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Shorenstein Collection at Christie's

September 23, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The Shorensteins, a San Francisco real estate family, had an unusual collection of Impressionist and Asian art that will be sold through Christie’s. It The Asian works will be sold in Hong Kong but the Impressionist paintings will join a few others in New York this November, according to Carol Vogel in The New York Times:

Among the best of them is Caillebotte’s “Seine à Argenteuil,” a sun-drenched scene of racing boats on the Seine from 1882. Estimated at $5 million to $7 million, it will go on the block Nov. 3 in Christie’s Impressionist and modern art auction. So will a portrait of three of Pissarro’s children in the family garden, a canvas that he painted in 1892 and that is expected to fetch $3 million to $4 million. There is also an early landscape by Seurat from 1882 that is expected to bring $1.8 million to $2.5 million and will be sold alongside four drawings and one painting from another sellerContinue Reading

5x Over 20 Years

February 5, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Seurat, Garconnet Assis (£1.945m)The Master, Judd Tully, shows the return on the small Seurat drawing sold at Sotheby’s this week:

Georges Seurat’s Conté-crayon-and-gouache drawing Garconnet assis (Maurice Appert) from circa 1884 sold to a telephone bidder for £1,945,250 ($3,122,126), nearly double its estimates of £750,000–1 million. The page-sized work last sold at auction at Paris’s Ader, Tajan in November 1989 for the equivalent of $691,000.

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