Two Unseen Monet Paintings to Be Sold in Paris: Auction House
- Sotheby's unveiled the sale of Claude Monet's "Iris" at its Paris headquarters, valuing the painting at €22 million to €30 million. This represents "the highest estimate ever given for a painting offered at auction in France."
- The painting comes from the private collection of Jeanne Schlumberger , an heir to the Schlumberger oil company who assembled one of France's most important collections of Impressionist and Modern art.
- Executed in 1924-25, the 160cm by 180cm canvas is the largest from Monet's "Iris" series to reach the market. The October 22 sale also includes "Saule Pleureur," valued at €9 million to €12 million.
- Sotheby's senior international specialist Thomas Bompard noted that Jeanne recognized the radical quality of Monet's late works. "She knew when she bought those two extraordinary paintings that these kinds of Monets were not at all fashionable," Bompard says.
- Paris exhibitions "Monet, Painting Time" and "Stories of Landscapes, from Monet to Hockney" commemorate the centenary of Monet's death on December 5, 1926. The collection will tour Hong Kong and New York before the October 22 auction.
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Milan, 17 sets. (askanews) - Never exposed to the public, never painted, preserved on the original canvases for almost a century. Two masterpieces by Claude Monet, left for decades away from the eyes of the world, are now at auction in Paris. They are "Iris" and "Saule pleureur," part of the collection of the Schlumberger family that Sotheby's will sell on October 22. The most awaited piece is "Iris," a large canvas painted by Monet in the last …
The tables were never presented in public, and one of them has an estimated value of up to 30 million euros
A monumental painting by Claude Monet that had never been displayed in public could reach up to 30 million euros (about R$ 177 million) at an auction at Sotheby's in Paris. The work, called "Iris", was kept in the residence of the French family Schlumberger and will be put on sale for the first time along with 27 other pieces of the collection, on October 22.
Two unseen Monet paintings to be sold in Paris: auction house
"Iris", a large painting Monet completed toward the end of his life, has been valued at 22 million to 30 million euros ($25-34 million), which represents "the highest estimate ever given for a painting offered at auction in France", Sotheby's said as it unveiled the sale at its Paris headquarters. It has never left the Schlumberger family's home in Paris after being acquired by Jeanne Schlumberger (1889–1983), who was described as "a brilliant …
Paris, 17 Sep (EFE).- The Sotheby?s auction house in Paris announced on Thursday the sale of 'Iris',...
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