Celebrating William Louis-Dreyfus

Celebrating Color

Still Lifes

Drawings

8 under 8

New York

Following a successful single-owner auction in 2021, Sotheby’s New York is delighted to offer another exciting group of works from the illustrious William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections. Amassed over a period of more than 50 years and spanning time periods and continents, The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections are a testament to Louis-Dreyfus’s aesthetic intuition, curiosity and passion for collecting on a personal level. The Foundation Collection alone contains more than 3,500 works of art and is housed in a museum-quality space in Mount Kisco, New York. The Louis-Dreyfus Collections showcase artists with an interest in political commentary and social comedy, such as George Grosz, Red Grooms, and Antonio Seguí, as well as those working in the realm of amorphous and non-representative art, such as Sam Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Pincemin and Claes Oldenburg. Characterized by its recontextualization of known artists while giving voice to those who were unjustly underrepresented, including a focus on self-taught artists—the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections stand among the most progressive and wide-ranging in the United States. Among the highlights of the Louis-Dreyfus Collection are various works on paper by Alberto Giacometti, which exemplify the artist’s breadth in the medium. The auction is open for bidding until Tuesday, April 11th at 10am. Sale Number: N11326

Associate Specialist, Impressionist & Modern Art

Associate Cataloguer, Impressionist & Modern Art

Associate Specialist, Contemporary Art

Keith Lebel

Associate Cataloguer, American Art

Lucile Turnipseed

Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary Art

Caroline Yarbrough

Associate Cataloguer, Prints & Multiples

Yasmeen Sabet

Associate Cataloguer, Latin American Art

Isabel Rubio-Topete

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Following a successful single-owner auction in 2021, Sotheby’s New York is delighted to offer another exciting group of works from the illustrious William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections. Amassed over a period of more than 50 years and spanning time periods and continents, these works are a testament to Louis-Dreyfus’s aesthetic intuition, curiosity and passion for collecting on a personal level.

Giacometti to Oldenburg: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections