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Sotheby s to offer $25 million Paul Cézanne still life in Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Paul Cézannes Nature morte: pommes et poires. Estimate $25/35 Million. Courtesy Sotheby s.
NEW YORK, NY
.- From an exceptional and distinguished private collection, Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale this May will be highlighted by masterworks from the defining Impressionist and Post-Impressionist French artists whose indelible bodies of work and artistic legacies shaped the course of Modern art history like no others: Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Claude Monet.
Cézannes Nature morte: pommes et poires (estimate $25/35 million) leads this outstanding group of four works. A poignant encapsulation of the artists greatest achievements, the dazzling canvas is an extremely rare example of the artists quintessential still lifes of this caliber remaining in private hands. With an illustrious provenance dating to epoque-defining dealer Ambroise Vollard, the pain
Artist Abbot Fuller Graves was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and had originally studied to become an architect. However, a latent interest in floral still-life painting prompted him to travel to Paris, France 1884 for art study, where he roomed with another Boston artist, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In 1886, with his financial success as an artist assured, he married and his friends Childe Hassam and Edmund Tarbell served as his ushers. In 1887 Graves made a second trip to Paris, this time .