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Belgian impressionist Theo van Rysselberghe's
"Canal en Flandre" will be shown for the first time to the
public after hanging for over 100 years in a family's private
collection.
"We have works that are good enough to be in a museum," said
Sotheby's deputy director Virginie Devillez, standing in front
of the summery landscape scene. "It is an opportunity to see,
for free, beautiful work."
The two-day exhibition, which opened on Thursday evening, is
based around art works that have historical ties to Belgium.
They will all later be sold at Sotheby's auction houses in
London, Paris and New York.
The collection includes several sketches, which Devillez expects
to do well at auction because of their lower cost and the
limited availability of original paintings.
Among them are charcoal sketches of paintings by Belgian artist
James Ensor, including "Les Quatre Tempéraments", in which he
has inserted himself. It has a price tag of 60,000 euros
($73,446.00). Many of the other works are expected to fetch much
more than that.
($1 = 0.8169 euros)
(Reporting by Samantha Koester; Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel
and Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
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