News-Antique.com - Oct 29,2009 - Media Preview of Sotheby’s November 2009 Sales of Impressionist, Modern And Contemporary Art
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9 am
WHAT: Media preview for Sotheby’s fall 2009 sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary
Art, including:
Impressionist & Modern Art
• Pablo Picasso’s monumental Buste d’homme from October 1969 (est. $8/12 million)
• Alberto Giacometti’s iconic Homme qui chavire, 1950 (est. $8/12 million)
• Kees van Dongen’s powerful masterwork - Jeune Arabe (est. $7/10 million)
Contemporary Art
• Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece from his first series of silkscreened paintings - 200 One Dollar Bills
(est. $8/12 million)
• Willem de Kooning’s Untitled XV from the collection of Mary Schiller Myers and Louis S. Myers, noted
American collectors and arts benefactors (est. $5/7 million)
• David Hockney’s California Art Collector, from his first, momentous visit to Los Angeles in 1964 (est. $5/7
million)
WHO: Emmanuel Di-Donna & Simon Shaw, Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Tobias Meyer, Alex Rotter & Anthony Grant, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art
WHEN: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9 am, sharp
WHERE: Sotheby’s New York, 1334 York Avenue (@72nd Street)
EXHIBITION: October 30, 2009 through noon on November 4, 2009
AUCTIONS: Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale: November 4, 2009 Contemporary Art Evening Sale: November 11, 2009
RSVP: Sotheby’s Press Office, 212 606 7176
Requests to attend either evening sale must be made to Sotheby’s Press Office
