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Looking For an Undiscovered 19th Century Master? Try Monticelli

March 23, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Adolphe Monticelli, Au Bord de le Riviere, Marseilles (413k USD)

James Tarmy is looking for bargains on Bloomberg and he points to Adolphe Monticelli, a fallen star of the 19th Century, as the place to look for high quality, consequential work that is priced far below his comparable peers:

Vincent van Gogh considered him a mentor; Paul Cézanne apparently found inspiration in his landscapes; Oscar Wilde even lamented selling a Monticelli in De Profundis. But eventually the painter was eclipsed by the impressionists. His work languished for almost a century. Recently there have been efforts to resuscitate his market. A 2008-09 exhibition in Marseille paired Monticelli with Van Gogh—an influential bit of curation that reminded collectors of the forgotten master. In 2013 a late Monticelli, Au Bord de la Rivière, Marseilles, sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $413,000, five times its high estimate.

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