Browse a selection of highlights from established and up-and-coming artists.

Sale Highlights 

From Warhol’s vibrant Mao portrait to Emmanuel Taku’s sister subjects clothed in matching florals, the following artworks exemplify fresh perspectives on one of the oldest art historical genres.

Go Figure: Portraits Reimagined 

Spanning John Chamberlain’s characteristic painted and chrome-plated steel to Nam June Paik’s use of a Tele-King cabinet and tv, the following artworks offer a sampling of the diverse media and forms embodied in this sale’s sculptural and installation-based artworks.

 Mass, Movement & Materiality

This meticulously selected collection showcases the works of leading artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary and algorithmic art.

Grails: Property from an Iconic Digital Art Collection

Discover a selection of figurative and surrealist-inspired artworks by the next generation of cutting-edge artists.

New Voices: Emerging Artists

We are thrilled to present a single-artist sequence of works from the practice of Lyndra Benglis, offering insight into the artist's dexterity to arrest gesture into form, push the boundaries of a diversity of media, and subvert the paradigms of Minimalism and Modernism throughout her oeuvre.

This single-artist sequence of works from the practice of Lynda Benglis offers insight into the artist's dexterity to arrest gesture into form, push the boundaries of a diversity of media, and subvert the paradigms of Minimalism and Modernism throughout her oeuvre.

In Focus: Lynda Benglis

New York

We are pleased to present the July Discoveries sales, which bring together diverse artworks of various media, regions and eras from each of Sotheby’s Fine Art Departments in an exciting sale context. The sales encompass paintings, prints, photographs, digital art and sculptures from the last 150 years. Modern Discoveries focuses on early Impressionism through ground-breaking Abstract Expressionism. Contemporary Discoveries focuses on artwork from the 1960s to today. This sale series is designed with the collector of today in mind: both emerging buyers, who have no reason to limit the scope of their collections, as well as those connoisseurs whose collections already transcend traditional categories.

AVP, Head of Modern and Contemporary Discoveries

Rachel C. Nelson

Associate Specialist, Contemporary Art

Keith Lebel

Cataloguer, Contemporary Art Online

Eva Farrell

Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary Art

Caroline Yarbrough

Associate Cataloguer, Prints

Yasmeen Sabet

Assistant Vice President | Senior Specialist

Aimee Pflieger

Pre-Sale Experience Coordinator, Contemporary Art Online

Montserrat Palacios

Meet our Specialists

The Modern Discoveries auction will open for bidding on Monday, July 10th, and lots will close in succession on Thursday, July 20th. Kindly note, the highlights exhibition will open at our York Avenue galleries on Tuesday, July 11th.

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