Finished with a total of 40,9 million dollars the auction of impressionist and modern art held in New York by Sotheby's.
Among the top lots of the auction the work Les Asperges de la lune di Max Ernst, conceived by the artist in 1935 and built between December 1972 and May 1973 which starting from a estimate of 1,2 / 1,8 million and reached a whopping 3,1 million.
The most interesting sales of the same auction were XNUMX works by Pablo Picasso including paintings, works on paper and ceramics that spanned the artist's prolific career. The group was led by the opera L’Atelier of 1956 retailed for $1.275.000. In the years following Matisse's death in November 1954, Picasso painted two series of Ateliers, also known as Interior landscapes. As an almost mourning modality, the artist produced several variations on the theme of the studio scenes that the two artists had shared throughout their careers.
1.155.000 dollars instead for the painting of Marc Chagall from 1980, Les Amoureux aux trois bouquets, a quintessential example of the artist's mastery of assembling a series of folkloric images into a dense and colorful composition. The painting contains some of the most crucial elements in the artist's pictorial iconography: symbols of his origins, bouquets of flowers and landscapes that evoke the villages of his childhood home in Belarus.
Also Paul Signac with the painting The Pont de Suresnes (waterfront landscape) reached 1,155.000. A wonderful example of the loose brushwork of the artist's early manner, in which he embraced the stylistic and compositional strategies of the great Impressionists. The broad brushstrokes and vibrant colors illustrate his desire to capture the play of light and color in the landscape, suggesting the landscapes to come as, together with Georges Seurat, he fully developed the pointillist style.
Record instead for the Belgian artist Georges Morren with the painting À harmony of 1891, the artist's most important impressionist canvas, which fetched 915 dollars on an estimate of 400/600.
Two extraordinary examples of the production of Auguste Herbin of 1907 were awarded with a value above the estimate. Painted during the artist's stay in Corsica, Mountain route in racing, reached 855 thousand dollars.
