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Apr 22 2009

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Girl With Red Bow
Vue de Moret
Portrait of a Lady, Frontal View
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Girl With Red Bow
by Alexej von Jawlensky
Price in 2009: $2.8 million
-60.5% since 2006
This Expressionist work was used for the cover of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art catalog last year.
Vue de Moret
by Alfred Sisley
Price in 2009: $554,000
-36% since 2006
Christie’s auctioned this work by Sisley, who specialized in landscape paintings.
Portrait of a Lady, Frontal View
by Gustav Klimt
Price in 2009: $277,000
-51.7% since 2008
This drawing, auctioned off by Sotheby’s, was a study for Freundinnen II.
Lunis
by Francis Picabia
Price in 2009: $751,000
-38.6% since 2008
This work, auctioned off by ­Sotheby’s, is from a well-known­ Picabia series.
-Jocelyn Hanamirian

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