Sotheby's Lifts the Curtain on One of the Most Important Sales Series Ever Staged
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
-- $1 BILLION WORTH OF ART ACROSS 7 SALES IN 1 WEEK - Unveiled Today in
Sotheby's New York Galleries –
-- From The Legendary Macklowe Collection Through to 'The Now' Auction,
Dedicated to Today's Frontrunners
-- AUCTIONS 15-19 NOVEMBER
Featuring more than 680 lots that together comprise one of the most important
sale series ever staged, the full complement of Sotheby's November auction week
is today unveiled to the public in its entirety in Sotheby's New York Galleries.
Carrying a combined estimate in the region of $1 billion, the exhibition and
sales will be anchored by the celebrated Macklowe Collection - one of the
greatest collections of any kind ever to come to the market. The November
offering will include 35 works from the collection, each one a masterpiece in
its own right. (See here (
) and here (
) for further details). These will be presented alongside three further Evening
sales, featuring standout works from the late 19th century through to art
executed in the last 20 years, including Banksy (
), Jean-Michel Basquiat (
), Mark Bradford (
), Leonora Carrington (
), Jordan Casteel (
), Frida Kahlo (
), Lee Krasner (
), Claude Monet (
), Yoshitomo Nara (
), and many more, as well as 50 works from the collection of the storied art
collector and great television production Douglas S. Cramer, including Roy
Lichtenstein (
)'s masterpiece Two Paintings…Craig – a gift from the artist and a symbol of
their close friendship. The week of evening sales will also include a
dedicated, single lot auction of The Constitution of the United States (
), sold to benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation.
Selected highlights from the forthcoming season:
- Alberto Giacometti's Le Nez (
)
(estimate $70/90 million), from the celebrated Macklowe Collection, is one
of the artist's most important and powerful sculptures. Bringing together
references to Surrealism and African sculpture, Le Nez summarizes the
existential angst that is at the heart of Giacometti's work. No other
example of this extraordinary sculpture has ever appeared at auction, the
majority of casts having been acquired almost immediately by major museums
around the world.
- Also from The Macklowe Collection is Mark Rothko's magisterial No. 7 (
)
(estimate $70/90 million). Painted in 1951, the work dates the key moment
in the early 1950s during which Rothko developed his signature style of
abstraction and mature mode of artistic expression. Having once belonged
to American collector Sarah Campbell Blaffer, who assembled one of the
most important collections of modern art in the United States during the
20th century, the painting has been included in several major exhibitions
of Rothko's oeuvre, including the traveling retrospective exhibition
organized by the National Gallery of Art in 1998.
- Frida Kahlo's 1949 self-portrait, Diego y yo (Diego and I) (
)
: Kahlo's final, fully realized 'bust' self-portrait completed before her
death in 1954, this enigmatic double portrait with the artist's husband,
Diego Rivera, is a quintessential example of her singular approach to
portraiture. Estimated at $30/50m, this intense and emotional work is
poised to shatter her current auction record of $8 million achieved in
2016. It may become the most valuable work of Latin American art ever
sold at auction. To be offered in the Modern Art Evening sale. See
dedicated release here (
).
- Claude Monet's magnificent Coin du bassin aux nymphéas (
)
from 1918, a late masterpiece a late masterpiece displaying the artist's
famous waterlilies in his Giverny garden, comes to the market for the
first time in nearly 25 years, carrying an estimate in excess of $40m.
It is joined in the Modern Art Evening Auction by a further three
paintings by Monet, including his seductive 1888 coastal scene,
Antibes vue de la Salis (
)
(estimate $10/15 million). Separate release on Coin du bassin aux nymphéas
available here (
).
Derek Parsons | Derek.Parsons@Sothebys.com | Adrienne DeGisi |
Adrienne.DeGisi@Sothebys.com
SOURCE: Sotheby's
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