Sotheby’s will offer Claude Monet’s “Charing Cross Bridge” as part of its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on November 12.The painting is estimated to hit $20/30 million at the November auction. “Charing Cross Bridge” leads the sale of a private collection assembled primarily in the 1970s and 1980s by Andrea Klepetar-Fallek and her then husband Fred Fallek.The painting was acquired through Galerie Beyeler in 1977 and has remained in the family collection for more than 40 years. Monet’s paintings of Charing Cross Bridge hardly make auction appearances, making this a calendar event.The auction house has achieved a new benchmark price for the artist’s work in May this year when an example of his famed “Haystacks” pictures sold for $110.7 million.Painted during the artist’s three trips to London from 1899-1901, the “Charing Cross Bridge” painting is part of Monet’s seminal “London” series. According to Sotheby’s, “throughout these works, the artist captured the juxtaposition of the beauty of natural phenomena, such as fog rolling over the Thames, with the industrial development booming in London at the time, epitomized by smoke stacks and steam-powered railways.” The painting was composed from the vantage point of Monet’s room at the Savoy Hotel.The auction also features works by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Emil Nolde, and Jacques Lipchitz, among others.All pieces on offer this season are on view at Sotheby’s New York galleries on York Avenue from November 1 through November 12. The collection will be offered across both its Evening and Day Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art on November 12 and 13, respectively. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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