:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/3fb24b9c-b470-11eb-8655-02d2fb1aa1d7.jpg "Van Gogh, Mondrian and Picasso sold in New York | Abroad")
Le pont de Trinquetail by Van Gogh brought in 30.9 million euros, well above the estimated proceeds of between 21 million and 29 million euros. Van Gogh painted it in Arles, France, in June 1888. It was auctioned at Christie’s by a private collector.
Piet Mondrian Composition No. II, with Yellow, Red and Blue from 1927 was sold for 21.6 million euros. The auction house was expecting around 20 million. This work was in the hands of a bank in Switzerland.
Picasso
A painting by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was also auctioned on Thursday evening in New York for an amount of approximately 85 million euros.
The bidding took almost twenty minutes. The work was expected to yield some EUR 46 million; due to commissions and other costs, the total amount came to $ 103.4 million.
It concerns the painting entitled Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (Woman seated by a window (Marie-Thérèse)). Picasso painted the canvas with his then muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in 1932. As on Le Rêve (The Dream), another canvas on which Walter is depicted, Picasso painted her in predominantly light and bright colors.
