NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced that the fall sale of Latin American Art, November 20 – 21, will offer 20 exceptional works by some of today’s leading Brazilian artists, from the Brazil Golden Art Collection, Brazil’s first private fund dedicated to art. The present selection brings together a sampling of this outstanding collection with works by many of the key artists responsible for the prestige and visibility enjoyed by contemporary Brazilian art today, at home and abroad.

Highlights from the collection include:

· Adriana Varejão (b. 1964) Espelho D'Água, 2008, (estimate: $300,000-500,000). One of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists, Varejão’s work challenges the conventions of painting while replete with cultural and historical memories intrinsically linked to the impact of the Baroque in Brazil. In Espelho d’Água the traditional Portuguese derived blue and white azulejo is transformed into a virtual tidal wave, a potent symbol of water that both seduces and envelops the viewer. The crackled, fractured surfaces and eroded edges simultaneously suggest destruction and transformation—potent symbols of transculturation and resistance.

· Luiz Zerbini (b. 1959), A Praça, 1985, (estimate: $80,000-120,000). Zerbini is a painter’s painter, who first emerged within the generational “return to painting” of the 1980s, centered in Rio de Janeiro and defined by the landmark 1984 exhibition, Como vai você Geração 80? (How Are You Doing, ‘80s Generation?). Zerbini has written, “The task of my work, the thing that I wanted to accomplish with my work was to make people feel, when looking at a painting, what I felt when walking down the street.” A Praça synthesizes the city’s swirling atmospherics, vividly commingling its colors, sounds, and movements. Not grounded by the presence of a horizon line, the figures appear suspended in space and time, their bodies cropped by the bottom edge of the painting. A colorful cacophony, the painting registers the ambient sounds of the plaza: the splashing of the water fountain; the noise of the street musicians, playing trumpet, clarinet, and drum; the silence of the water lilies.