Auction Highlights

Exceptional Works on Paper

Figuration and Representation

The Byron R. Meyer Collection is a remarkable testament to one of the Bay Area’s most discerning collectors and devoted patrons of the arts. Led by the rare and important 1966 Translation #16 by Jess and Cady Noland’s striking Cowboy Eating with Shoulder Hole from 1990, the collection also includes exceptional works by Richard Diebenkorn, Elizabeth Peyton, George Condo, Robert Ryman and Robert Arneson, among others. Spanning generations and movements, the collection reflects Meyer’s deep engagement with the creative pulse of his time. Beginning with the modernist precision of Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque #20 and continuing with a new generation, the collection reveals Meyer’s unwavering eye for quality and his ability to identify artists whose practice defined and expanded the language of postwar and contemporary art.

With Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer 

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

A Legacy Reimagined

A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Sculptural Wonders

Works from the Collection of Kamran Diba

New York

Tuesday 18 November 2025 10:00AM –5:00PM

Head of Contemporary Art Day Sale

Ashkan Baghestani

Specialist, Contemporary, Deputy Head of Contemporary Day Auction

Emily Miles

Specialist, Contemporary Art

Kathleen Hart

AVP, Specialist, Contemporary Day Auction

Alya Sama

Cataloguer, Contemporary Day Auction

James Pease

Head of Latin American Art

Anna Di Stasi

Senior Specialist, Photographs

Aimee Pflieger

Associate Specialist

Yasmeen Sabet

Pre-Sale Experience Coordinator, 20th Century Design

Virginia Eskridge

Client Accounts Receivable Manager, Contemporary Art

Olivia Hu

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Session 1

Session 2, A Legacy Reimagined: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein

Session 3

Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Auction in New York this November will present a dynamic selection of works spanning Post-War, Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist, and Contemporary movements, celebrating the artistic innovations that shaped the late 20th century and beyond. 

Contemporary Day Auction