First Look: Picasso, Miró, De Kooning and More On View in Hong Kong

Pablo Picasso, Le Repos, 1932
Estimate: $25,000,000-35,000,000

Picasso’s Le Repos dazzles in a bright palette of verdant greens, crimsons, whites and purples. Within the artist’s oeuvre sensual paintings of his sleeping lover and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, reign supreme as the emblems of love, sex and desire in twentieth-century art. The rank and uncomplicated avowal of Picasso’s intoxicating desire and passionate love for his ‘golden muse’ is particularly evident in this work.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
14 May | New York

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Pablo Picasso, Femme assise, 1949
Estimate: $6,000,000-8,000,000

Picasso’s Femme assise is comprised of a complex language of geometric arrangements that return to the fragmented pictorial forms associated with the artist’s revolutionary Cubist works. A hallmark subject in the artist’s oeuvre, the seated nude sits regally in her throne, looming large in the eyes of the both the artist and viewer.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
14 May | New York

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Joan Miró, Femme, oiseau, 1969-74
Estimate: $10,000,000-15,000,000

The frenetic expressiveness of Miró’s brushwork in Femme, oiseau is a poetic example of gestural abstraction at its most daring. The bold reds, vibrant ultramarine blues and black voids, coupled with the arresting nature of the work’s colossal scale, demonstrates the amplitude of expressive freedom and bold exuberance that characterized the mature period of Miró’s career.

Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
16 May | New York

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Willem de Kooning, Untitled VI, 1980
Estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000

Untitled VI explodes with color across this magnificent canvas, dating from a watershed moment when Willem de Kooning returned to painting following a period in which he had focused on sculpture. Executed in lush, sensuous brushstrokes, Untitled VI perfectly illustrates de Kooning’s deft mastery of oil paint at this particular moment in his career.

Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
16 May | New York

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Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Head in Landscape, 1976
Estimate: $7,000,000-10,000,000

Roy Lichtenstein’s Still Life With Head in Landscape features the artist’s iconic blonde girl set in a compressed space redolent with Surrealist symbolism. A paradigm of the artist’s celebrated Surrealist paintings, Still Life With Head in Landscape is one of few works from this series left in private hands, with many examples held in renowned institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, among others.

Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
16 May | New York

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969
Estimate: $7,000,000-10,000,000

Mark Rothko’s Untitled from 1969 is an archetype of the artist’s legendary color-field compositions. While much of Rothko’s late work is characterized by a darker palette, Untitled boasts a ground of brilliant red emerging from serene fields of white and a warm orange and represents the culmination of Rothko’s career-long pursuit of aesthetic transcendence through pure color and light.

Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
16 May | New York

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Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964
Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000

Andy Warhol’s Flowers from 1964 is a prime example from the artist’s Flower series. Executed in an intensely blue palette crisply rendered against a vibrant green background, Flowers is a brilliant example from this renowned body of work.

Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel
16 May | New York

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Barnett Newman, Galaxy, 1949

Barnett Newman’s Galaxy from 1949 is the first painting in which the artist featured two of his iconic and revolutionary ‘zips,’ the stylistic element that has come to define the artist’s output. Most recently, Galaxy was included in exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, Abstract Expressionism, the long-awaited show that celebrated Barnett Newman and his peers, including Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and David Smith, among others.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
16 May | New York

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