Evening Sale
Christie's New York
7 PM, November 11, 2019
Sale 17658
Lot 18A, "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space," by Umberto Boccioni, 46 inches high, bronze cast numbered 4 of 8 conceived in 1913 and executed in 1972
By
Carter B. Horsley
The November 11, 2019 evening auction of Impressionist and Modern at Christie's New York is highlighted by a celebrated Boccioni bronze, an excellemt Picasso oil of a woman in an armchair, a great Gauguin, and good works by Monet, Derain, Kirchner, de Lempcka, Pissarro and Magritte.
Lot 18A is a 48-inch-tall bronze by Umberto Bocconi (1882-1916) was conceived in 1913 and executed in 1972 in an edition of 10 of which this example is numbered 4.
The catalogue notes that the original sculpture was in plaster and is located at the Museo d'arte moderna in Sao Paulo. Two casts from 1931 are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museo del Novecento in Milan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at a 1949 cast and Count Paolo Marinotti has a 1951 cast. A 1963 cast is at the Museo d'arte moderna in Sao Paolo.
This lot has an estimate of $3,800,000 to $4,500,000. It sold for $16,165,000.
The November 11, 2019 evening auction of Impressionist and Modern at Christie's New York is highlighted by a celebrated Boccioni bronze, an excellemt Picasso oil of a woman in an armchair, a great Gauguin, and good works by Monet, Derain, Kirchner, de Lempcka, Pissarro and Magritte.
Lot 18A is a 48-inch-tall bronze by Umberto Bocconi (1882-1916) was conceived in 1913 and executed in 1972 in an edition of 10 of which this example is numbered 4.
The catalogue notes that the original sculpture was in plaster and is located at the Museo d'arte moderna in Sao Paulo. Two casts from 1931 are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museo del Novecento in Milan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at a 1949 cast and Count Paolo Marinotti has a 1951 cast. A 1963 cast is at the Museo d'arte moderna in Sao Paolo.
This lot has an estimate of $3,800,000 to $4,500,000. It sold for $16,165,000.
Lot 23, "Woman in an armchair (Francoise)," by Pablo Picasso, oil on canvas, 39 1/2 by 32 inches, 1949
Lot 23A is a
good oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) entitled "Woman in an
armchair (Francoise)." It measures 39 1/2 by 32 inches and was
painted in 1949. It once belonged to Phyllis B. Lambert.
The lot is the cover illustration of the catalogue and has an estimate of $12,000,000 to $18,000,000. It sold for $13,327,500.
The lot is the cover illustration of the catalogue and has an estimate of $12,000,000 to $18,000,000. It sold for $13,327,500.
Lot 26A, "Bords de riviere," by Andre Derain, oil on canvas, 15 1/8 by 18 1/8, 1905
Lot
26A is a fine Fauve oil on canvas by Andre Derain (1880-1954).
Entitled 'Bords de riviere," it measures 15 1/8 by 18 1/8 inches and
was painted in 1905, four years after the artist had visited Chatou
with Vlaminck. When he worked on this painting, Derain, according to
the catalogue, "was already experimenting with often tightly cropped
compositions and novel viewpoints, taking this traditional
Impressionist subject matter and depicting it in a radically new
way." "Like Vlaminck he worked with impulsive spontaneity,
applying daubs and slabs of paint directly, using this to structure his
compositons rather than traditional modes of perspective or tonal
modelling." Matisse visited the artists and was "stunned" by
their work
The lot has an estimate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. It sold for $4,715,000.
Lot 13A, "Anemones au mirroir noir," by Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 26 1/4 by 21 1/4 inches, 1919
Lot 50A, "Iris," by Claude Monet, oil on canvas, 39 1/8 by 34 1/2 inches, 1925
The lot has an estimate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. It sold for $4,715,000.
Lot 13A, "Anemones au mirroir noir," by Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 26 1/4 by 21 1/4 inches, 1919
Lot 13A is a great still life
of a vase with flowers by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). An oil on
canvas, it measures 26 1/4 by 21 1/4 inches and was painted in
1919. It is property of the James and Marilyn Alsdorf
Collection. It has been exhibited at the Phillips Memorial
Gallery, the Carnegie Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
the Fogg Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The lot has an estimate of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. It sold for $5,269,000.
The lot has an estimate of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. It sold for $5,269,000.
Lot 50A, "Iris," by Claude Monet, oil on canvas, 39 1/8 by 34 1/2 inches, 1925
Lot 50A
is a sujperb study of Iris in his garden by Claude Monet
1840-1926). An oil on canvas, it measures 39 1/8 by 34 12 inches
and was painted in 1925.
It has
an estimate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. It sold for $3,000,000.
Although the Cezanne and
Mondrian are major works, some connoisseurs may be much more fascinated
by a very dramatic work by Paul Gauguin, Lot 17, "Les Oies,"
which depicts three geese viewed by a woman who is only visible
in her reflection in the water. This 23 ½-by-28 ¾-inch
oil on canvas, is exceeding vibrant and very unusual. Painted
in 1889, it has an estimate at its auction in 2003 of $1,000,000 to
$1,500,000. It
sold for $1,127,500. At this auction, it has an estimate of $2,500,000
to $3,500,000. It was passed at
$1,700,000. It is quite an astounding work that has
the fiery colors of Nolde, the cosmic visions of Turner and the
pyrotechnics of the Fauves.
This work, the 2003 catalogue maintains, "is one of the most haunting
and abstract of Gauguin's entire career." "It was in
Brittany that Gauguin finally broke free of earlier tradition
and emerged as an intensely original modern master. With its
unconventional
viewpoint and brilliant swirls of anti-naturalistic color, the
present painting vividly illustrates this development...."
This auction's catalogue provides
the following commentary:
Lot 40A, "Reitende Artilleristen," by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, oil on canvas, 45 1/2 inches square, 1915
Lot 40A is an excellent equestrian
oil on canvas by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) that is entitled
"Reitende Artilleristen." It was painted in 1915. It has
been widely exhibited and written about. It has an estimate of
$3,000,000 to $4,000,000. It
sold for $4,215,000.
"Lot 33A, "Beatrice Hastings assise," by Amedeo Modigliani, oil on cradled board, 29 1/8 by 19 3/8 inches, 1915
Lot
33A is an oil cradled on board by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
entitled "Beatrice Hastings assise." It measures 29 1/8 by 18 3/8
inches and was painted in 1915.
It has an estimate of $6,000,000 to $8,000,000. It sold for $4,815,000.
The catalogue entry provides the following commentary:
"An imaginative writer and irrepressively free spirit, a 'new' woman living at the cutting edge of early 20th Century modernity, Beatrice Hastings became the first and through the force of her remarkable personality, the most galvanizing and potently catalytic of the muses who presided over Modigliani's life and work.
"...Beatrice Hastings is the pen name that Emily Alice Beatrice Haigh, born in London, 1879, and raised in South Africa, assumed when she became a writer - and claimed to have once been married to a Cape Town prize fighter named Hastings. In April, 1914 she arrived in Paris on assignment to author a column about the city for the influential London literary journal, The New Age, whose editor, A. R. Orage, had been her lover. Beatrice soon became the subject of gossip among artists and writers in Montparnasse and Montmartre; Picasso's friend, the poet Max Jacob described her as "a great English poet - drunken, musical (a pianist), bohemian, elegant, dressed in the manner of the Transvaal and surrounded by a gang of bandits on the fringe of the arts....She was rumored to cut notches in the headboard of her bed to keep tally of her numerous occasional lovers."
It has an estimate of $6,000,000 to $8,000,000. It sold for $4,815,000.
The catalogue entry provides the following commentary:
"An imaginative writer and irrepressively free spirit, a 'new' woman living at the cutting edge of early 20th Century modernity, Beatrice Hastings became the first and through the force of her remarkable personality, the most galvanizing and potently catalytic of the muses who presided over Modigliani's life and work.
"...Beatrice Hastings is the pen name that Emily Alice Beatrice Haigh, born in London, 1879, and raised in South Africa, assumed when she became a writer - and claimed to have once been married to a Cape Town prize fighter named Hastings. In April, 1914 she arrived in Paris on assignment to author a column about the city for the influential London literary journal, The New Age, whose editor, A. R. Orage, had been her lover. Beatrice soon became the subject of gossip among artists and writers in Montparnasse and Montmartre; Picasso's friend, the poet Max Jacob described her as "a great English poet - drunken, musical (a pianist), bohemian, elegant, dressed in the manner of the Transvaal and surrounded by a gang of bandits on the fringe of the arts....She was rumored to cut notches in the headboard of her bed to keep tally of her numerous occasional lovers."
Lot
35A, "Les Jeunes Filles," by Tamara de Lempicka, oil on panel, 13 3/4
by 10 3/8 inches, 1930
Lot 351, "Les Jeunes Filles,"
is a very fine, small oil on panel by Tamara de Lempicka
(1898-1980). It measures 13 3/4 by 10 3/8 inches and was painted
in 1930. It was the cover illustration for the catalogue of her
2018 exhibition at the Palacio de Gaviria in Madrid.
It has stylized ribbon-like tresses and the upper right has a small stylized cityscape. It has an estimate of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. It sold for $5,269,000.
It has stylized ribbon-like tresses and the upper right has a small stylized cityscape. It has an estimate of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. It sold for $5,269,000.
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