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Two paintings in particular lead the collection: Chataigniers En Fleurs by van Gogh, estimated in the region of 180 million US dollars (£135 million), and Arlequin by Cezanne, estimated in the region of 120 million US dollars (£90 million).
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paintings → lead → dollars
Neither has been seen in public for more than 50 years.
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Neither → see → years
Both are among the most important works by their respective artists to come to market, and both are poised to establish new auction records.
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both → come → records
Chataigniers En Fleurs was painted in May 1890, days after the artist’s arrival in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where he was to spend the last two months of his life.
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he → paint → life
Newly released from the psychiatric asylum of Saint Remy, and within an hour of his brother Theo in Paris, van Gogh is said to have experienced a powerful wave of optimism and energy that spilled out onto his canvases, making this period “the most urgent and expressive period of his career”.
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period → release → career
Almost every painting from this period now hangs in one of the world’s great museums.
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painting → hang → museums
Similarly, Cezanne’s Arlequin is one of only two of the artist’s sequence of 15 late figure paintings that is not held in a museum.
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that → hold → museum
Painted between 1888 and 1890, Cezanne’s four seminal Harlequin paintings are the first for which his son Paul posed.
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son → paint → which
Other works in the collection include Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s En Canot (Jeune Fille A La Barque), estimated at 25 to 35 million US dollars (£18.8 to £26.3 million), Camille Pissarro’s Parisian streetscape La Place Du Theatre-Francais Et L’Avenue De L’Opera, Soleil D’Apres-Midi En Hiver, estimated at 30 to 40 million US dollars (£22.61 to £30.14 million), and Edgar Degas’ pastel Avant La Course, estimated at 20 to 30 million US dollars (£15.12 million to £22.68 million).
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The group is completed by two early impressionist landscapes – Monet’s Le Jardin Des Tuileries and Alfred Sisley’s La Seine A Port-Marly – together with a rare Paul Gauguin still life painted in his final years in Tahiti; a portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; a further work by Pissarro; and two Fauve paintings by Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck.
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group → complete → Derain
The paintings were unveiled in London on Wednesday from the collection of Carlos Pedro Blaquier and Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier, Argentinian art collectors.
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paintings → unveil → Blaquier
Helena Newman, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, told the Press Association: “It’s one of the most important groups of works of impressionist and post-impressionist art from a private collection that we’ve ever offered.
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“We’ve called the collection legendary because indeed it is legendary.
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The two masterpieces that lead the collection are the Cezanne and the van Gogh.”
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Simon Shaw, senior adviser, impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s, said: “There was a time when you could walk into a top gallery in London or New York and, over a few years, build something of real museum quality.
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You simply can’t do that now, at any price.
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“What strikes me most is that the Blaquier-Arrieta collection doesn’t feel like a private collection at all.
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“It feels like a small museum – a miniature Musee d’Orsay, now opening its doors for the very first time.”
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