Inside the house of Pauline Karpidas, the lady of art that will auction everything

by Andrea
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Behind the elegant but unpretentious entrance, from an apartment near the Hyde Parkin London, one of Europe’s most prominent collectors accumulated a remarkable treasure surreal art and from the postwar in a house full of colors and eclectic design.

Now in the 80s, Pauline Karpidas is selling almost all the art and personalized furniture housed in his residence, where great contemporary artists and other cultural figures have socialized between works by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

As a patron, it has been an influential and connected force in the art world for decades, but Karpidas remained a private figure that rarely speaks to the press. But its next sale, which is expected to yield about 60 million pounds ($ 79.6 million), will be the most expensive collection of a single owner ever offered by Sotheby’s in Europe.

“I can’t think of a broader place, outside any major museum collection, really, to study, look and be surrounded by so many central masterpieces of the surrealist movement and beyond,” said Oliver Barker, president of Sotheby’s Europe, in a London phone call.

Subsequently painting by Magritte, “La Statue steering wheel”, estimated to be sold for 9-12 million pounds ($ 12 to $ 16 million). Other highlights include:

  • Two works by Warhol inspired by painter Edvard Munch;
  • A pencil drawing of his wife, gala;
  • A Hans Bellmer painting made shortly before the artist was arrested in France during World War II; a formative and mystical painting of Dorothea Tanning of his dog; and the collector’s bed, made of branches and sculptural copper leaves, by Claude Lalanne.

The sale will take place on September 17 and 18, and the works will also be exhibited in London earlier this month, providing a rare glimpse of many works of art that have been out of the market for decades and will soon be scattered in private hands.

The historical auction occurs just two years after Sotheby’s sold the contents of the Karpid Summer House in Hydra, Greece, which became a summer meeting point for artists through their Hydra workshops. In this sale, which more than doubled its high estimate, works by Georg Baselitz, Marlene Dumas and Kiki Smith raised 35.6 million euros ($ 37.6 million).

“She is a true diva, in the most positive sense of the Word,” said the Swiss artist Urs Fischer in a videochamada. “She is also a little mysterious to me, although she has known her for a long time.”

Fischer met Karpidas over two decades ago, when he was in his early twenties, attended one of his Hydra meetings in the mid -2000s and regularly attended the art world parties with her.

Fischer noted her presence “bigger than life”: she usually wears striking hats, cigarette in her hand and has the tendency to tell great stories and scribble manuscript cards of multiple pages, he said.

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/galeria/dentro-da-casa-de-pauline-karpidas-a-dama-da-arte-que-vai-leiloar-tudo/

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