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A drawing by Vincent\u00a0Van Gogh<\/a>\u00a0made during the artist\u2019s final years will sell at Christie\u2019s as part of the drawing collection sale titled \u201cA Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud\u201d on March 1 in New York. Estimated at $7 million\u2013$10 million, the work is titled\u00a0La Mousm\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(1888).<\/p>\n

The rare drawing comes from the family collection of London dealer Thomas Gibson and depicts an anonymous young female sitter. It is the last work of a group of 12 originally gifted by the artist to Australian painter John Russell that still remains in private hands. Other works from that gift, which include 9 landscapes and 2 portraits are held by the Guggenheim Museum<\/a> in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work is incredibly rare,\u201d said Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christies co-head of 20th and 21st century art department, adding that pieces of this quality typically end up in museums. \u201cWhen I saw it in the flesh for the first time, I was very moved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Gogh made the drawing after he completed a painting of the same sitter that now resides at the National Gallery of Art. Van Gogh took inspiration for the work from a Pierre Loti\u2019s 1887 novel\u00a0Madame Chrysanth\u00e8me<\/em>, which centers around a young woman in a relationship with a naval officer based in Japan. \u201cThe drawing is sort of reinterpretation of the subject,\u201d said Bertazzoni.<\/p>\n

According to the specialist, the work shows the influence of Japonisme, a tendency to draw on styles imported from Japan in 19th-century France. At the time this work was created, van Gogh was working in Arles.<\/p>\n

Russell sold\u00a0La Mousm\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0anonymously at auction in Paris in 1920, and it was acquired later in 1928 by Amsterdam-based collectors Kurt and Henriette H. Hirschland. In 1936, the Jewish couple fled the Netherlands, and the drawing was transferred among the Hirschlands\u2019 neighbors as they faced prosecution. Eventually, the work ended up at Amsterdam\u2019s Stedelijk Museum in 1943. In 1956, five years after its exhibition in a show at the museum, the work was returned to the family. Gibson acquired the work through the Hirschlands\u2019 heirs in 1983.<\/p>\n

The work subsequently traveled to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Tate, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.<\/p>\n

Three Van Gogh drawings have achieved prices near the value of\u00a0La Mousm\u00e9<\/em>, all of them landscapes sold nearly two decades ago. The record for a drawing by Van Gogh is held by\u00a0La moisson en Provence<\/em>\u00a0Garden of Flowers<\/em>\u00a0(1888), a pen and ink landscape which sold for $14.6 million in 1997 at Sotheby\u2019s in London. When it sold it again, in 2003, it made only $10.3 million.\u00a0Jardin de fleurs\u00a0<\/em>(1888) sold for $8.4 million at Christie\u2019s in 1990, and\u00a0Olive Trees with Les Alpilles<\/em> (1889) went for $8.5 million at Sotheby\u2019s in 1999.<\/p>\n

In Christie\u2019s early March sale, the Van Gogh will sell alongside seven works by Rene Magritte, Lucian Freud, and Henri Matisse that are expected to fetch a collected $15.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A drawing by Vincent\u00a0Van Gogh\u00a0made during the artist\u2019s final years will sell at Christie\u2019s as part of the drawing collection sale titled \u201cA Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud\u201d on March 1 in New York. Estimated at $7 million\u2013$10 million, the work is titled\u00a0La Mousm\u00e9\u00a0(1888). 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