A set by Vincent Van Gogh that will be released in public will be sold in March with an estimated sale price of between 5 and 8 million euros (between a maximum of 6 and 9.7 million dollars), announcing this market the Sotheby’s and Mirabaud Mercier cases.
The work “Scene de calle en Montmartre (Callejón de los dos hermanos y del Molino de Pimienta)” was painted during the primavera of 1887 during the period that Van Gogh passed in Paris (1886-1888) and showed a passing couple by the hill of Montmartre.
This painting, which was in a private collection in France during a sail and which has not been seen in public since then, will be the star of the impressive artistry that both houses will celebrate in Paris on March 25th.
On the record of the quadruplet from which Van Gogh painted in 1887, the sales commissioner, Fabien Mirabaud, said in a statement that “there is a query that Théo, his son, who passed by some intermediates unknown and that antes of 1920 there is a manos de la familia that he possessed since entonces “.
The elusive sub-cases are detailed on the identity of the family, but explain that one of the conditions under which the sub is to be celebrated in Paris, while the tastes are to be queried, “although he assumes that it is possible that termine in the extranjero “, matizó Fabien Mirabaud, of the company that lives up to its name.
About the stage scene, the director of the Impressionist Art of Sothebys, Aurélie Vandevoorde, indicates that in this era the Parisian hill of Montmartre has ten parties: “a more urbanized, with the most famous cabaret, and a more rural, with huertos, Molinos, cobertizos … It’s the part where Van Gogh retreats “.
The Dutch painter “prefixes show a bucolic scene as a retreat from the barracks of the bar cabarets of the barrio”, added Mirabaud.
The work will be exhibited at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Paris before it is launched in the French capital on March 25.
The experts who manage this can be confident that the estimated price of health is known, which is lower, for example, if in 2020 a camphor landscape of the same painter sold in the Netherlands for 15 million euros (more than 18 million of dollars).
“It was made by a revolutionary team because it incorporates Van Gogh’s work into the clear colors and vibrant pigments.”
The expert Aurélie Vandevoorde also signaled that “in this frame the artist recovers the tradition of Dutch landscape” which is used to paint Montmartre, a barrier of artists.
The communication is that this team is part of a “very rare series” of Van Gogh paintings with the famous Molino of the Galette of Montmartre.
The Dutch Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived in Paris between 1886 and 1888, a period that coincided with some of the principal artists of the era, such as Gauguin, Pissarro or Toulouse-Lautrec, contacts that marked a rapid evolution in his painting, with that destined in post-impressionism and expressionism.