The November 9th auction of Contemporary Art in New York is highlighted by a rare and significant offering of four paintings by Clyfford Still, sold by the city of Denver to benefit the Clyfford Still Museum. The museum, which opens November 18, 2011, will permanently house the estate of the artist and his widow which encompass nearly 94% of the oeuvre of this founder of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Only 77 paintings by Clyfford Still are known to remain in private hands, so the four paintings to be offered through Sotheby’s (expected to realize over $50 million) are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an icon of 20th century art. Spanning the years 1940-1976, the selection of paintings traces the arc of the artist’s career from his early Surrealist period to the majestic abstractions of 1947-1949 that presage the expansive canvases of the 1970s.

Sat, 22 Oct 11 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Sun, 23 Oct 11 | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Mon, 24 Oct 11 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Tue, 25 Oct 11 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Leslie Hindman is now seeking consignments for their December 11th-12th Fine Art Auction. Modern and Contemporary Art | American and European Art, Old Master, Modern, Contemporary Prints and Photographs

Catalogues now online for both auctions

Join Sotheby’s specialists for an exclusive insight into the highlights of Italian Identity – an Important Private Collection.

Oliver Barker introduces the Contemporary Art Evening Auction which will be held in London October 13th.

The Editions department at Phillips de Pury & Company offers prints and objects produced in an edition spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Modern and Contemporary printmakers come together under one artistically integrated catalogue several times a year. Our sophisticated curation of many different styles of works are cogently marketed through our dynamic and scholarly catalogue presentation.

Following the success of ‘The Cult of Beauty’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sotheby’s is delighted to be offering an important example of the work of the Aesthetic Movement’s most sophisticated exponents, Albert Joseph Moore. Waiting to Cross depicts three beautiful women in Grecian robes standing at a riverbank, one of whom glances over her shoulder at the viewer.

The winter sale also offers a striking painting by Edmund Blair Leighton, one of the finest painters of medieval romance. His Stitching the Standard shows a maiden with super-model looks sitting on the battlements of a tower. The Newlyn School is well represented in the sale, with two significant works by Walter Langley and a varied group of watercolours, oil paintings and a bronze by Henry Scott Tuke. Tuke’s Return from Fishing captures the artist’s love of Cornwall, its people and its traditions in a large painting that was owned by the famous Indian cricketer Ranjitsighi.

The sale also includes a wide variety of paintings, drawings and watercolours with pictures by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Archibald Thorburn, John William Godward, Arthur Elsley and William James Blacklock.