Saint Louis Art Museum to auction several pieces
Published September 20th, 2007
The pieces will be sold at auction through Christie’s in New York. Income from the deaccessioning will be used to fund the Saint Louis Art Museum’s purchase of a $10 million Edgar Degas work, The Milliners, which was announced earlier this month. The painting comes from Blondeau Fine Arts Services in Geneva, Switzerland, and joins 16 other Degas works at the museum.
The pieces for sale are:
A 1935 still life and 1944 painting of sunflowers by Georges Braque, which are expected to bring a total of $600,000 to $900,000;
A 1900 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of a Girl Sewing, $2.5 million to $3.5 million;
Mary Cassatt’s 1908 Francoise in Green, Sewing, $1.5 million to $2.5 million;
Woman Seated in an Armchair by Henri Matisse, $1.8 million to $2.5 million;
A 1917 Jean Metzinger landscape, $700,000 to $1 million;
Maurice de Vlamnick’s 1912 Landscape with Trees, House and Lake, $300,000 to $400,000;
Other works by Maurice Utrillo, Andre Lhote and Henri Harpignies.
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