Sotheby's New York Offers 12 Impressionist Masterpieces From the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection on November 18, Led by Van Gogh's Chestnut Trees in Blossom, Unseen in Public for Over Half a Century
Sotheby's New York will hold the single-owner evening sale Legendary: The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection on November 18, offering 12 Impressionist and modern works assembled by Argentine collectors Carlos Pedro Blaquier and Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier. Sotheby's official sale page lists the 12 lots by Vlaminck, Derain, Gauguin, Monet, Van Gogh, Sisley, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Pissarro, among others, with the public exhibition open from November 7 to 18 by reservation.
The sale is led by Vincent van Gogh's Chataigniers en fleurs (Chestnut Trees in Blossom), painted in Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890 and listed in the catalogue as estimate on request; art media citing Sotheby's put its expected price in the region of $180 million. The other headline lot is Paul Cezanne's Arlequin (about 1888-1890), the only one of his four harlequin portraits of his son still in private hands, reported at around $120 million. The 12 works carry a combined expectation of about $450 million.
According to Sotheby's and related reporting, most of the works have not been seen in public for more than half a century, and the Van Gogh has been privately held since the collectors acquired it in 1975. Results will be announced after the evening sale on November 18, and GSM Art will follow up with the realised prices.
Source: Sotheby's
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