An important Parisian work by Vincent van Gogh, which has been in the private collection of the same French family for more than a century, is set to be exhibited to the public for the first time since it was painted in the spring of 1887.
Scène de rue à Montmartre is part of a rare series depicting the celebrated Moulin de la Galette, perched on the hill overlooking the capital, painted during the two years the Dutch artist spent sharing an apartment with his brother Theo on rue Lepic.
Acquired by a French collector in 1920, it has remained in the same family ever since and has never been exhibited to the public, despite being listed in seven catalogues. It will be exhibited in London, Amsterdam, and Paris before being sold by Sotheby’s in March, when it is expected to fetch between €5 million (£4.3 million) and €8 million.
“Very few paintings from Van Gogh's Montmartre period remain in private hands – most are in the collections of prestigious museums around the world,” said Aurélie Vandevoorde, of the auctioneer’s Impressionist and Modern art department in France. “The appearance on the market of a painting of this calibre, from such an iconic series, undoubtedly marks a major event.”
Claudia Mercier, of the auction house Mirabaud Mercier, which is associated with the sale, said the work was “captivating.”
The painting shows the Moulin Dubray or Moulin à Poivre, a Montmartre windmill destroyed in 1911, along with the entrance to the grounds of the Moulin de la Galette with decorative lanterns on top and a carousel behind the wooden fence.
Montmartre, also known as La Butte, was rapidly transforming at the time from a rural village into a boisterous entertainment district, popular with Parisians for its cafés and with a generation of artists, intellectuals, and writers for its bohemian atmosphere.
Van Gogh’s two years in Paris, from 1886 to February 1888, when he left for Arles, are widely seen as laying the groundwork for his later unique style, exposing him to the influence of Impressionists such as Monet and Pissarro, but also to a younger generation of artists including Paul Signac, Émile Bernard, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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