‘Capturing the
Essence of Impressionism’
Exquisite
Museum-Quality Painting by Claude Monet
Estimated at £7.5 – 10 Million / HK$90 – 120 Million*
Estimated at £7.5 – 10 Million / HK$90 – 120 Million*
Sotheby’s London 3 February Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Claude Monet, L’Embarcadère, 1871, oil on canvas, est. £7.5 – 10 million
/ HK$90 – 120 million
Sotheby’s forthcoming London Impressionist
& Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 February 2015 will feature an
exceptional painting of a Dutch landscape by Claude Monet – appearing on
the market for the first time in a quarter of a century.
The
museum-quality work has been internationally exhibited at institutions such as
the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and provides the perfect embodiment of the
evolution of Impressionism.
L’Embarcadère was painted by Monet in Zaandam in Holland, where
the artist lived with his family for four months over the summer of 1871.
He produced a series of 25 pictures that explored several areas surrounding
Zaandam, focussing his attention upon the architectural motifs of the Dutch
landscape, canals, mills, and boats.
Within a strong compositional framework
and in a boldly inventive style, Monet’s use of colour and the areas of lively
brushwork represent his attempts to evoke the atmosphere of the scene, and he
includes subtle, but evocative, signifiers of the weather in the full sails of
the river-boats, glistening yellow painted houses and the cool relief of the
shaded river-bank.
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