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What Happens to the Rest of a Fabled Collection After the Museums Have Had Their Pick?

March 21, 2016 by Marion Maneker

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Judith Benahmou-Huet digs down deep into a Christie’s sale to tell the story of Gauguin and “the small Breton town” that gave birth to a a famous collection:

On 31 March, Christie’s is organising a relatively modest sale in Paris (45 works estimated in the region of a million euros) originating, as the catalogue states, from a ‘private European collection’ and which reveals this fascination for the small Breton town. Going under the hammer will be the last remaining pieces from the most famous Pont-Aven School collection, assembled over the course of a lifetime by Samuel Josefowitz.

This businessman who lived in Lausanne and passed away in 2015 had already sold a significant number of artworks to the Indianapolis Museum – 17 paintings and 84 prints in total, fetching $30 million in 1998. The passionate man also donated his entire archives documenting the school to the Pont-Aven Museum.

This local museum, which tells the history of this loose movement that Gauguin steered between 1889 and 1894, will reopen on 26 March.

Gauguin & Co.: The Last Of The Fabled Josefowitz Collection Goes On Sale At Christie’s In Paris. (Judith Benhamou-Huet Reports)

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