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Beautiful painting by Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington
“Les Distractions de Dagobert” (1945)

#Sotheby’s is set to make an auction record for the British-born #Surrealist painter #LeonoraCarrington with “Les Distractions de Dagobert” (1945), estimated between $12mn and $18mn.

The work has been in the same American collection since 1995, when it was bought for $475,500, and is re-offered, guaranteed, in New York next month. Her current record stands at $3.3mn, for “The Garden of Paracelsus” (1957), which sold in 2022.

#art #artauction #GiftLink #giftarticle
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Text Shot: The 1945 painting’s title references seventh-century king of the Franks Dagobert, “whose taste for sexual excess was matched by a love of luxury”, Sotheby’s says. The fantastical work combines Carrington’s knowledge of the Renaissance, notably Hieronymus Bosch, with ghostly imagery and biomorphic forms inspired by Celtic mythology and the cosmic beliefs that she encountered once she moved to Mexico during the second world war. Carrington died in Mexico City in 2011. Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and Modern Art, describes “Dagobert” as “the best of works by an unquestionably important and wildly talented artist”. The auction house has priced it according to levels on the private market, he says, noting too the growing institutional and collector demand for female Surrealists, including Carrington, her friend Remedios Varo and their contemporary Frida Kahlo. The work was most recently on show in the 2022-23 Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity exhibition…
Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington “Les Distractions de Dagobert” (1945)
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Picassos "Femme à la montre" für 130 Millionen Euro versteigert

1932 porträtierte Picasso seine Geliebte Marie-Thérèse Walter. Nun ist das Gemälde für rund 130 Millionen Euro in New York versteigert worden. Es stammt aus einer der weltweit bedeutendsten Sammlungen moderner Kunst.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/

#Picasso #Sotheby's

tagesschau.de · Picassos "Femme à la montre" für 130 Millionen Euro versteigertBy tagesschau.de
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