Post-War and Contemporary Art

Evening Sale Highlights

Browse our special publications and read the stories behind these exceptional artworks

Featured Collections

Discover remarkable collections from the season, thoughtfully assembled by passionate collectors

  • The Mezzacappa Collection
  • At the heart of this collection is Lucian Freud’s The Brigadier. Like that picture, all of this collection connects the past and the present in a dramatic statement of the power of art
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Videos

  • From the Silver Screen to the Silkscreen

    Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns: the product of an obsession and a shared sweet shop

  • Lucian Freud’s The Brigadier

    Lucian Freud’s The Brigadier is a multi-layered observation of emotional being.

  • ‘The most important thing in composition is disparity’

    A closer look at Alexander Calder’s hanging mobile, Red and Yellow Forward, created in 1965

  • Louise Bourgeois’ Spider

    Vast, ominous and maternal in equal measure, Spider is a mammoth and enduring statement of autobiography

  • The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

    This unparalleled collection of post-war masters is a story of art and also New York

  • Holly Solomon: A Soho pioneer

    Filmed in 2001, an intimate discussion with the late gallerist and artist’s muse in which she discusses her 98 Green Street Loft performance space, the nascent Soho art scene and her role in Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting project

  • Holly Solomon: A Warhol portrait

    In this interview filmed in 2001, the leading contemporary art collector and founder of the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York tells the story behind her iconic, ‘pure Pop’ portrait of 1966

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From the Silver Screen to the Silkscreen

Lucian Freud’s The Brigadier

‘The most important thing in composition is disparity’

Louise Bourgeois’ Spider

The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

Holly Solomon: A Soho pioneer

Holly Solomon: A Warhol portrait

Special Features

  • Performing sculpture
  • An interview with the curators of a major new exhibition aiming to change how we look at the work of Alexander Calder
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Explore more of the New York Sales Week

From Impressionism to the art of today, this November, our sales week will feature works that have shaped the course of art history

  • The Artist's Muse
  • An unprecedented sale, offering a curated selection of works focusing on the artist’s muse—inspirations to some of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century
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