![]() “ I've always loved Alice Neel … Jerry bought this painting in 1985, way before many people were talking about Alice. “We really feel that this niche collection foreshadows what we see in market trends today, and that is a critical and commercial reevaluation of female artists, artists of color, and other categories in collecting groups and artists groups that Jerry was in way before they became in vogue, that Alice Neel is a great example," said Sara Friedlander, Deputy Chairman, Post-War and Contemporary Art. The painting is expected to sell for between $1.2 million and $1.8 million. ![]() My gaze was drawn especially to Neel’s unrivaled double portrait of The De Vegh Twins (1975), swooning over the mingling of purples and reds and the nuances of color adding complexity to the girls’ dark hair. My 13-year-old son Michael lingered over many of the master works, marveling at the sculptural brushstrokes popping from Kazuo Shiraga’s large-scale thunderous abstract 1988 painting Hoshōkai (Lop Nur). This collection alone, hung in a jaw-dropping maximalist style mimicking how Fineberg displayed the works in his Boston apartment, is museum worthy and indicative of a true visionary. We traverse A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection, beginning with a divine 1923 Man Ray painting of the muse of Modernity, Kiki de Montparnasse, and move forward with far-reaching works by artists of color, women artists, and artists who Fineberg recognized well ahead of the markets, such as Barkley Hendricks, Beauford Delaney, Ruth Asawa, Alma Thomas, and Alice Neel. So he's painting on weekends and nights and mornings and he painted all of these things from his imagination,” Carter explained.ĪLICE NEEL (1900-1984) 'The De Vegh Twins' signed and dated 'NEEL '75' (lower right) oil on canvas. This was someone who never left Paris and he was a customs clerk. “He began painting these monumental jungle scenes. It might be the rarest painting (we sell) all year.” Tucked away in a gallery designed to replicate the size of Henri Rousseau’s cozy studio, Carter guided us through the process of creating the sublime Les Flamants (1910), which is expected to sell for between $20 million and $30 million as the gem of Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale.Ĭarter described the painting, which is poised to shatter Rousseau’s record of $4.4 million set three decades ago at Christie’s London, as “the rarest painting in the building, and this is the rarest painting we have sold all season. HENRI 'LE DOUANIER' ROUSSEAU (1844-1910)Les Flamantsoil on canvas44.7/8 x 63.1/4 in. … He's on the cusp of fame and money and alcohol and all these things that we've heard of him, but at this moment is just (painting) for himself.” “He's coming off the harshest, worst years of his life. “He is fascinated with symbolism, with Art Nouveau,” said Carter. ![]() Max Carter, Vice Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, described Orestes as “The most important black and white painting to appear at auction in 20 years.” ![]() The enamel and paper collage on panel boasts an estimate in excess of $25 million. Hints of pink and ochre peek out of the black and white shapes and lines, underscoring the range of emotion. Newhouse Collection before we turn our gaze to Willem de Kooning’s monochromatic and arresting Orestes (1947). We’re met with an explosion of bold color in L'Arlésienne, another Picasso executed five years later and featured among the six Modern and Post-War paintings the Masterpieces from the media mogul S.I. request in excess of $25,000,000 Chrsitie's WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)Orestesenamel and paper collage on panelExecuted in 1947.Estimate on.
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