Picasso's Golden Muse Leads London Impressionist Sale

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  © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018.

  Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant), 1932.
  Sold for £27,319,000.

  Monumental in scale and richly painted, this remarkably tender and intimate portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted in 1932, known as Pablo Picasso’s 'year of wonders'.

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  Alberto Giacometti, Le Chat, cast in 1955.
  Sold for £12,642,000.

  With its body in perfect alignment, Alberto Giacometti's Le Chat is one of the most recognizable compositions of his post-war production, a period during which he created some of the most remarkable sculpture of the twentieth century.

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  Claude Monet, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral.
  Sold for £7,150,800.

  Monet’s dazzling view of the south coast of France, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral is one of his most accomplished and brilliantly hued compositions of the 1880s.

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  Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle.
  Sold for £6,432,500.

  Painted in 1964, Le peintre et son modèle is a powerful example of the artist’s highly expressive work on a magnificent scale, on the subject that dominated his late work.

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  Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter im Freien vor der Staffelei (Gabriele Münter Painting Outdoors in Front of an Easel).
  Sold for £5,303,500.

  A glorious celebration of colour and form, Gabriele Münter im Freien vor der Staffelei dates from a key period of development for Kandinsky and marks the artist’s definitive transition into the abstract.

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  Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme au chapeau orange.
  Sold for £4,964,800.

  Dating from March 1939 – a tumultuous period in Europe as well as in Picasso’s private life, Tête de femme au chapeau orange combines features of both of his muses from this time: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar.

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  Camille Pissarro, Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin.
  Sold for £3,490,000.

  Le Boulevard Montmartre, brume du matin, painted in 1897, is an outstanding work from one of the most important series of Pissarro’s urban views. The excitement and spectacle of the city at the fin-de-siècle are brilliantly evoked by the artist’s handling of paint and the elegant composition.

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  Henri Matisse, Portrait of Mrs Hutchinson.
  Sold for £3,130,000.

  The subject of this magnificent drawing is Mary Hutchinson, a British writer, member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as a model and socialite who commissioned the portrait from Matisse in 1936.
  
  Read the story of Matisse's friendship with Mary Hutchinson.

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  Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Diego.
  Sold for £2,890,000.

  A portrait of the artist’s brother and primary model, Diego, this sculpture’s extraordinarily radical and expressive form is typical of Giacometti’s celebrated mature style.

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  Paul Gauguin, Fleurs dans un panier, 1880-85.
  Sold for £2,290,000.

  The years from 1880-85 were eventful ones for Gauguin and saw great change both in his domestic life and in the development of his artistic vision. It is the period when he was most closely linked with the Impressionists yet, as Fleurs dans un panier shows, he was already beginning to experiment more radically with form and perspective.

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