The New York Sales at Sotheby’s this May will present a series of auctions showcasing masterworks spanning over a century of artistic production. The sales feature the major artistic movements of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, from the innovations of the Impressionists to the groundbreaking works by young and emerging artists working today.

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart Evening Auction is a thoughtfully assembled collection of Modern and Contemporary masterworks, encompassing some of the most significant examples created by the artists Robert Mnuchin championed during his life as a dealer, advisor and collector. Led by pivotal Abstract Expressionist masterworks by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, the works Robert and Adriana collected reflect a true continuity in vision and instinct. Presented as a standalone single-owner auction during Sotheby’s spring Marquee sales in New York, followed by selections in the Modern and Contemporary Day Auctions, Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart reflects Mnuchin’s inimitable sophistication of taste and indefatigable conviction when pursuing works of the highest quality.

The Modern Evening and Modern Day Auctions chart the production of the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, curating the historic throughlines, radical conceptual fissures and cross-continental dialogues of the last 150 years. From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, the Modern sales spotlight the very best examples of these critical aesthetic developments.

The Contemporary Evening Auction and Contemporary Day Auction extend this narrative to the present, featuring the seismic, paradigm-shifting artworks created during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Beginning with Pop Art and Minimalism through to the well-established and newly canonized artists working today, these sale platforms bring into focus the plurality of visions, identities and innovations that have reshaped and continue to direct the trajectory of art history as we know it.

Explore the top works, collections and stories of the season as they are announced and join us for The New York Sales exhibition and live-streamed auctions this May.