– Records Set for Gustave Caillebotte, Tamara de Lempicka

and a Late Work by Pablo Picasso –

2 November 2011 – Sotheby’s New York, the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a

strong $199,804,500, well within the overall pre-sale estimate of $167.6/229.9 million and eclipsing the total

for the same sale in May 2011. The auction was 81.4% sold by lot, and saw a total of 39 works sell for over $1

million. Gustav Klimt’s Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) was the top lot of the sale,

achieving $40,402,500 after a prolonged bidding battle (est. in excess of $25 million*), and auction records

were set for Gustave Caillebotte, Tamara de Lempicka and Maxime Maufra.´”I have rarely felt a room as

energetic as tonight” said Tobias Meyer, auctioneer of the evening sale.

Save the date for this upcoming sale!

Auction includes American and European paintings and prints, antiquities, American and European  furniture, porcelain, silver and glass, as well as duck decoys, fishing and angling equiptment.

Swann Galleries invites you and a guest to an auction preview of Contemporary Art with a talk by ARTnews editor and publisher, Milton Esterow.

Also on view: American Art

Tuesday, November 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
talk begins at 6:30

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street, New York, NY

The November 2011 Latin American Sale will highlight a retrospective selection of works by the great Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo and the Venezuelan Kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto.

The cover lot, Tamayo’s vibrant Watermelon Slices, 1950, headlines the selection of this artist’s work in the sale. Watermelon Slices epitomizes one of Tamayo’s most recognized themes, which often served as a vehicle for an unparalleled use of color from this master of pigment. The reds, oranges, pinks and purples pulse throughout the composition giving the painting a mesmerizing glow. This boldness of color and the subsequent abstraction of figures is seen in the early 1928 Frutero y Dominó to the 1951 Tres personajes, and El Tragafuego, 1955.

Auction results online now at Sothebys.com