{"id":57057,"date":"2025-10-27T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=57057"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:53:55","slug":"modernites-at-sothebys-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/modernites-at-sothebys-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernit\u00e9s at Sotheby&#8217;s Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57058\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/modigliani-bust-elvira-sothebys-paris-717x1024-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57058\" class=\"wp-image-57058 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/modigliani-bust-elvira-sothebys-paris-717x1024-1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"A semi-nude bust-length portrait by Amadeo Modigliani\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/modigliani-bust-elvira-sothebys-paris-717x1024-1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/modigliani-bust-elvira-sothebys-paris-717x1024-1.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Elvire en buste<\/em> by Amadeo Modigliani<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Friday, October 24th, Sotheby\u2019s Paris hosted its <em>Modernit\u00e9s<\/em> sale, featuring mostly twentieth-century works by European and North American artists, including Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean Fautrier. The main draw, however, was a pair of portraits by the Italian modernist Amedeo Modigliani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Elvire en buste<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Raymond<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> were both initially valued between \u20ac5.5 million and \u20ac7.5 million. Sotheby\u2019s selected the former for its promotional materials and advertisements for the sale. The painting is a bust-length semi-nude portrait of a subject who appears in several of Modigliani\u2019s works. Though the young woman\u2019s identity remains unknown, she was most likely a local model living near Cagnes-sur-Mer, the town close to Nice where Modigliani and several other artists relocated in 1918 to escape the German siege of Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During his time in the south of France, art historians note that Modigliani\u2019s work reflected a synthesis of influences\u2014from sixteenth-century Mannerism to the \u201cstructural rigor\u201d of Cubism and the stylized forms of African art admired by modernists in early twentieth-century France. Despite being considered one of the highlights of Modigliani\u2019s southern period, <em>Elvire en buste<\/em> had not been exhibited publicly for nearly sixty years, remaining instead in a series of private collections.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The work proved extremely popular with the bidders at Sotheby\u2019s, blowing right past the already impressive high estimate and landing at the astronomical hammer price of \u20ac23 million \/ $26.7 million (or \u20ac26.98 million \/ $31.4 million w\/p), or over three times the pre-sale high estimate. It is the most expensive painting by Modigliani sold at auction since 2023, when <\/span><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/75\/Amedeo_Modigliani_-_Paulette_Jourdain.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Portrait of Paulette Jourdain<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> sold at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong for $34.8 million w\/p.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57059\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57059\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57059\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"A bust-length portrait of a boy by Amadeo Modigliani\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-109x138.jpg 109w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Raymond<\/em> by Amadeo Modigliani<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The other Modigliani portrait offered on Friday, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Raymond<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, is believed to have been created in 1915, when the artist was still in Paris. According to several of the artist\u2019s associates, including Jean Cocteau and Andr\u00e9 Salmon, the subject is the young writer Raymond Radiguet when he was only 12 years old. Even as an adolescent, Radiguet would regularly travel from his home in the suburbs of Paris to the city center. He would go on behalf of his father, who worked as a caricaturist and often sent his young son to deliver his work to newspapers and magazines. Though it would be several years before Raymond himself would have his poetry and novels published, he felt drawn to the French capital\u2019s caf\u00e9 culture, meeting many of the modern art pioneers who frequented such establishments. He would later be <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/media.mutualart.com\/Images\/2022_06\/21\/00\/000200597\/52144798-e705-470a-bb0a-e3e383df8b16_570.Jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">photographed by Man Ray<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and have his likeness carved as <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/WebServices\/images\/ll00137lld7D8JFgpeECfDrCWvaHBOcyP6G\/jacques-lipchitz-portrait-de-raymond-radiguet.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a bust by Jacques Lipchitz<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Modigliani created portraits of children during his career, but here we see something different. The portrait does not explicitly portray Radiguet as childlike. Rather, the work is more similar to Modigliani\u2019s paintings of his artistic contemporaries, such as Pablo Picasso. According to Sotheby\u2019s specialists, Modigliani\u2019s strength as a portraitist was his ability to \u201cseize an essence rather than an appearance.\u201d Radiguet is sculptural and mature here, with a diagonal line bisecting his face, separating his eyes: one with a green pupil looking back at the viewer, the other dull and gray. Some have commented that this may reflect Modigliani\u2019s well-known quote about the ability of artists to observe as well as express: \u201cWith one eye you look at the world, with the other, you look within yourself.\u201d The artist\u2019s division of the face may also refer to the subject\u2019s fractured being, existing as an adolescent while also subverting the expectations of someone his age through independence and creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having remained in private hands since its creation, <em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Raymond<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> made its auction debut at Sotheby\u2019s on Friday. Like <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Elvire en buste<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Raymond also surpassed the high estimate, hammering at \u20ac8.8 million \/ $10.2 million (or \u20ac10.6 million \/ $12.4 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57060\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57060\" class=\"wp-image-57060\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"A post-Impressionist work of three people at a table drinking wine.\" width=\"273\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped-1536x1228.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pf2516-dbmk6-t1-02-cropped.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Le d\u00e9jeuner champ\u00eatre<\/em>, or <em>Ap\u00e9ritif \u00e0 la Grenouill\u00e8re<\/em> by Maurice de Vlaminck<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And finally, a little bit of Fauvism to round out the top lots, a colorful work by Maurice de Vlaminck. While many may know him for his landscapes and views of village streets, it\u2019s important to remember that Vlaminck was originally associated with the Fauves, being good friends with Andr\u00e9 Derain. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Le d\u00e9jeuner champ\u00eatre<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, also called <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ap\u00e9ritif \u00e0 la Grenouill\u00e8re<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, shows three figures seated at a table enjoying a drink surrounded by a dazzling array of reds, pinks, and yellows in a distinctly post-Impressionist wonder. It serves as Vlaminck\u2019s own foray in exploring the subject of leisure, which was popular among modern painters since the mid-nineteenth century. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La Grenouill\u00e8re was a restaurant and cabaret on a pontoon boat moored on an island in the middle of the River Seine, less than ten miles west of Paris. <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/67\/Claude_Monet_La_Grenouill%C3%A9re.jpg\/1280px-Claude_Monet_La_Grenouill%C3%A9re.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Claude Monet<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_060.jpg\/1280px-Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_060.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> had also painted scenes at La Grenouill\u00e8re. Vlaminck then shows a trio of bourgeois Parisians fleeing the city for an afternoon to enjoy a drink by the water. The painting dates to 1906, only a year after the Fauves first exhibited at the Salon d\u2019Automne in Paris. There, Vlaminck had his work shown alongside that of Derain, Henri Matisse, and Kees van Dongen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Le d\u00e9jeuner champ\u00eatre<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has been in very few hands since it left Vlaminck\u2019s studio, first going to Vlaminck\u2019s dealer Ambroise Vollard, who then left it to the collector Madeleine de Gal\u00e9a. Her heirs were the ones who consigned the painting to Sotheby\u2019s, where it made its auction debut. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Le d\u00e9jeuner champ\u00eatre<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was most recently featured in an exhibition focusing on the artist at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam just earlier this year. Estimated to sell between \u20ac2 million and \u20ac3 million, the Vlaminck hammered just beyond the low estimate at \u20ac2.15 million \/ $2.5 million (or \u20ac2.66 million \/ $3.1 million w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall, Sotheby\u2019s Modernit\u00e9s sale on Friday was a resounding success. Of the forty-one available lots, sixteen sold within their estimates (a 39% accuracy rate). Ten lots (24%) sold below estimate, while nine (22%) sold above estimate. With only six lots unsold, the sale achieved an 85% sell-through rate. Among the works that went unsold were an untitled painting by Joan Mitchell, estimated at \u20ac4 million or more, and one of Andy Warhol\u2019s 1973 Mao Zedong portraits, estimated between \u20ac700,000 and \u20ac1 million.<\/p>\n<p>While those results might have weakened an ordinary sale, the record-setting performance of the Modigliani portraits carried the day. The Modernit\u00e9s sale had been expected to bring in between \u20ac35.9 million and \u20ac50.7 million\u2014but thanks to the exceptional Modigliani results, the final total surpassed even the high estimate, reaching \u20ac52 million \/ $60.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, October 24th, Sotheby\u2019s Paris hosted its Modernit\u00e9s sale, featuring mostly twentieth-century works by European and North American artists, including Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean Fautrier. 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