Calisto Tanzi's fabulous collection goes up for auction, from van Gogh to Kandinsky, Toulouse-Lautrec to Monet

The title of the auction to be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Pandolfini ’s in Milan(Rediscovered Treasures. Impressionists and modern masterpieces from a private collection) would not presage anything exceptional, since “rediscovered treasures” and “masterpieces” are being talked about more and more often by now, but this time the event is really among the most important ones, since the fabulous collection of Calisto Tanzi, the former patron of Parmalat, will end up at auction. The collection, which is going up for auction due to the notorious court cases involving the company, is composed of more than one hundred pieces: 55 are those that will be sold by Pandolfini, while 75 lots will be awarded through telematic bidding on the online platform of the Istituto Vendite Giudiziarie in Parma (with bidding open until September 15).

The most valuable lots, however, are those that Pandolfini will offer to buyers in late October. The list of works is impressive in quality and names: going in order of lot number, it starts with a Femme, oiseaux, pastel and ink drawing on Japanese paper by Joan Miró (estimate between 30 and 50 thousand euros), and then we find a pastel by Edgar Degas depicting a Femme s’essuyant le pied (10-15 thousand euros), a Femme au bouquet, canvas by Federico Zandomeneghi (120-180 thousand euros), a still life by Paul Gauguin with hyacinths and apples (150-250 thousand euros), works by Giacomo Balla including a splendid Futurlibecciata and a Portrait of Laura Marcucci Cambellotti, daughter-in-law of Duilio Cambellotti (both works 30-50 thousand euros).

Also: a Landscape by Vasily Kandinsky (150-250 thousand euros), a Woman with Dog by Vittorio Matteo Corcos that is among the Livorno painter’s best-known and most successful works (80-120 thousand euros), a Tapissiere de Pénélope by René Magritte (€90-150 thousand), a painting by Gaetano Previati(Pensieri, €15-25 thousand), a Paysage du midi by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (€40-60 thousand), a still life by Vincent van Gogh (€280-350 thousand), a Venditrice di uccelli by Giacomo Favretto (€80-120 thousand), a female head by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (€80-120 thousand), the Falaise du Petit Ailly à Varengeville, the Claude Monet canvas that was also exhibited at the National Gallery in Parma this summer to raise awareness about its possible dispersal on the art market (it is the highest-value piece in the collection, along with Pablo Picasso’s Still Life with Lemon, Orange and Glass: the estimate for both is between 800 thousand and 1.2 million euros), a Woman Reading by Umberto Boccioni (30-50 thousand euros), a landscape by Paul Signac (120-180 thousand euros).

Also by van Gogh is a chalk on paper estimated between 200 and 300 thousand euros, and Boccioni also returns with an Allegory of Life (150-250 thousand euros), while the auction continues with a drawing by Céfangs(Le hêtre, 80-120 thousand euros), a landscape by Giovanni Segantini(Savognino d’inverno, 100-180 thousand euros), and a study of trees by Édouard Manet (180-250 thousand euros). It ends with works by Massimo Campigli, Giuseppe De Nittis, Antonio Ligabue, Ennio Morlotti, Nicolas de Staël, Luciano Minguzzi, Gino Severini, Guglielmo Ciardi, Francesco Messina, Maurice Utrillo, Marcello Dudovich, and a drawing by Giovanni Fattori.

In essence, there is much of the history of art between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Those who would like to see all the lots live can go until Sept. 15 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) to the Monteparma Foundation in Parma, from Sept. 20-22 (10 a.m.-3 p.m. on the 20th, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. the other days) in Florence at Palazzo Ramirez Montalvo, from Oct. 10-12 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) in Rome at Via Margutta 54, and from Oct. 25-28 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) in Milan at the Centro Svizzero. To see the works, you can go to the <a href=“https://www.pandolfini.it/it/asta-0315/tesori-riemersi--<a href=”https://www.finestresullarte.info/arte-base/impressionisti-chi-erano-principali-artisti-impressionismo“>impressionists</a>-e-capolavori-.asp” target=“_blank”>site of Pandolfini.

Pictured: Vincent van Gogh, Still Life with Basket of Apples (c. 1885; oil on canvas, 30.6 x 47.6 cm)

Calisto Tanzi's fabulous collection goes up for auction, from van Gogh to Kandinsky, Toulouse-Lautrec to Monet

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