Highlights on View in New York

Anonymous
Lake Sentani Sculpture of a Female Ancestor, 1780–1820

wood
H. 47 ¼ in. (1 20 cm.)

Sotheby's Parke Bernet New York, April 29, 1966, lot 260
Sold for $6,000

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Francis Bacon
Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1965

oil on canvas, each: 14 × 12 in. (35.5 × 30.5 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 12, 2003, lot 13
Estimate $2,500,000 - 3,500,000
Sold for $3,816,000

YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taiwan

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Banksy
Girl Without Balloon, 2018

spray paint and acrylic on canvas remote-controlled shredding, in artists frame, 60 × 30 ⅞ × 7 in. (142 × 78 × 18 cm.)

Sotheby’s London, October 5, 2018, lot 67
Estimate ￡200,000 - 300,000 ($262,088 - 393,133)
Sold for ￡1,042,000 ($1,365,482)

Sotheby’s London, October 14, 2021, lot 7
Estimate ￡4,000,000 - 6,000,000 ($5,474,203 - 8,211,304)
Sold for ￡18,582,000 ($25,430,410)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1982

acrylic, spray paint, and oil stick on canvas, 72 ⅛ × 68 ⅛ in. (183.2 × 173 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, May 18, 2017, lot 24
Sold for $110,487,500

Made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin

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Salvador Dalí
Gradiva, 1931

oil on copper
8⅛ × 6⅛ in. (20.6 × 1 5.5 cm.)

Sotheby's London, February 28, 2018, lot 33
Estimate £1,200,000–1,800,000 ($1,654,716–2,482,074)
Sold for £2,691,250 ($3,711,045)

YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taiwan

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Helen Frankenthaler
Saturn Revisited, 1964

acrylic on canvas
84 × 53 in. (213.3 × 134.6 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, May 12, 2015, lot 56
Estimate $600,000–800,000
Sold for $2,830,000

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Barkley Hendricks
The Way You Look Tonight/Diagonal Graciousness, circa 1977

oil, acrylic and white gold leaf on linen
48 × 36 in. (1 21 .9 × 91 .4 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, May 19, 2017 , lot 188
Estimate $200,000–300,000
Sold for $960,500

Private Collection, New York

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Hermès
The Original Birkin Crafted for Jane Birkin, 1985

Black leather box with brass hardware
10 ⅝ × 14 ⅛ × 8 in. (27 × 36 × 21 cm.)

Sotheby's Paris, July 10, 2025, lot 8
Sold for €8,582,500 ($10,100,000)

Valuence Japan Inc.

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David Hockney
The Splash, 1966

acrylic on canvas
72 × 72 in. (183 cm × 183 cm.)

Sotheby’s London, July 5, 1973, lot 20
Sold for £25,000 ($63,000)

Sotheby’s London, June 21, 2006, lot 8
Estimate £2,200,000–3,000,000 ($4,074,074–5,555,555)
Sold for £2,920,000 ($5,407,407)

Sotheby’s London, February 11, 2020, lot 16
Estimate £20,000,000–30,000,000 ($25,883,266–38,824,900)
Sold for £23,117,000 ($29,917,174)

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Jasper Johns
False Start, 1959

oil on canvas, 67 ½ × 53 ⅛ in. (171.5 × 134.9 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 11, 1988, lot 34
Estimate $4,000,000–5,000,000
Sold for $17,050,000

Made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin

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Frida Kahlo
Autorretrato con chango y loro, 1942

oil on Masonite
21 ½ × 17 in. (54.6 × 43.2 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, May 17, 1995, lot 5
Estimate $2,500,000–3,000,000
Sold for $3,192,500

Colección Malba. Museo de Arte Latino americano de Buenos Aires

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Bhupen Khakhar
Two Men in Benares, 1982

oil on canvas
63 × 63 in. (160 × 160 cm.)

Sotheby’s London, June 10, 2019, lot 12
Estimate £450,000–600,000 ($580,500–774,000)
Sold for £2,535,000 ($3,270,150)

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Gustav Klimt
Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), 1917-18

oil on canvas
39 ½ × 39 ½ in. (100.2 × 100.2 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, May 11, 1994, lot 44
Sold for $11,662,500

Sotheby’s London, June 27, 2023, lot 125
Sold for £85,305,800 ($108,780,672)

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Willem de Kooning
Interchange, 1955

oil on canvas, 79 × 69 in. (200.7 × 175.3 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 8, 1989, lot 16
Estimate $4,000,000–6,000,000
Sold for $20,680,000

Made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin

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Joan Mitchell
King of Spades, 1956

oil on canvas
91 × 78 ½ in. (231.1 × 199.4 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 9, 2004, lot 43
Estimate $750,000–1,000,000
Sold for $2,696,000

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Piet Mondrian
Composition No. II, 1930

oil on canvas, 20⅛ × 20⅛ in. (51 × 51 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 14, 2022, lot 105
Sold for $51,000,000

YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taiwan

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Angelo Morbelli
In Risaia (In the Rice Fields), 1901

oil on canvas
72 × 51 ¼ in. (1 82.9 × 1 30.2 cm.)

Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, January 26, 1 979, lot 127
Estimate $30,000–40,000
Sold for $57,500

Sotheby's New York, May 24, 1995, lot 206
Estimate $700,000–900,000
Sold for $2,202,500

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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Petunia and White Morning Glory I, 1926

oil on canvas
30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91 .4 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, May 19, 2010, lot 32
Estimate $2,000,000–3,000,000
Sold for $4,114,500

Private Collection

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Samuel Palmer
A Church with a Boat and Sheep, circa 1831

pen and brown ink and wash heightened with scratching out
7¼× 5⅜ in. (1 8.3 × 1 3.7 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, January 31, 2018, lot 13
Estimate $250,000–350,000
Sold for $2,415,000

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Gerhard Richter
Zwei Kerzen (Two Candles), 1982

oil on canvas, 55 × 55 in. (140 × 140 cm.)

Sotheby’s Private Sales

YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taiwan

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John Singer Sargent
Group with Parasols (A Siesta), 1905

oil on canvas, 21 ¾ × 28 in. (55.2 × 70.8 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, December 1, 2004, lot 7
Estimate $9,000,000–12,000,000
Sold for $23,528,000

The Middleton Family Collection

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Clyfford Still
1949-A-No.1, 1949

oil on canvas, 93 × 79 in. (236.2 × 200.7 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, November 9, 2011, lot 11
Estimate $25,000,000–35,000,000
Sold for $61,682,500

The Middleton Family Collection

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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Medusa Pendant Necklace, 1904

gold, opal, demantoid garnet, colored stone
L. 1 5 in. (38.1 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, December 7, 2021 , lot 171

Estimate $100,000–200,000
Sold for $3,650,000

Tiffany & Co. Archives Collection

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Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe (twenty times), 1962

acrylic, silkscreen ink and graphite on canvas
76¾ × 44⅞ in. (195 × 11 4 cm.)

Sotheby's New York, November 10, 1988, lot 52
Estimate $1,250,000–1,750,000
Sold for $3,960,000

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Andy Warhol
Shot Orange Marilyn, 1964

synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas, 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm.)

Sotheby’s New York, May 14, 1998, lot 16
Estimate $4,000,000–6,000,000
Sold for $17,327,500

Made possible by Kenneth C. Griffin

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