Exhibition: 12 January to 4 February 2009 at Christie’s, 8 King Street, London Auction: 4 February 2009 at 7pm, Christie’s, 8 King Street, London The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie’s on 4 February and will offer 47 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Kees van Dongen, Edward Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £60 million and is led by an important European collection of 6 paintings, including Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which is expected to realise in the region of £15 million. Highlights of the auction will be on public view at Christie’s in London from 12th January 2009. Further leading highlights include: •Les couturières, 1890, by Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), one of the seminal Nabi masterpieces which was painted when the artist was just 21 years old which is expected to realise £5.5 million to £7.5 million. •Les deux filles, a rare double portrait by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) which is offered at auction for the first time having been acquired directly from the artist through his dealer over 90 years ago, and which is expected to realise £3.5 million to £5.5 million. •La Promenade d’Argenteuil by Claude Monet (1840-1926), which was painted in Argenteuil in 1872, a golden period in the artist’s career, and which is expected to realise £3.5 million to £5 million. The auction will also present works by many of the leading masters of the category, including Kees van Dongen, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Pierre-August Renoir, Paul Gauguin and Henry Moore. Giovanna Bertazzoni, Director and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christie’s London: “We are proud to present this auction which will showcase museum quality works of art representing many of the leading movements of the category; from classic Impressionist painting to Cubist sculpture,from a Nabi masterpiece to Surrealist art. Many of these works are appearing at auction for the first time in many years, and all of them hold a timeless appeal to international collectors who continue to be drawn to rare and exceptional works of art. We are delighted to offer an important European collection of 6 Impressionist paintings which includes two masterpieces of the 1870s by Claude Monet and a seminal work by Toulouse-Lautrec. Impressionist and Modern art continues to attract global interest and we look forward to presenting a selection of works of the highest quality from 12 January to 4 February 2009 at Christie’s.”

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