Impressionist and Modern works on paper and day sales

(image above: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Le Baiser. Estimate: 700.000 $ – 1.000.000 $)

New York, NY - Christie’s will present its Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale and Day Sale, Including Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman, on May 7 in New York.

The sales will contain paintings, drawings, sculptures and works on paper from leading Impressionist and Modern masters such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and many more.

As the critic Gustave Geffroy wrote in 1914, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is “the quintessential chronicler of Paris, as it is understood by those who come here seeking bright lights and wild pleasures”.

Over the course of his short artistic career, Lautrec executed innumerable scenes of the Parisian demi-monde, and the popular entertainments of Montmartre — the circus, café concert, cabaret, and above all the bal or dance-hall, usually in quick sketches on paper.

Au bal du Moulin de la Galette is a rare Lautrec oil painting on panel (estimate: 600.000 $ – 800.000 $).