NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the 20th Century Evening Sale, on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 7PM live in Christie’s Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of New York City. Taking place during the Spring Marquee Week, this sale celebrates the most significant artistic movements throughout the entirety of the twentieth century, through the Impressionist, Modern, and Post-War eras. The sale features an array of spectacular highlights that represent a range of groundbreaking artists across genres and mediums, including Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Rene Magritte, and more.
The top lot of the sale is Vincent Van Gogh’s Coin de jardin avec papillons, a luminous depiction of a flower bed in the public gardens at Asnières, a suburban town on the Seine to the northwest of Paris (estimate: $28,000,000– 35,000,000). Additional leading highlights include Andy Warhol’s Flowers, the only 82-inch ‘Flowers’ where all four flowers are painted in Day Glo paint and one of just three ‘Flowers’ in the 82-inch square scale included in the landmark Leo Castelli 1964 exhibition, and Femme au chapeau assise, an exemplary portrait by Pablo Picasso painted in 1971, demonstrative of the iconic artist’s enduring vitality. Both works are estimated to realize $20,000,000 – 30,000,000.
The sale also features two exquisite examples by Impressionist master Claude Monet, the first sold from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Heirs of Ethel B. Atha and the second from the Collection of Fritz and Lucy Jewett. Christie’s is particularly honored to offer these works as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition.
Across the sale are a number of exceptional collections, including The Collection of Norman & Lyn Lear, Property from the Collection of Mary & John Pappajohn, Surrealist Dream: The Shirley Ann and Frank Wozencraft Collection, Vital Line: A New York Collection, and Property from the Collection of the Viennese Cabaret And Film Star Fritz Grünbaum. In total, across the 64 exemplary lots, the sale is estimated to achieve $340 million – 500 million.
The full selection of works on offer in the sale will be on view at Christie’s New York in an exhibition free and open to the public beginning May 4, 2024 until May 16, 2024.
