{"id":31171,"date":"2026-10-01T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=31171"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:59:23","slug":"twelve-paintings-hidden-in-a-private-collection-for-roughly-50-years-are-heading-to-a-new-york-auction-valued-near-450-million-including-a-180-million-van-gogh-and-a-120-million-cezanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=31171","title":{"rendered":"Twelve paintings hidden in a private collection for roughly 50 years are heading to a New York auction valued near $450 million, including a $180 million Van Gogh and a $120 million C\u00e9zanne"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A collection of twelve impressionist and post-impressionist artworks valued at almost half a billion dollars is going up for auction on November 18, 2026, after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private collection in South America. The paintings come from a collection amassed by the late Argentine art collector Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and her sugar magnate husband, Carlos Pedro Blaquier, and are being sold by their children.They include van Gogh’s landscape \u201cCh\u00e2taigniers en fleurs\u201d (Chestnut Trees in Flower) estimated at $180 million, and C\u00e9zanne\u2019s portrait \u201cArlequin,\u201d which carries an estimate of $120 million. Neither has been seen in public for half a century. Sotheby’s auction house said on Wednesday that works by Vincent van Gogh and Paul C\u00e9zanne are expected to smash records for the artists in the sale to be held in New York.Helena Newman, Sotheby’s head of impressionist and modern art, said the collection was like a \u201cmini-Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay,\u201d the Paris museum that holds one of the world\u2019s greatest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks. \u201cIn my 30-plus years at Sotheby\u2019s, I\u2019ve never had the privilege of handling a collection of quite this content and calibre,\u201d she said.Newman said van Gogh’s painting of flowering chestnut trees captures the “explosion of energy and vitality” the artist felt after his release from a psychiatric asylum in May 1890. Just two months later, he took his life. On the other hand, the C\u00e9zanne portrait is one of four paintings of the artist’s son dressed as the Harlequin figure from clowning. The other three reside in major museums. Also in the collection are Parisian cityscapes by Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, a horse-racing image by Edgar Degas and a boating scene by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, all valued in the tens of millions of dollars.According to art expert Philip Hook, a former Sotheby’s auctioneer, the collection is “really the stuff of legend,” because the collectors did not loan out the works for exhibitions. \u201cNo one really knew what was in it. So now, for this to be revealed, is tremendously exciting,\u201d Hook said. \u201cThey came out with a collection that, rather cleverly, is focused on getting one representative work by each of the major names (of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art), and that is incredibly difficult to do,\u201d he added. \u201cThey succeeded with huge, huge style and success.\u201dPer Newman, the sale is likely to attract global attention, with potential buyers ranging from American tech billionaires to well-endowed Middle Eastern institutions and rich collectors from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.\u201cIn times where there\u2019s a lot of global macro geopolitical uncertainty, it\u2019s almost like there\u2019s a return to really established, tried and tested\u201d works that are \u201cunquestionably great,\u201d Newman said. \u201c(This) museum-quality Impressionist collection \u2026 is pretty rare.\u201d<\/div>\n


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