Neo-Impressionist painting could fetch $12 million US at auction

We're very proud at Christie's Paris to greet three highlights of this wonderful collection of more than 600 works. The highlights are, of course, the Signacs, so this opus 210 which depicts Saint-Briac in Brittany of 1890, so really a key moment for Signac with pointillism. The core of pointillism is the use of complementary colours, so here is a perfect example, this juxtaposition of blue and orange which are complementary colours, which when you get close to it, it's all an assemblage of small dots, so points of colour, and when they're put next to each other and you take a distance, then the shape and the motif comes to life. Since we have published that the sale is coming up, actually you know that the sale is coming up in Paris, in New York, in London, so it's a sui ben event. We have a lot of requests, we have a lot of excitement. This is another highlight of the collection. It depicts the Chapel of Saint Anne in Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez you can see in the distance here. South of France, Saint-Tropez, really an iconic subject for Paul Signac, where really it liberated him in terms of colour and you can really see the contrast between this one painted in 1905 and the opus we just saw painted in 1890, so 15 years difference, where Signac still in some ways sticks to a form of pointillism, but that he evolved completely in his own way, where the brushstrokes are much more, in a way, much more regular and larger. And that's really what got me, I'm not necessarily attracted by the subject because I only recognized it after reading the poster, but yes, it's really this palette that attracted me and the touches that are really very close compared to the canvas that we have on our left, which is still with smaller brushstrokes, a little more spaced.