The Modern & Contemporary Art prestige sales in the spotlight
 

On 7^th and 8^th June, Artcurial will hold its Impressionist & Modern Art and Post-War & Contemporary Art prestige sales.

The chapter dedicated to Modern Art will feature exceptional artworks by René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Marc Chagall as well as remarkable sculptures by Germaine Richier and Salvador Dalí. The Contemporary Art sale will highlight monochrome through two major artists, Pierre Soulages and Yves Klein, black and blue.

Impressionist & Modern Art
The Modern Art sale will open on 7^th June at 7pm with a group of Surrealist artworks from several private collections, dominated by an exceptional gouache by René Magritte that has remained in the same French collection for forty years, La Saveur des Larmes from 1946, estimated €800,000 - 1,200,000. Artworks by Paul Delvaux, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Pierre Roy, Félix Labisse and Max Ernst will follow. Also on offer is a 1928 painting by Marc Chagall, Jeune femme au bouquet de fleurs, estimated at €550,000 - 650,000 as well as sculptures by Aristide Maillol, Germaine Richier and Baltazar Lobo. A set of four artworks from the 1940s by artists from the Hanoi School, Mai Thung Thu and Le Pho from Belgian and French collections will also be featured.

Post-War & Contemporary Art
The Contemporary Art sale will feature two exceptional artworks. The first, a painting by Pierre Soulages produced in 2008 during the last years of his life, is estimated €700,000 - 900,000.

This sale also features a resolutely modern painter, the creator of monochrome painting and a unique shade of blue: Yves Klein. The rare artwork in the sale was executed early in his career, in 1957. In an elongated horizontal frame on a sheet of cardboard using resin tinted with blue pigments, it is estimated €300,000-400,000. It comes directly from the collection of François and Ginette Dufrêne, to whom the artist gave it as a gift. A non-figurative painting, blue is both the only subject and the only object.

Soulages black. Klein blue. This sale gives rise to a monochrome cohabitation where colour alone triumphs. The day's sale will begin with a fine collection of great classics such as Hans Hartung, Georges Mathieu, Zao Wou-Ki, Olivier Debré and Jean Degottex. Finally, these sales will also see the dispersal of the collection of composer and conductor Pierre Boulez as a prologue on 7^th June at 6pm. The collection, which includes paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, bears witness to the links that the composer forged with painters throughout his long career: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Alejandro Otero, Jean Tinguely, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Arnaldo Pomodoro and Zao Wou-Ki, as well as artworks by Paul Klee, Jean Cocteau, Philip Guston, Pierre Soulages, Francis Bacon, Bernard Saby, and many others.

Information
Auctions
Impressionnist & Modern Art
Evening Sale: 7^th June - 7pm
Day Sale: 8^th June - 2pm

Post-War & Contemporary Art
Evening Sale: 7^th June - 8pm
Day Sale: 8^th June - 4pm

Exhibition
3 June, 11am-6pm
4 June, 2pm-6pm
5 June, 11am-6pm
6 June, 11am-6pm
7 June, by appointment

Contacts
Modern Art 
Elodie Landais
Tél. +33 1 42 99 20 84

Contemporary Art
Vanessa Favre
Tél. +33 1 42 99 16 13