$1 BILLION WORTH OF ART ACROSS 7
SALES IN 1 WEEK - Unveiled Today in Sotheby's New York Galleries
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From The Legendary Macklowe Collection Through to 'The
Now' Auction, Dedicated to Today's Frontrunners
AUCTIONS 15-19 NOVEMBER
NEW
YORK, Nov. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 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
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