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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. 

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR - Le Petit bras d'Argenteuil

... (was a) French painter originally associated with the  Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. Renoir mastered the ability to convey his immediate visual impressions, and his paintings showed great vitality, emphasizing the pleasures of life despite the financial worries that troubled him. (

LEONARD TSUGUHARA FOUJITA - Deux Petites Filles

I can't claim that this particular painting holds the slightest appeal for me, but 

 was a fascinating figure. Born in Japan, he found enormous success in Paris in the 1920s, before returning to Japan and working as an "official war artist" during WW2. After the war was lost, he did not feel welcome in Japan, and spent the rest of his life in France, "spent working on the frescoes for a small, Romanesque chapel in Reims that he had constructed". 