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Amita Dand: A Journey Inspired by Monet’s Legacy

visionsart — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:06:30 +0000

Faded Dreams, Acrylic on canvas, 2023, Amita Dand

We are thrilled to introduce our newest artist, Amita Dand, whose captivating works will soon grace the virtual galleries of VisionsArts.com. Amita’s artistic journey is a testament to her deep admiration for Claude Monet’s work and an exploration of self-discovery through the canvas.

Monet’s Enduring Influence:

Claude Monet, the legendary Impressionist painter, has left an indelible mark on the art world, and for Amita, he serves as a constant source of inspiration. Her art practice is a beautiful homage to his legacy, characterized by an unreserved willingness to surrender to the creative flow.

Embracing Nature’s Beauty:

Amita’s passion for capturing the serene beauty of nature is exemplified through her exquisite renditions of water lilies and lotuses. Her paintings transport viewers to the tranquil world of ponds and gardens, where the delicate curves of water lily flowers dance upon the shimmering surface of water.

Emotional Essence on Canvas:

Approaching her canvas with an open heart, Amita lets her instincts and emotions guide her hand. Her brush strokes are loose and fluid, mirroring the natural flow of water. This unique approach allows her to convey not only the visual beauty of her subjects but also their emotional essence.

A Connection Between Inner and Outer Worlds:

Amita’s art is a profound connection between her inner thoughts and the canvas. Each piece is a reflection of her authentic self, inviting viewers to experience the serene beauty of nature through her eyes.

Artist Statement:

In her own words, Amita shares, “Ever since I was a child, I have always admired the beautiful water lilies blooming in the muddy ponds. And this admiration is seen in my works. My work explores the relationship between the reality and the imagination of the viewer. It involves lots of color layers and textures and is influenced by a touch of Contemporary form. I trust my inner voice and allow it to guide me through the creative process.”

Amita’s unique perspective, deep connection with nature, and the emotional authenticity of her work make her a remarkable addition to the world of art. Stay tuned as we unveil her exquisite creations on VisionsArts.com

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Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art – Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie Sells for $16,164,918

visionsart — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:59:00 +0000

Source – Artdaily.org

LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for $16,164,918. At this evening’s auction, 4 works of art sold for over £5 million / 16 over £1 million. Buyers (by lot / by origin) were 18% UK, 54% Europe not including UK, 26% Americas and 2% Asia. Giovanna Bertazzoni, Director and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s London: “This evening’s results demonstrate the strength of this long established category of art. Its timeless appeal was illustrated by committed bidding from a deep pool of collectors from around the world who seized the opportunity to bid for rare and exceptional works, many of which were offered at auction for the first time in decades.” Further leading highlights of the sale included: ·Les deux filles, a rare double portrait by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) which was offered at auction for the first time having been acquired directly from the artist through his dealer over 90 years ago, and which sold for £6,537,250 / $9,400,566/ €7,223,661, against a pre-sale estimate of £3.5 million to £5.5 million. ·L’abandon (Les deux amies), 1895, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), one of the finest works by the artist to be offered at auction, realized £6,201,250 / $8,917,398 / €6,852,381 (estimate: £5 million to £7 million). ·Les couturières, 1890, by Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), one of the seminal Nabi masterpieces which was painted when the artist was just 21 years old and which £5,081,250 / $4,306,838 / €5,614,781 against a pre-sale £4.5 million to £6.5 million. Elsewhere in the sale, La cuirasse d’or, circa 1907, a seductive portrait of a dancer by Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) sold for £2,897,250 / $4,166,246 / €3,201,461 against an estimate of £1.5 million to £2.5 million; and Reclining Mother and Child by Henry Moore (1898-1986), one of an edition of seven plus one further cast described by David Sylvester as ‘possibly the greatest of Moore’s works in bronze’, realized £2,617,250 / $3,763,606 / €2,892,061 (estimate: £1,500,000 to £2,000,000).

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Connoisseurs take back control of art market

visionsart — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:04:00 +0000

By Souren Melikian Published: January 9, 2009

LONDON: A new order is emerging in the art market and, in startling contrast to the broader economy, this calls for a celebration.

That art would follow a separate course in the current global crisis was bound to happen because a fundamental characteristic singles it out among all the goods that are traded. Each work is unique. One landscape by Monet does not equal another landscape by Monet and one Louis XV commode is not the same as any other Louis XV commode. The style, the condition, the aura derived from the weight of history or the lack thereof combine to give each one its specific set of characteristics that determine how desirable it is. And here is the factor that makes buying art fundamentally different from ordinary commercial transactions – desire, the combustible that fuels the art market engine.

These days, it is made more vivid by a sense of urgency as art supplies dramatically shrink. If you pine for a Lanvin suit, you will still be able to buy another one a few days later. If you are dead keen on a landscape by Monet, instant action is advisable because the opportunity of getting it may never recur.The last-chance syndrome accounts for the otherwise inexplicable performance of some works of art observed on the auction scene from New York to Paris as the economic outlook kept darkening last fall.

The most remarkable example was the $60 million “Suprematist Composition” by Kazimir Malevich sold at Sotheby’s New York on Nov. 3. The Dow Jones had just plunged but this was a chance in a lifetime. The picture, which had been hanging in an Amsterdam museum for 50 years, only tumbled on to the market following a court decision restituting it to the artist’s family.

There were other phenomenal successes. “Danseuse au repos” set a world record for a pastel by Degas and became the most expensive work on paper ever auctioned as it realized $37 million. While media commentators focused on the losses incurred by Sotheby’s and Christie’s that week as a result of “guarantees” conceded to consignors to secure their property, the truly significant phenomenon was that extraordinary prices continued to be paid.

Gloom deepened in December and yet the last-chance syndrome remained as effective as ever. When the rarity of the month, a 35.36-carat blue diamond, came up at Christie’s London on Dec. 10, with a £9.9 million, or $15 million, estimate, specialists could not conceal their apprehension. The most expensive stone ever sold before, a 100.10-carat diamond seen in 1995 at Sotheby’s Geneva, had made 19.85 million Swiss francs, then about $16.5 million. François Curiel, international head of the jewelry departments and chairman of Christie’s Europe, told the International Herald Tribune that the top professionals who came to inspect the blue diamond the day before the sale expressed admiration but showed no intention of taking part in the action. Yet when the moment of decision came, Laurence Graff of London, the world leader in precious stones who personally collects diamonds, kept bidding until he defeated Aleks Paul, a Russian-born New York professional, to the tune of £16.4 million.

The blue diamond was, again, a chance in a lifetime. Its history can be reconstructed as far back as 1664, when King Philip IV of Spain presented it to his daughter Margareta Teresa on the occasion of her betrothal to Emperor Leopold I of Austria. The gem is not just a fantastic stone, with its unusual intense blue color. It is, above all, a supreme work of art. The cut of the diamond, which is an Indian stone, brings out a typically Iranian geometrical pattern such as may be seen on the underside of architectural domes and gives a clue to its likely maker’s name, Sa’ida-ye Gilani, the Iranian head of the jewelry workshop of the Mogul Emperor Jahangir (1605-1627), who was a famous gem cutter. This would make it the most important intact historical diamond from the Islamic world. None of this was mentioned by Christie’s.

Little wonder that an art collector with sharp eyes such as Graff desperately wanted it. In a telling contrast, the rest of the sale fared poorly, leaving 56 percent of the lots unsold. These were fine but not irreplaceable jewels. Estimates had been set before the autumn troubles and bidders saw no compelling reason to match them.On Dec. 16, the powerful impact of splendor and rarity could be verified in Paris in a very different field. Christie’s was dispersing French furniture and decorative objects mostly from the 17th to the 19th century, including 11 pieces of which all but one had been bought from the Galerie Segoura. Maurice Segoura, a leading Parisian antiquaire for years, made no secret that he targeted the superrich. His price tags reflected his policy and reverberated on the estimates. Even so, seven lots found takers, some at extremely high levels.

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Claude Monet auction most expensive in European art history

visionsart — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:18:00 +0000

By Stephen Adams

The stratospheric state of the global art market has been underlined by figures that show last month’s ‘Monet’ auction at Christie’s in London was the most lucrative in European history.

The sale of Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas doubled the previous record for a work by the Impressionist artist

Despite the global economic slowdown, Christie’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art fetched £144 million.

Of that total, £40.9 million was accounted for by the sale of Claude Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas, from the Frenchman’s waterlily series.

That was a world record for a work by the artist at auction – almost doubling the previous record of £21 million, set earlier this year at Christie’s for Le Pont du chemin de fer á Argeneuil.

Humble motorists are effectively paying at the pump for the rocketing price of top works, art market analysts believe.

Controllers of Middle Eastern sovereign funds and Russian oligarchs are the new power brokers, they say.

That seems to have been born out by the £44 million Sotheby’s sale in May of Francis Bacon’s Triptych (1976) – the highest price ever paid for a work of contemporary art at auction. It was apparently sold to Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.

Although the billionaire has not confirmed the purchase, it is thought he bought it for his young girlfriend Daria ‘Dasha’ Zhukova.

She is in the process of setting up a major new art gallery, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture Moscow, or CCC, due to open in September.

Another world record to be smashed this year is the £17.3 million spent on a painting of a naked JobCentre worker by Lucian Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, the most ever spent on a work by a living artist.

The first half of 2008 has brought worldwide sales of £1.8 billion for Christie’s International, a 10 per cent increase on the same period last year. It’s Asian salesrooms have seen 63 per cent year-on-year growth.

Edward Dolman, chief executive officer of Christie’s International, said the figures reflected “the ongoing strength of the international art market.”

He added: “Collectors across the globe have remained active and confident, despite more uncertain economic conditions in some regions.

“Christie’s extensive international network has introduced an increasing number of buyers to the international art market from growth markets including Russia and the CIS states, the Middle East, India and China.”

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CHRISTIE’S AUCTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART REALISES £144 MILLION / $284 MILLION / €182 MILLION

visionsart — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:13:00 +0000

London – Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 – the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which realised £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / €51,683,539, a world record price for the artist at auction. 34 works of art sold for over £1 million (44 for over $1 million), and buyer activity at the auction (by lot) was 62% Europe including United Kingdom, 34% Americas, 3% Asia and 1% other. The auction saw a total of 8 artist records established, including for Claude Monet, Henry Moore and Natalia Goncharova.

Olivier Camu, Director and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s London and Thomas Seydoux, International co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s: “This evening’s auction realised the highest total for any art auction ever held in Europe, and illustrates the continuing strength and confidence of the art market. We saw particularly strong bidding for works of the highest quality which were fresh to the market. The leading lot of the auction was ‘Le bassin aux nymphéas’, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which witnessed a bidding battle involving many international collectors, before selling to a client in the saleroom for £41 million, a new world record price for the artist at auction. A further highlight was ‘Danseuse a la barre’, an extremely rare early masterpiece in pastel by Edgar Degas, which also drew bidding from a number of international clients and far exceeded its pre-sale estimate, selling for £13.5 million, the second highest price for the artist at auction.”

The top 5 prices of the evening were:

– Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which was offered from the Estate of J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller and which realised £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / €51,683,539, a world record price for the artist at auction.

– Danseuse a la barre, an extremely rare early masterpiece in pastel by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) which realised £13,481,250 / $26,504,138 / €17,026,819 far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of £4,000,000 to £6,000,000.

– Les Fleurs, circa 1912, a rare and powerful work by Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) which sold for £5,529,250 / $10,870,506 / €6,983,443, a world record price for the artist at auction, and a world record price for a work by a female artist at auction.

– Draped Reclining Woman by Henry Moore (1898-1986) which was also offered from the Estate of J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller and which realised £4,297,250 / $8,448,394 / €5,427,427, a world record price for the artist at auction.

– The Portrait of Yanaihara by Alberto Giacometti (1906-1966) which was painted in 1958 and which sold for £4,297,250 / $8,448,394 / €5,427,427.

Property from the Estate of J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller

The auction was led by a selection of seventeen works from the Estate of J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller. J. Irwin Miller, an industrialist from Columbus, Indiana, and his wife Xenia Simons Miller, who were major philanthropists and patrons of the arts and who were instrumental in turning the American city of Columbus, Indiana, into a showcase for modern architecture. The seventeen Impressionist and Modern works together realised £67,540,050 / $132,783,738 / €85,303,083, and was led by Claude Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas which realised £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / €51,683,539, a world record price for the artist at auction.

Works from the Collection of the late Simon Sainsbury

A selection of 7 works from the collection of Simon Sainsbury were sold this evening for a total of £10,424,750 / $20,495,059 / €13,166,459, led by Collioure. Les Balancelles, 1887, an early Pointillist picture by Paul Signac (1836-1935) which sold for £2,953,250 / $5,806,090 / €3,729,955. One of Britain’s most generous philanthropists and discerning collectors, the late Simon Sainsbury assembled throughout his lifetime one of the finest private British collections of the 20th century, from which a selection of furniture, ceramics and art was sold at a landmark auction on 18 June 2008 at Christie’s in London for £16,512,025 / $32,214,961 / €20,772,127, bringing the total to £26,936,775 / $52,710,020 / €33,938,586. Proceeds from the sale of the collection as a whole will benefit the charity established by Simon Sainsbury in 1965, The Monument Trust.

Works from a Distinguished European Collection

A selection of 11 works from a Distinguished European Collection assembled nearly half a century ago realised £9,494,550 / $18,666,285 / €11,991,616, and was led by Les Sapins, Varengeville, a luminous coastal landscape by Claude Monet (1840-1926) which was painted in the Summer of 1882, when the artist was staying at Pourville on the Norman coast in France and which sold for £3,177,250 / $6,246,474 / €4,012,867.

The Hoh Collection

The auction sold 7 works from the impressive collection of 20th century avant-garde works assembled by Alfred and Elisabeth Hoh, which toured various German institutions between 1998 and 2000 as the ‘Languages of Art’ exhibition and which realised £12,816,750 / $25,197,730 / €16,187,555. Leading the selection was Les Fleurs, circa 1912, a rare and powerful work by Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) which sold for £5,529,250 / $10,870,506 / €6,983,443, a world record price for the artist at auction, and a world record price for a work by a female artist at auction.

ARTIST RECORDS:

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Le bassin aux nymphéas, 1919

Sold: £40,921,250 / $80,451,178 / € 51,683,539

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR A WORK OF ART SOLD BY CHRISTIE’S IN EUROPE

Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962), Les Fleurs

Sold: £5,529,250 / $10,870,506 / €6,983,443

WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR ARTIST

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR A WORK BY A FEMALE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Henry Moore (1898-1986), Draped Reclining Woman, 1957-1958

Sold: £4,297,250 / $8,448,394 / €5,427,427

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné (Russian, 1888-1944), The Rhythm (Adam and Eve), 1910

Sold: £2.729.250 / $5.365.706 / €3.447.143

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Vera Rockline (Russian, 1986-1934), The Card Player

Sold: £2,057,050 / $4,044,554 / €2,598,307

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Oscar Dominguez (1906-1957), Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle

Sold: £1,497,250 / $2,943,594 / €1,891,027

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Leo Gestel (1881-1941), Gladiolen

Sold: £505,250 / $993,322 / €638,131

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

Frits Van Den Berghe (Belgian, 1883-1939), Bloemen over de stad (Fleurs sur la ville)

Sold: £241,250 / $474,298 / €304,699

WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION

About Christie’s

Christie’s is the world’s leading art business with global auction sales in 2007 that totaled £3.1 billion/$6.3 billion. This marks the highest total in company and in art auction history. Christie’s is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise, as well as international glamour. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie’s conducted the greatest auctions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and today remains a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christie’s offers over 600 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewellery, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $80 million. Christie’s has 85 offices in 43 countries and 14 salerooms around the world including in London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Dubai and Hong Kong. Most recently, Christie’s has led the market with expanded initiatives in emerging and new markets such as Russia, China, India and the United Arab Emirates, with successful sales and exhibitions in Beijing, Mumbai and Dubai.

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