CAMILLE PISARRO - Vue sur la gare d'Orléans

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MARC CHAGALL - Amoureux au bouquet de fleurs

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This market is a duel between two valuable paintings listed for 

Christie's "Art Impressionniste & Moderne"

Both were given the same initial estimates by Christie's: 

This market resolves to the painting which the Christie's website lists with a higher sale value at the auction. 

Camille Pisarro was an influential 19th century French impressionist, and "the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions".

In the 1950s, the artist's iconographic elements took on a clearly defined place in space, and the transitions between colours became smoother and more harmonious. In 

, for example, the motifs are both distinct and intertwined, seeming to grow out of each other.A monumental spray of colourful flowers occupies the centre of the composition, surmounting a basket of fruit placed on the roof of a house. This combination of motifs evokes the fullness of life and its gifts, a celebration of natural and spiritual abundance.