Browse a selection of highlights from established and emerging artists.

Sale Highlights

This season, Sotheby’s is thrilled to offer a selection of artwork from an important East Coast collection. Hard edges, clean lines, and rich colors from diverse media form the foundation of this distinctive and elegant collection. Featuring paintings by Jules Olitski and John McLaughlin and photography by Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe, this is From Line to Lens: Minimalism and Photography from an Important East Coast Collection.

Minimalism and Photography from an Important East Coast Collection

From Line to Lens

Gestural, Drip, Stain, and Saturation describe the explorations of color in this sale.

Vertigo of Color

Explore highlights from the personal collection of Martha White (1932-2023) the Louisville, Kentucky gallerist whose legacy lives on through her discerning eye and passion for Contemporary Art.

The Collection of Martha White

A Caracas-native, Solita Cohen is an avid collector and patron of Latin American art who founded the Misol Foundation for the Arts in order to support curators and young artists throughout Latin America. Spanning diverse media and the broad geography of the region, Cohen's carefully-assembled collection offers an outstanding selection of avant-garde voices from Latin America.

The Solita Cohen Collection of Contemporary Art from Latin America

Abstraction and Conceptual Works

Seedphrase has been actively investing in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology since early 2013. By the time digital art caught his attention in 2018, he was already receptive to the concept of digital ownership. However, it wasn’t until 2020, amidst the excitement generated by artists such as Beeple on the Nifty Gateway platform, that his interest in digital art truly flourished. This led him down a path of exploration and enthusiasm reminiscent of his initial discovery of Bitcoin. Seedphrase’s strategy initially focused on acquiring culturally significant pieces from trailblazing artists in the digital art sphere, including XCOPY, Hackatao, and Coldie. Since then, he has committed to championing and advocating for digital art, all while building one of the most substantial private collections of digital artwork.

From the Avant-Garde Collection of Seedphrase

This meticulously selected collection of generative artworks showcases the talent of leading artists who are pushing the boundaries of algorithmic art.

Exploring Generative Art

New York

AVP | Head of Modern and Contemporary Discoveries

Rachel C. Nelson

Associate Specialist, Contemporary Art

Keith Lebel

Cataloguer, Contemporary Art

Eva Farrell

Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary Art

Caroline Yarbrough

Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary & Modern Art

Helen Condo

Pre-Sale Experience Coordinator, Contemporary Art

Montserrat Palacios

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23 February–5 March 2024 | 10:00 AM EST | New York

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We are pleased to present the March 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.