Impressionist Paintings with Decorated Provenances to Fetch $45 M. at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s has unveiled four paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, all from the same private collection, that will take center stage at the house’s upcoming Impressionist and modern art sale on May 12 in New York. Together, the works are expected to fetch a collected price of $45 million.
Leading the group is Cézanne’s Nature morte: pommes et poires, which carries an estimate of $25 million–$35 million. It is an example of one of Céz