Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s is pleased to announce that it will offer Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection in a series of sales in New York through 2011. Assembled over several decades, the Collection offers both diversity and depth, holding important examples from Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary periods, with a special focus on Latin American art and American painting.
- Impressionist and Modern works from the Collection are led by Kees van Dongen’s Portrait de Mrs. Jean McKelvie Sclater-Booth, a prime example of the artist’s fashionable portraits of society Doyennes that synthesized all that was chic and desirable during the 1920s (est. $1/1.5 million, to be offered on 3 May).
- The Contemporary works in the Collection celebrate the various forms in which figuration thrived within the abstract idioms of the last half of the 20th century. Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop realism and bold graphics are joyously realized in both painting and sculpture with Two Paintings: Folded Sheets from 1983 (est. $1/1.5 million) and the 1986 bronze Surrealist Head (pictured left, est. $1.5/2 million, to be offered on 10 May).
- The American Paintings and Watercolors from the Collection are highlighted by Thomas Hart Benton’s Flood Disaster (Homecoming – Kaw Valley), a rare and archetypal work which depicts the aftermath of the 1951 flooding of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers (est. $800,000/1.2 million, to be offered on 19 May).
- The Latin American Art in the Collection is led by a remarkable group of works by the Colombian master Fernando Botero, which will be offered in a single-artist evening sale. Among the highlights from Fernando Botero: A Celebration will be the monumental 1992 bronze Man on a Horse ($800,000/1.2 million, to be offered on 25 May).
