London Impressionist & Modern Art Highlights

London Impressionist & Modern Art Highlights

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  Joan Miró, Femme et oiseaux. Estimate on request.

  Femme et oiseaux is the eighth composition in Miro's Constellations – a series comprising twenty-three paintings that he produced in under two years, from January 1940 to September 1941. The painting is a mesmerising example of the Miró's celebrated lyricism and freedom of expression: the ground has been brushed, scraped, polished, moistened and rubbed, creating the gradated pockets of light and dark that convey the celestial boundlessness in which the objects float.
  
  

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  Alberto Giacometti, Grande figure.
  Estimate: £15,000,000–25,000,000

  The striking Grande figure, 1947, is cast in bronze with gold patina and stands at 130cm tall. After Giacometti's return to Paris from his native Switzerland in 1945, he developed what would come to be seen as the eponymous themes of his work: the walking man, the bust, and the standing woman.
  
  

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  Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit weissen Linien (Painting with White Lines). Estimate on request.

  Produced in 1913, Bild mit weissen Linien represents an important period in Kandinsky's career during which he perfected his own lyrical form of abstraction. During this period, Kandinsky took his cue from the language of musical composition – and determined that every colour corresponded with a particular emotion or 'sound'.
  
  

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  Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau– Landschaft mit grünem Haus (Murnau – Landscape with Green House). Estimate: £15,000,000–25,000,000.

  A blazing celebration of colour, Kandinsky's Expressionist painting Landschaft mit grünem Haus, painted in 1909, is a major early work which captures the moment of transition in the artist’s career when he is on the cusp of moving from figuration to abstraction.
  
  

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  Théo van Rysselberghe, L'Escaut en amont d’Anvers, le soir or Voiliers sur l'Escaut.
  Estimate: £7,000,000–10,000,000.

  Visually dazzling, L’Escaut en amont d’Anvers, le soir exhibits the artist's complete mastery of the pointilliste technique. Painted in 1892 was executed at the height of van Ryssleberghe's artistic powers, and it is further enhanced by the artist's original painted frame. 
  
  

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  Pablo Picasso, Femme accroupie.
  Estimate: £6,500,000–8,500,000.

  Vividly coloured and conceived on an impressive scale, Femme accroupie is a majestic image of the final love of the artist's life, Jacqueline Roque.
  
  

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  Paul Klee, Salon Tunisien (Traffic on the Boulevard Tunis). Estimate: £1,500,000–2,000,000.

  Inspired by one of the most momentous journeys of the Klee's life, Salon Tunisien was executed in 1918, a few years after he had travelled to Tunisia. The brilliant, exotic colour of Tunis, its bustling streets and dazzling light had a transformative effect on Klee, and marked the beginning of a new direction in modern art. 
  
  

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    Kandinsky — An Expressionist Masterpiece
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    Miró – Painted Poetry
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    Kandinsky — A Visual Symphony
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    Giacometti – Master of Form
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    Mary and George Bloch: A Collection 40 Years in the Making