Dutch Golden Age artist Jan van Huysum’s pendant paintings A Vase of Flowers and Fruit with Flowers, will lead Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale in London on December 8 with an estimate of $8 million to $10.7 million (£6 million to £8 million).
The two paintings are the only known large-scale fruit and flower pendants by the artist dating back to 1731 to 1733. The pendants have a rich provenance, moving from the ownership of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel, the Barings, and the Rothschilds.
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They are now coming to auction from a private collection. The first still life, A Vase of Flowers, depicts a terracotta vase overflowing with flowers: roses, hyacinths, gentians, peonies, blossoms, and others. In Fruit with Flowers, fruits and flowers are spilling on top of each other, from peaches, grapes, figs, plums, red currants, and a pomegranate to hollyhocks and poppies.
A Vase of Flowers and Fruit with Flowers will tour New York until November 16 ahead of going on public view in London on December 4. “In terms of quality, condition and visual impact these are amongst the finest 18th century still lifes I have come across and they perfectly exemplify the refinement and ambition of Van Huysum’s mature style,” said Andrew Fletcher, Christie’s global head of the Old Masters department in a statement.
In June, Christie’s sold van Huysum’s Peaches and Grapes in a Wicker Basket for $8.65 million (£6.52 million) after carrying an estimate of £3 million to £4 million during the Old Masters Evening Sale in London, while another painting from the artist, an elaborate bouquet of roses, peonies, narcissi, poppies and orange blossom, totaled $7.35 million (£5.54 million).
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