Painted in Boisgeloup on 30 October 1932
Important works by Picasso and Mondrian at Christie’s On May 11th, 2021, Christie’s will auction Pablo Picasso’s ‘Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)’ and Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue, 1927’.
April 9th, 2021, source: Christie’s
Pablo Picasso’s Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse), 30 October 1932
Estimate in the region of $55 million.
One of the extraordinary series of iconic portraits that Picasso painted of his golden-haired muse during this landmark year, this monumental work is among the most stately and impressive depictions of Marie-Thérèse that the artist painted.
Painted in Boisgeloup on 30 October 1932, “Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)” crowns this great series of 1932 masterpieces. By this time, Marie-Thérèse had risen to ascendance in every area of her lover’s output. In the present work, she has claimed absolute command, an idolized muse now reigning deity-like over the artist and his creation.
Piet Mondrian’s Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue, 1927
Estimate on request; in the region of US$25M
Painted in 1927
Throughout the 1920’s, Mondrian pioneered and explored Neo-Plasticism, developing and refining the principles of abstract art by employing only the fundamental elements of painting. Dating to the latter part of the decade, “Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue” encapsulates the spirit of Mondrian’s “classical period” at which point he attained a peak level of purity and balance in his paintings.
Considered today as fundamental statements in the history of Modern Art, Mondrian’s Neo-Plastic paintings from the 1920’s were largely ignored by his contemporaries. Created in his legendary rue du Départ studio in Paris where he lived and painted until 1936—completely immersed in the world of Neo-Plasticism— “Composition: No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue” was first shown, along with 17 other works, in a small exhibition organized by the Dutch painters association, Parisian Hollandsche Schildersvereeniging.
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