Paul Gauguin: Jeune Tahitienne, c.1890-93
Sold for $11,282,500
Picasso leads Sotheby’s $170 million sale On May 3rd 2011, Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art achieved $170,478,000. Pablo Picasso’s ‘Femmes lisant (Deux personnages)’ was sold for $21,362,500 and auction records were established for a painting by Paul Delvaux and for a sculpture by Paul Gauguin]]>
May 3rd 2011, source: Sotheby’s
‘Femmes lisant (Deux personnages)’ was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1934. The very painterly work depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter –the artist’s lover during the 1930s– reading with her sister. The canvas was sold to a private collector for $21,362,500.
Other works by Picasso also did well at the sale. ‘Couple à la guitare’ is a late and large work that sold for $9,602,500. The surrealist ‘Femme’ achieved $7,922,500 and ‘Fillette aux nattes et au chapeau vert’, a portrait of the artist’s daughter, went for $5,906,500.
Another star of the sale was Paul Gauguin’s ‘Jeune tahitienne’, one of the finest sculptures by the artist still in private hands. The work sold for $11,282,500, an auction record for a sculpture by the artist. The same price was achieved for Alexej von Jawlensky’s vibrant ‘Frau mit grünem Fächer (Woman with a green fan)’.
The auction also featured an interesting group of Surrealist paintings, led by Paul Delvaux’s ‘Les Cariatides’, a large 1946 painting sold for $9,042,500. The impressionist section was highlighted by an early landscape by Claude Monet, ‘La Seine à Argenteuil’, sold for $6,242,500.
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