimate for $2.2 million.
Maurice
De Vlaminck, Le Verger, Signed Vlaminck (lower right), Oil on canvas, 23⅝ by
28⅞ in.; 60 by 73.3 cm, Painted in 1906, Estimate $7/10 million, Sold for $
7,550,000
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SOTHEBY’S İZLENİMCİ VE MODERN SANAT
MÜZAYEDESİ
EDVARD MUNCH’UN “GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE” TABLOSU
54.5 MİLYON DOLAR
Sotheby’s
New York’ta düzenlenen İzlenimci ve Modern Sanat Müzayedesinde yine çok önemli
sanatçılara ait eserler yer aldı. Avrupa ve Amerika’daki müzayede evlerinin
İzlenimci ve Modern Sanat kataloglarına bakmayı hep çok sevmişimdir. Zira
müzelerde bile görme imkanı bulamayacağınız eşsiz sanat eserlerinin en azından
fotoğraflarına uzun uzun bakma şansınız oluyor.
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Kasım 2016’da Sotheby’s New York’ta düzenlenen İzlenimci ve Modern Sanat
Müzayedesinde toplamda 157.7 milyon dolarlık satış gerçekleşirken, Edvard
Munch’un en önemli eserleri arasında gösterilen “GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE” tablosu
54.5 milyon dolara satıldı ve 2008 yılındaki müzayede fiyatından 20 milyon
dolar daha fazla bir rakama ulaştı. Sanatçının “GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE” tablosu 1996
yılında 7.7 milyon dolara, 2008 yılında ise 30.8 milyon dolara satılmıştı.
Munch’un ünlü “The Scream – Çığlık” isimli tablosu 2012 yılında, Sotheby’s New
York’ta 119.9 milyon dolara satılmıştı.
Aynı
müzayedede Pablo Picasso’nun büyük boyutlu “Le Peintre et son modele” isimli
çalışması 12.9 milyona; Pablo Picasso’nun “Tête de femme” eseri 8.5 milyon
dolara; Maurice de Vlaminck’in Fauve manzara tablosu “Le Verger” 7.6 milyon
dolara alıcı buldu.
Marc
Chagall, La Famille, Signed Marc Chagall (lower left); signed Marc Chagall (on
the reverse), Oil on canvas, 51 1/8 by 34 7/8 in., 130 by 88.6 cm, Painted in
1969-71, Sold for $ 4,400,000
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