94 per cent sold by lot, 97 per cent sold by value and 43 per cent of lots sold above the high estimate across both evening sales, which were led by René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie at £10.3 ...
After the age of Impressionism, which was filled with soft brushstrokes, beautiful sceneries, and the sunrise and gardens of ...
They partially embraced it but also valued the pre-modern past that the new age ... Impressionism Impressionism (with much post-Impressionism) was almost the last flowering of the traditional ethos ...
Myths and modernity were both admissible. The shift that followed had less to do with what was being painted than how. The most frequent complaint about Impressionist art concerned style—it was ...
Although France lurched violently into the modern era, the same years also saw rapid economic ... with one advancement in particular playing a crucial part in the development of Impressionist art, ...
"Both were created in the early 20th century by wealthy businessmen with a philanthropic bent and an obsession with impressionism ... a pivotal moment in modern art history.