Museum-level Impressionist works to be auctioned
‘Edge of the Cliffs at Pourville’ is among the works up for auction.
Some 60 museum-level works by artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso collected by a dealer who popularized the Impressionists will be auctioned in Paris in October, Christie’s has said.
“These works, acquired directly from Monet, Renoir, Pissarro or Sisley, have been kept in the same family for more than a century and are being brought together today for the first time on the market,” the auction house said in a statement.
A visionary dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel championed the Impressionists who were initially criticized for an avant-garde style used to capture light.
