Today, we’re revealing an unprecedented group of 12 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, each one a masterpiece with distinguished provenance and rarity. This is ‘Legendary: The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection,’ headlining The New York Sales in November. Swipe to see each of the 12 masterworks.
This collection is led by two landmark paintings: ‘Châtaigniers en fleurs’ by Vincent van Gogh and ‘Arlequin’ by Paul Cézanne. Neither has been seen in public for over half a century and both are poised to set new auction records at #SothebysNewYork this fall.
The wider group traces the arc of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s ‘En Canot (Jeune fille à la barque)’—a boating scene painted the year the Impressionists took their name, Camille Pissarro’s grand Parisian streetscape ‘La Place du Théâtre-Français, soleil d’après-midi en hiver,’ and Edgar Degas’s pastel ‘Avant la course.’ Like the great majority of works in the collection, these paintings ...