A $450M art collection is poised to break Van Gogh and Cézanne’s auction records
The 12 works are valued at about $450 million, and Sotheby’s says van Gogh and Cézanne could set new auction records.
- On Wednesday, Sotheby's unveiled five Impressionist masterpieces from the Blaquier-Arrieta collection in London, ahead of a November New York auction where the 12-piece collection is expected to fetch around $450 million.
- Assembled by the late Argentine heiress Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her husband Carlos Pedro Blaquier, the collection remained private at their family estate, La Biznaga, until their children released it for sale.
- Works by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro are included; the rare Van Gogh is estimated at $180 million and the Cezanne at $120 million.
- Before the New York auction, the collection will tour Taipei, Hong Kong, and Paris; Helena Newman, Sotheby's chairman of Impressionist and Modern art, says there is "a return to really established, tried and tested works."
- The family is retaining important Latin American holdings while releasing the Impressionist core, a move Sotheby's characterizes as part of a generational shift in art ownership as major collections pass to new owners.
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Inside Sotheby’s $450M Blaquier-Arrieta Trove
The success of this spring’s auctions was sure to bring another mega-collection to market—and, for months, we’ve been waiting to hear what it would be. Today, Sotheby’s announced the Blaquier-Arrieta collection, with an expected value of $450 million before fees. The dozen works on offer feature landmark paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Camille […]
A collection of 12 paintings that have not been on public display for years, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet, is expected to fetch up to $450 million at an auction in New York in November. Five of the paintings went on sale today at Sotheby’s in London. They included Cézanne’s “Harlequin” and Monet’s “The Pottery Garden.” The rest of the collection is currently only available digitally. Among the works is Van G…
Works by van Gogh and Cézanne up for sale in Sotheby’s $450m auction
LONDON: A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a billion dollars are going up for auction after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private collection in South America. Sotheby’s auction house said Wednesday that works by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne are expected to smash records for the artists in the Nov. 18 sale in New York. If so, it would be the latest sign that, in uncertain times, …
A Fabled Collection, Hidden From View, Is Up for Sale
A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a trillion dollars are going up for auction after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private collection in South America. Sotheby's auction house said Wednesday that works by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne are expected to smash...
"Châtaigniers en fleurs" integrates the Argentine collection of 12 impressionist works saved for more than five decades. The auction at Sotheby's in New York is November 18 this year.
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