Sotheby's to Offer Selected Works from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that it will offer a group of works from the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem across a series of sales throughout the upcoming autumn and winter auction seasons, in both New York and London. The group will be led by works in the New York sales of Impressionist & Modern Art this November, including canvases by René Magritte, Camille Pissarro, Chaïm Soutine and Georges Braque, among others.
The Israel Museum, founded in 1965, houses encyclopedic collections spanning from prehistory to the present day, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world. In July 2010, the Israel Museum completed a three-year renewal project that included the first comprehensive re-evaluation of its nearly 500,000 object collection since its founding, together with the complete re-installation of its collection galleries, which, in turn, catalyzed a carefully focused process of collection refinement. Proceeds from the works on offer will benefit future acquisitions.
Among the highlights of the works to be offered in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November are René Magritte’s Le droit chemin, an exceptional canvas from 1966 (est. $2.5/3.5 million), and Le Louvre, matin, printemps, one of a powerful series of works from Camille Pissarro’s unprecedented artistic study of Paris around the turn of the century (est. $1.5/2.5 million).
