Stars of Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Arrive in Zürich

Stars of Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Arrive in Zürich

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  Joan Miró, Peinture.
  Estimate: £8,000,000–12,000,000.

  Dating from June 1933, Peinture demonstrates Miró's experimentation with working on a large scale, after a period which the artist called his "assassination of painting". The present oil has its origin in a collage executed on 6th February which Miró kept in his own collection and donated to the Fundació Joan Miró in 1976. The painting itself was once in the collection of Miró’s friend Alexander Calder.
  
  Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
  19 June | London
  

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  Alberto Giacometti, Le Chat, cast in 1955.
  Estimate upon request.

  With its body in perfect alignment, Alberto Giacometti's Le Chat is one of the most recognisable 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 | London
  

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  Alexej von Jawlensky, Abstrakter Kopf: Klarheit.
  Estimate: £500,000–700,000.

  Jawlensky's use of anonymous heads to express the power of colour and line reflects  his belief that: "human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover’s passion."
  
  Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
  19 June | London
  

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  © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018

  Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle, 1964.
  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.
  
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  19 June | London
  

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  © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018

  Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme au chapeau orange, 1939.
  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 | London
  

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  August Macke, Begrüssung (Greeting). Estimate: £400,000–600,000.

  Begrüssung belongs to a group of watercolours and oils Macke created in 1913, depicting figures standing or strolling in the park, and reflects a major theme in Macke’s art – city-dwellers in green spaces, bringing the natural world into an urban environment. In 1913 Macke wrote: “The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence”, and the present watercolour is wonderful example of this principle.
  
  Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
  19 June | London
  

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  Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Diego, 1957.
  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.
  
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  19 June | London
  

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  Emil Nolde, Mohn (Poppies).
  Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000.

  It was in his flower paintings, such as Mohn, that Nolde sought to capture the drama of untamed nature, using a Fauve-like palette and applying paint to the entire surface in quick, expressive brushstrokes.
  
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  19 June | London
  

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  Jacques Lipchitz, Arlequin à l'accordéon.
  Estimate: £500,000–700,000.

  After arriving in Paris from his native Lithuania in 1909, Jacques Lipchitz became the leading Cubist sculptor, after surrounding himself with key figures of the movement, such as Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. Belonging to a series of works depicting musicians and varying instruments, the present work is particularly notable for its accordion: the formal similarities between an accordion that is being played and that of the prominent Cubist trope of an open fan are immediately evident.
  
  Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
  20 June | London
  

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  Camille Pissarro, Paysannes ramassant des herbes, Eragny.
  Estimate: £400,000–600,000.

  Dating from 1886, Paysannes ramassant des herbes, Eragny was painted in Eragny, a small village on the banks of the river Epte. Pissarro and his family moved to Eragny, situated some three kilometres from Gisors, in the spring of 1884. In 1892 Pissarro, with the financial help of Claude Monet who lived in the neighbouring Giverny, purchased the house his family had been renting for the previous eight years; the house exists to this day, in a street named after the artist.
  
  Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
  20 June | London
  

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  Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (Ant 5), 1962.
  Estimate £5,500,000–7,500,000.

  A picture of weightless exaltation – the dawning of Klein’s ‘blue epoch’ – Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 5) is an exquisite, rare instance of Yves Klein’s series of body paintings, the Anthropométries.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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  Jean-Michael Basquiat, Untitled, 1982.
  Estimate £1,500,000–2,000,000.

  Searing in its electric immediacy, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled is masterful example of this artist’s instinctive draughtsmanship that is deeply imbued with a sense of self-portraiture. The present work was created during a year of unprecedented success for the twenty-two year old prodigy: in 1982 Basquiat had his first solo exhibitions with Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles, Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, and other galleries in New York and Rotterdam.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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  Francis Bacon, Study of a Figure, 1954.
  Estimate £3,000,000–4,000,000.

  This remarkable painting is a recent Bacon discovery, given that for more than sixty years it remained in private collections, lost to public view until it was exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco in 2016.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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  Andy Warhol, Marilyn (Reversal), 1979-86.
  Estimate £1,200,000–1,800,000.

  In Marilyn (Reversal), the viewer confronts an uncanny, prismatic and postmodern representation of the most iconic image in Andy Warhol’s visual lexicon. Conceived as a re-reading of his best-known Pop paintings at the suggestion of his dealer Bruno Bischofberger, the Reversal series of 1979 to 1986 joins Warhol’s 1980 memoir POPism: The Warhol Sixties and the Andy Warhol’s TV series as part of the artist’s unprecedentedly reflexive and experimental later period.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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  Keith Haring, August 15, 1983.
  Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000.

  Demonstrating Haring’s unique visual lexicon via a cacophony of line and symbol, August 15 has not been seen in public since 1984.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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  Roy Lichtenstein, Cubist Still Life, 1974.
  Estimate: £1,800,000–2,500,000.

  Forming part of Lichtenstein’s iconic Cubist Still Life paintings created between 1973 and 1975, the present work is one of only two from this group of eleven works in which Lichtenstein used silver paint mixed with sand taken from the beach near his studio in Southampton, Long Island.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London
  

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