A $450M art collection is poised to break Van Gogh and Cézanne’s auction records
The 12 works are valued at about $450 million, and Sotheby’s says van Gogh and Cézanne could set new auction records.
- On Wednesday, Sotheby's unveiled five Impressionist masterpieces from the Blaquier-Arrieta collection in London, ahead of a November New York auction where the 12-piece collection is expected to fetch around $450 million.
- Assembled by the late Argentine heiress Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her husband Carlos Pedro Blaquier, the collection remained private at their family estate, La Biznaga, until their children released it for sale.
- Works by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro are included; the rare Van Gogh is estimated at $180 million and the Cezanne at $120 million.
- Before the New York auction, the collection will tour Taipei, Hong Kong, and Paris; Helena Newman, Sotheby's chairman of Impressionist and Modern art, says there is "a return to really established, tried and tested works."
- The family is retaining important Latin American holdings while releasing the Impressionist core, a move Sotheby's characterizes as part of a generational shift in art ownership as major collections pass to new owners.
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New York, Sep 30 (EFE).- Sotheby’s will be auctioning next November in New York twelve works by key artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, such as Van Gogh, Monet or Cézanne, that have not been shown to the public in decades and with which the house expects to obtain 450 million dollars. According to a statement, the auction [...] The entry Sotheby’s auction works Impressionist not seen in decades for 450 million dollars was first publ…
'The stuff of legend': Unseen works of van Gogh and Cézanne from a private collection are going up for auction at $450 million
The paintings come from a collection amassed by the late Argentine art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her sugar magnate husband, Carlos Pedro Blaquier, and are being sold by their children.
Sotheby’s Lands the $450 Million Blaquier Collection, Led by a $180M Van Gogh
'Châtaignier en fleurs roses et blanches' leads a dozen Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by Cézanne, Renoir, Degas and their peers owned by the Argentine sugar dynasty—a consignment long coveted by the major houses.
Auction house Sotheby’s in New York will auction a rare work by Vincent van Gogh on November 18. It is the painting Châtaigniers en fleurs (Chestnut Trees in Bloom) from May 1890.
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