"A vision of exquisite beauty and devastating allure, Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Nude Sunbathing’ embodies the essence of confident female sensuality. The work is one of Lichtenstein’s greatest contributions to art history’s most celebrated subject: the female nude. Executed in 1995, 'Nude Sunbathing' is a major highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening sale on 16 May in New York."
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"Uptown and downtown merge as Sotheby’s brings highlights from the June 8 Master Paintings sale in New York to Fat Free Art, a street-art gallery on the Lower East Side. Sotheby’s has invited an internationally group of street artists to imagine highlights from the sale in their own mediums. Watch the video to discover their interpretations of the masters and explore the social commentary that rings true even when separated by centuries."
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"Featuring exceptionally rare blue and white porcelain vases, bowls and more, the fourteen lots being offered on 14 March in Ming: The Intervention of Imperial Taste illustrate the power and diplomacy of the ancient court. Watch the video to preview the extraordinary sale, a highlight of Sotheby's Asia Week sales in New York, and be sure to visit our New York galleries from 9–13 March to admire these ambitious designs in person."
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"Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 16 May features two paintings by pioneering artist Claude Monet. Marking two distinct moments within Monet’s trajectory, the works ‘Vétheuil’ and ‘Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas.’ Watch the video to see how his evolving technique influenced his work."
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"With its bright, primary colors and varied textures this example of Picasso's ‘Tête d’homme’ lives up to its regal history. Created for the artist’s groundbreaking exhibition at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, this large scale canvas commands immediate attention as a highlight of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sale on 18 May in New York. Watch the video to learn more about the techniques that produced this striking composition."
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"Watch highlights of the bidding battles that broke the auction record for Wassily Kandinsky, not once, but twice, in Sotheby’s June 2017 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London. The auction record was broken first by a major Expressionist painting, Murnau – Landschaft mit grünem Haus from 1909, which sold for £21 million / $26.4 million. That record was broken just six lots later by powerful abstract masterpiece Bild mit weissen Linien from 1913, which sold for £33 million / $41.6 million."
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"When this painting by Jan Sanders Van Hemessen arrived at Sotheby’s, specialists had trouble identifying the strangely dressed sitter. In this episode of The Costumist, Jonquil O’Reilly introduces court performer Elizabet and discusses her unusual garments and jewellery – clues that led to the discovery of her identity in advance of Sotheby’s Old Masters sale in London on 5 July 2017."
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"A friend of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and other great contemporary artists, Roy Newell is firmly rooted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but his name is largely unknown today. Ahead of Sotheby’s selling exhibition titled 'Roy Newell: Works from the Archive’ open from 5 May 2017 to 9 June 2017 in New York, Artist and friend Richard Dupont discusses Newell’s complex process."
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"Experience J.M.W. Turner’s celebrated masterpiece, Ehrenbreitstein, in a stunning new way. CGI animation takes you on a journey through the magisterial landscape as legendary English actor Steven Berkoff recites lines from Lord Byron’s epic poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Exhibited in 1835 at the Royal Academy alongside lines from the poem, Turner realises the vision of Byron’s world-weary hero as the travels down the River Rhine. Ehrenbreitstein is the highlight of Sotheby’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 5 July in London."
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"Discover how Joan Miró was inspired by the landscape of a French coastal town to create one of the most ground breaking contributions to modern art. Miró’s fabled Constellations series has been acclaimed as one of the most beautiful and poignant answers to the tragedy of the Second World War and inspired Alberto Giacometti to provide his own answer to the trauma of war. Giacometti’s unique bronze Grande Figure and Miró’s Femme et oiseaux are highlights of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 21 June."
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