Category: Old Masters

David Hockney (England, B. 1937) California acrylic on canvas 66 1⁄8 x 78 ¼in. (168 x 198.8cm.) Painted in 1965 Price Realised GBP 18,710,000 Christie's London, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

Lucian Freud (German/England, 1922-2011) Kai oil on canvas 20 1⁄8 x 24 ¼ in. (51 x 61.5 cm.) Painted in 1991-1992 Estimate GBP 4,000,000 – GBP 6,000,000 Price Realised GBP 4,638,000 Christie's London, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

Joan Miró (Italy, 1893-1983) L'échelle de l'évasion (The Escape Ladder) signed 'Miró' (centre left) oil on burlap 28 7⁄8 x 21 3⁄8 in. (73.5 x 54.3 cm.) Painted in December 1939 Estimate GBP 2,700,000 – GBP 3,500,000 Price Realised GBP 3,428,000 Christie's London, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) Matinée sur la Seine, temps net signed and dated 'Claude Monet 97' (lower left) oil on canvas 32 1⁄8 x 36 3⁄8 in. (81.6 x 92.4 cm.) Painted in Giverny in 1897 Estimate GBP 12,000,000 – GBP 18,000,000 Provenance Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 27 ...

Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989) The Birth of Liquid Anguish (Naissance des angoisses liquides) signed and dated ‘Gala Salvador. Dali 1932’ (lower left) oil on canvas 21 ½ x 15 in. (54.5 x 38 cm.) Painted in 1932 Estimate GBP 1,600,000 – GBP 2,400,000 Christie's London, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, 7 March 2024 ...

René Magritte (Belgium, 1898–1967) L'ami intime signed ‘Magritte’ (lower left) oil on canvas 28 5⁄8 x 25 ½ in. (72.6 x 64.9 cm.) Painted in January - February 1958 Estimate GBP 30,000,000 – GBP 50,000,000 Christie's London, The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale, 7 March 2024 Provenance Galerie Alexander Iolas, Paris & New York, ...

One of the great innovators, the most influential and best-loved modernists of European abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky (Russia/France, 1866–1944) broke new ground in painting during the first decades of the 20th century. In his influential treatise, On the spiritual in art, published in 1911, he wrote about art’s potential to ‘stand alone’, with imagery independent of ...

Claude Monet's 'Le bassin aux nymphéas' fetched USD 74,010,000 during an exceptional evening sale at Christie's New York, 9 November 2023. Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) Le bassin aux nymphéas stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower right); stamped again with signature ‘Claude Monet’ (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse) oil on canvas 100.1 x 200.6 ...

The Scream — One of the world’s most famous artworks, a universal symbol of anxiety and it even has its own emoji. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) The Scream unsigned oil, tempera, pastel and crayon on cardboard 91 × 73.5 cm. (36 × 28.9 in.) painted in 1910? Collection of Munch Museum Munch's challenge in this painting is to depict a deafening ...

Gaston Roullet (France, 1847-1925) Village de Dong Ba, faubourg de Hue (Annam - 1885) signed 'Gaston Roullet' and titled (lower left) oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.) Painted in 1885 Gaston Roullet, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885, was the first official Navy ...