New York – Christie’s continues to expand its online-only auction calendar with new sale offerings devoted to 20^th Century art. The new sales for May and June, including several new curated themed sales, will feature Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art as well as Photographs and 20^th Century Design.

In the Post-War and Contemporary Art category are Vice and Virtue, two dynamic themed sales that thoughtfully touch upon our collective reality during these disrupted times. In the Impressionist and Modern Art category, a dedicated sale of Picasso Ceramics, a perennial favorite of collectors globally, will precede two new themed sales La Vie en Rose and Form and Fantasy which explore the exuberance of landscape and portraiture, and map the course of the Avant-Garde through abstraction, respectively.

An expanded roster of dedicated Photography sales will survey the history of the medium, with From Pictorialism into Modernism: 80 Years of Photography in early May followed by the dedicated sale Ansel Adams and the American West, Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography. Additional various-owner sales of 20^th Century Design (Making Space: Design Online), Photographs, and Post-War and Contemporary Art are scheduled throughout the month, offering exceptional works at varying price points, to appeal to a broad range of collectors.

Opening Thursday April 30 for bidding, Christie’s First Open Sale features an important fundraising opportunity: Carrie Mae Weems’ Change Requires 2020 Vision, 2020 ($20,000-30,000). The proceeds of this sale will support the Center for Refugee Services and their partner arts collective House of Trees, both located in San Antonio Texas. Carrie Mae Weems’ striking felt banner speaks directly to our sociopolitical moment, inspiring hope for positive change at a time of uncertainty. The handmade work was fabricated in collaboration with female refugee fabricators residing in Texas as part of arts’ collective House of Trees’ 2017 Word on the Street banner project. Weems’ bold and visionary statement originally referenced the potential for intersectional change in America’s 2020 Presidential Election year. In the midst of COVID-19 and potential border closings, Weems’ handcrafted felt banner has predicted a sociocultural change in 2020 beyond borders, one we are all simultaneously experiencing on a global scale. Weems critically reminds us to stay focused on our vision for empathy and community-building and that ultimately Change is possible.