5 March 6pm GMT
The evening sales are traditionally the most important of each season.
Here are our curated selections.
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Waterloo Bridge, 1901
pastel on paper
12 ¼ x 19 1⁄8 in. (31 x 48.6 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,000,000 – GBP 1,500,000
"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life, the air and the light, which vary continually…" Claude Monet
Christie's Lot Essay
Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Untitled, 1970
oil and wax crayon on paper
27 5⁄8 x 34 3/8 in. (70.2 x 87.4 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,500,000 – GBP 2,000,000
"Modern Art isn’t dislocated, but something with roots, tradition and continuity" Cy Twombly
Christie's Lot Essay
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled, circa 1947
hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
21 ¼ x 39 x 17 ½in. (54 x 99 x 44.5 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,500,000 – GBP 2,500,000
“My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement.”
Artnet
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Knabe in Matrosenanzug (Boy in a Sailor Suit), 1914
gouache, watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil on paper
18 7⁄8 x 12 ¼ in. (47.8 x 31.2 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,000,000 – GBP 1,500,000
Gerhard Richter (B. 1932)
Gilbert & George, 1975
oil on canvas
31 ½ x 39 3/8in. (80 x 100cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,500,000 – GBP 2,000,000
"I liked them as outsiders, above all … they took their own independence as a matter of course" Gerhard Richter
Christie's Lot Essay
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
Portrait de Lunia Czechowska
oil on canvas laid on board
18 1⁄8 x 14 7⁄8 in. (46 x 37.8 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 4,000,000 – GBP 7,000,000
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)
Ville de Paris, 1910-1912
watercolour on paper
29 ¼ x 38 3⁄8 in. (74.3 x 97.5 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 600,000 – GBP 850,000
"Art, like Nature, is rhythmic, which is to say Eternal" Robert Delaunay
Christie's Lot Essay
Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)
Portrait du Docteur Boucard, 1928
oil on canvas
53 7⁄8 x 30 ¾ in. (137 x 78 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 5,000,000 – GBP 8,000,000
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
L'Armistice, 1918
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 15 1⁄8 in. (55.4 x 38 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,800,000 – GBP 2,500,000
"I organize the opposition between colors, lines, and curves,” he said of painting. “I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray". Fernand Léger
Artnet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Le chapeau fleuri, 1895-1898
oil on canvas
25 5⁄8 x 19 ¾ in. (65 x 50 cm.)
ESTIMATE: GBP 1,200,000 – GBP 1,800,000
"Renoir probes his sitters to their very soul and offers them boldly to our gaze", François Daulte
Christie's Lot Essay
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