NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art Departments will present New York Fall Marquee Week. This highly anticipated series of sales features exemplary works by leading icons of the 20th and 21st centuries and will take place live in Christie's historic Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of Manhattan. The week begins evening of Monday, November 17th with The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis, immediately followed by the 20th Century Evening Sale. Auctions continue Tuesday, November 18th, with the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sales, followed by the week's second evening sale on Wednesday, November 19th, the 21st Century Evening Sale Featuring Works from the Edlis | Neeson Collection. Live sales continue Thursday, November 20th, with the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale, and the week concludes with Picasso Ceramics online closing Friday, November 21st. The exhibition will be free and open to the public, on view beginning Friday, November 7th. New York's Fall Marquee Week sales will build on the momentum generated by phenomenal results for Christie's 20/21 globally, with sales two weeks ago in London generating nearly $190 million, up 23% year-on-year with more than half of the lots selling above high estimate, followed by last week's sales in Paris totaling more than $107 million, up 16% year-on-year, with a wealth of new auction records established in France.

The inaugural sale of the week, The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis presents a selection of masterpieces brilliantly reflecting the evolution of modernism in 18 lots, with leading examples by Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró. This exceptional collection was assembled over the course of more than 50 years by Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis, guided by a shared passion for learning and intellectual rigor.

Immediately following on Monday night, the 20th Century Evening Sale is a richly textured compilation of the most highly prized masterpieces from masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Across the 62-lot sale are best-in-class objects by canonical legends including David Hockney, Claude Monet, Fernand Léger, Richard Diebenkorn, Lucian Freud, Alexander Calder, Joan Mitchell, J.M.W. Turner, Marc Chagall, John Singer Sargent, and many more. Exceptional offerings hail from the most esteemed private and institutional collections from around the world. including: Elaine: The Collection of Elaine Wynn, Birth of the Modern: The Arnold and Joan Saltzman Collection, Property from the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections, In Pursuit of Light: The Collection of Carol and Terry Wall, and Property from the Bill and Dorothy Fisher Collection Sold to Benefit The Community of Marshalltown, Iowa.

The 21st Century Evening Sale Featuring Works from the Edlis | Neeson Collection, taking place on Wednesday, is the second and final evening sale of the week. The sale comprises 44 works from a diverse group of post-war and contemporary artists, led by a monumental canvas by Christopher Wool. The sale is foregrounded by the Edlis | Neeson Collection, a superb selection of art and design from one of the most important contemporary art collections of the twenty-first century.