The Triumph of Painting: The Steven & Ann Ames Collection

New York | November 2016

For more than 25 years, two deeply connected people searched for the best art of their time. Together, Steven and Ann Ames assembled masterpieces by Robert Ryman, Georg Baselitz, Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and others with a keen and critical eye. Watch as Lisa Dennison, Chairman, North and South America, Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman, Global Fine Arts and Allan Schwartzman, Chairman, Global Fine Arts, discuss this remarkable collection of paintings, which leads Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction on 17 – 18 November in New York. 

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