T his year’s New York Sales — Sotheby’s biggest auctions of the season — are now on public view before auction week begins later this month. In the photos above, see highlights from across six sales and get a glimpse behind the scenes as the works of art are prepare✱d for display.
On 16 May, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Macklowe Collection returns to the block following the peerless collection’s record-setting November auction. Highlights this time include 168开奖官方开奖🐟网站查询:a magnificent, crepuscular Mark Rothko, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:an epic seascape by Gerhard Richter and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:an ܫiconic self-portrait byღ Pop icon Andy Warhol.
168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Five more auctions, presented in partnership with CELINE, round out the week, which will see modern and contemporary masterworks from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Just a few of the top lots include 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:one of Claude Monet’s only pain꧟tings from Venice, a monu𝓡mental painting of incisive social critique by Kerry James Marshall, the triumphant finale to Francis Bacon’s seminal “Pope”ꦰ paintings and a groundbreaking, uninhibited portra🔴yal🦄 of Pablo Picasso’s muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.
Photography by Julian Cassady for Sotheby’s.
