Tag: London

Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands, 1853–1890) Sunflowers oil on canvas 92.2 × 73 cm (36.3 × 29 in) Painted in 1888 Collection of National Gallery, London The secret behind the painting Van Gogh's Sunflowers A series of 6 paintings produced in 1888 and 1889, the Sunflowers were intended to decorate Gauguin's room, which Van Gogh was ...

Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands, 1853-1890) Naaiende vrouw (Woman Sewing) gouache, watercolour and black and white chalk on paper 23 ¾ x 17 ½ in. (60.1 x 44.6 cm.) Executed in Etten in October - November 1881 Estimate GBP 2,000,000 – GBP 3,000,000 Price Realised GBP 2,460,000 Christie's London, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

Francis Bacon (Ireland/England, 1909-1992) Landscape near Malabata, Tangier titled and dated ‘Landscape near Malabata, Tangier 1963’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 78 x 57in. (198.1 x 144.8cm.) Painted in 1963 Estimate GBP 15,000,000 – GBP 20,000,000 Price Realised GBP 19,630,000 Christie's London, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

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

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 ...

Jan van Eyck (Netherland, c.1390-1441) The Arnolfini Portrait (Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife) oil on oak panel 82.2 x 60 cm. (32.3 x 23.6 in.) Painted in 1434 Collection of National Gallery, London In this painting, a couple are holding hands in the bedroom of a wealthy bourgeois interior, as evidenced by the ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat (America, 1960-1988) Untitled (Pablo Picasso) acrylic and oil stick on metal 35 5/8 x 35 5/8in. (90.5 x 90.5cm.) Executed in 1984 Price Realised GBP 6,462,500 at Christie's London, 28 June 2023 Included in the 2017-2018 retrospective Basquiat: Boom for Real at the Barbican Gallery, London, Untitled (Pablo Picasso) (1984) is a bold tribute from one twentieth-century ...