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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
Bui Xuan Phai (Vietnam, 1920-1988) Young Vietnamese woman on horseback signed upper right and dated 78, against paper marked “Ngua horse” ink, pencil and watercolour on paper 6 x 9.8 cm. Ngựa nội, in Vietnamese purebred, is the native horse breed of Vietnam. Estimate: EUR 1000-1200 On display and sale at Interencheres, 19 March 2024
A street in Bac Ninh, Vietnam named after artist Hoang Tich Chu. Hoàng Tích Chù (1912-2003), born in Phù Lưu village, Từ Sơn town, Bắc Ninh Province, known for Vietnamese lacquer; a former director of Vietnamese Fine Arts Institute. In 2000, he was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for his art and literature achievements.
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 ...
Vietnamese Ly-Tran Jar, Collection of Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Dai Fu (16th Century) Birds and Flowers by the Pond Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk 176 x 102 cm. (69 ¼ x 40 1⁄8 in.) Signed, with one seal of the artist Price Realised HKD 403,200 at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 December 2023
