From Rubens to Monet, the Itinerary of the 33rd Garden Party Auction

The Rouillacs’s sale of Claude Monet’s La Ville de Dieppe will mark the end of one amazing journey and the start of another. Estimated €1.5/2 M, it illustrates Monet’s talent as a landscape artist. In 1940 the painting was chosen to be exhibited at André Weil’s Paris gallery to mark the centenary of Monet ’s birth. After a spell in the United States, Switzerland and Japan, it will start a new life in Artigny. Allegory with St. George and the Dragon in a Landscape , from the studio of Peter Paul Rubens (see photo, €60,000/80,000), has also been through impressive adventures. Stolen by the n azis The picture is one of the three known versions of Tribute to England that Rubens painted after his stay there in 1629–1630, when Philip IV of Spain was working…