Impressionist and Modern Art

Freeman’s April 29 auction of Impressionist and Modern Art is led by the landmark rediscovery of Europa by Josef Šíma, a 1927 near-twin canvas to the version held at the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Offered from the distinguished Ingersoll Family Collection of Philadelphia, the painting is supported by fully documented provenance, firmly anchoring it within Šíma’s Parisian milieu of the late 1920s. One of the artist’s most enigmatic and powerful works, Europa signals an ambitious pictorial language poised between Surrealism and poetic abstraction, that is bound to attract global interest. The sale is further distinguished by works from prominent Russian...