![]() ![]() 21, marking the first time that it has been publicly exhibited since a 1905 van Gogh retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Prior to the auction, the watercolor will be on view at Christie's in London from Oct, 17 to Oct. Discover more great images on our sponsors site. Sponsored Images iStockLIMITED DEAL: 20 off with PIXABAY20 coupon. "Everything is breathtaking: the iconic subject, the perfect condition of the gouache, the intensity of the ink in the trademark cross-hatchings and twirls defining the landscape, the ambitious scale of the composition," she said in a news release Thursday. Related Images: painting art landscape fine art painter nature post impressionist colorful. Giovanna Bertazzoni, vice chair of 20th and 21st century art at Christie's called the artwork one of the most powerful works on paper by van Gogh ever to appear on the open market. It is unclear where the artwork was between the end of the war and the 1970s, but Cox bought it at the Wildenstein gallery in New York in 1979. Rothschild fled to Switzerland at the onset of World War II and her art collection, including the van Gogh watercolor, was confiscated by the Nazis during the Occupation. Meirowsky entrusted 'Wheatstacks' to a Paris-based art dealer, who sold it to Alexandrine de Rothschild, a member of the renowned Jewish banking family. It was purchased in 1913 by industrialist Max Meirowsky, who fled Germany for Amsterdam in 1938 fearing Nazi persecution. ![]()
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