This October, Christie’s celebrates Frieze Week in London with four auctions of exceptional work from across the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction features major pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gerhard Richter, Pierre Soulages, Sigmar Polke, Yves Klein, Jonas Wood, Antony Gormley and Adrian Ghenie, while also introducing some newer names to the sale, such as Thomas Bayrle and Frank Bowling. Thinking Italian, the only sale exclusively dedicated to 20th-century Italian art at any auction house, spotlights superb works by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Salvatore Scarpitta, amongst others.

The Day Auction includes Andreas Gursky’s monumental rave crowdscape, May Day III, alongside a rich variety of works from the likes of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Nam June Paik, Cy Twombly, Georg Baselitz and Edmund de Waal.

Two outstanding private collections add extra colour to Frieze Week. Sold across both the Evening and Day Auctions, The Matthys-Colle Collection is among Europe’s most important and influential private collections of 20th-century art, with works ranging across Nouveau Réalisme and arte povera to surrealism and American minimalism.

The dedicated auction of The Jeremy Lancaster Collection is a chorus of vivid colour, radical form and brilliant innovation in post-war British painting, complemented by a stellar selection of European and American works. At the heart of the collection is a group of paintings by Howard Hodgkin, alongside works by Frank Auerbach, Philip Guston and Bridget Riley.

Explore the auctions in person at our King Street Galleries from 25 September.