NEW YORK, NY.- On 25th and 26th November 2014 Sotheby’s New York Latin American Art Modern and Contemporary Evening sale will be led by Fernando Botero’s La casa de las gemelas Arias, one of the most significant works by the artist to appear at auction in over a decade. In addition the sale will include exceptional works by Rufino Tamayo and Brazilian artists Maria Martins, Mira Schendel, Sergio Camargo, and Cildo Meireles along with works by Venezuelan masters Armando Reverón, Gego, and Jesús Rafael Soto.

La casa de las gemelas Arias by Fernando Botero features no fewer than nine characters depicted in the artist’s signature style (est. $2/3 million). The complex narrative draws on the work of the Old Masters and is full of rich symbolic detail with art historical references to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Carpaccio’s Courtesans.

Mira Schendel’s Untitled, From The Series Droguinha (Little Nothings) comes from one of the artist’s most important series described by art historian Luis Pérez-Oramas as one of Schendel's "greatest bodies of paper works" (est. $400/600,000). The sculpture came about after Schendel invited her young daughter, Ada, and some local children into her studio and asked them to twist semi-transparent rice paper to create a series of soft sculptures. This example has been extensively exhibited including at Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Dibujo Sín Papel 85/8 by Gego appears at a time of increased interest in the Venezuelan neo-concrete artist (est. $250/350,000). The work was acquired by the current owners shortly after completion in 1985 and has remained in the same collection since.

The compelling Pescadores de Acapulco was painted at the very end of Diego Rivera's life in 1956 (est. $700/900,000). The work comes from a group of small scale oils painted in pastel colors depicting views onto Acapulco Bay.

Ofrenda de frutas is one of Rufino Tamayo’s most exuberant compositions (est. $2/3 million). Painted to celebrate 70 years of painting by the artist, the central figure carries a luminous still-life celebrating the abundant bounty of Mexico.

A further highlight is an Untitled bronze sculpture by the legendary Brazilian surrealist Maria Martins (est. $100/150,000). This auction will be only the second time this unique example of the artist’s wild abstraction will be seen in public.

Cildo Meireles's work is defined by the search for new meanings through active and participatory confrontation. Metros I seeks to question the parameters of time, space, logic and rationality, all systems invented to measure human experience (est. $175/225,000). Part of a landmark series by Brazil’s leading Conceptual artist, Metros I masterly redefines our understanding of reality by subverting our ability to measure our physical world and our place in it.