At the upcoming autumn auction in mid-November, China Guardian launched the "Impressionist and Modern Art Night Auction" for the first time. Among them, Claude Monet's museum-level "Water Lilies" series, early portraits of Paul Cézanne, camille Pissarro's important landscape creations in the transitional period, and Pablo Picasso's typical style portraits in his prime years will lead the night show.
Created in 1913, The Water Lily Pond and the Rose is a masterpiece of Claude Monet's mature style. The painting depicts the Garden of Giverny, which he personally created, which is also the subject of his most prestigious paintings. An arched trellis covered with roses can be seen in the painting, and Monet depicts the Garden of Giverny in this way only three, with "Water Lily Pond and Rose" being the widest of the three. In this auction, another of Monet's works, "The Staircase", will also be unveiled, which is a classic of Monet's creative transformation period.
Pablo Picasso, the founder of Cubism, favored the subject matter of the "woman in a hat". In this auction, he presented "The Woman in the Hat", created in 1965, in which the model was Picasso's last wife, Jacqueline Roque. The woman in the painting wears a golden hat and looks relaxed and relaxed, which is also a portrayal of the painter's state of mind at that time.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Wang Guangyan
Edited by Jin Liwei
Process Editor Liu Weili