NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the fall season of Latin American Art with the live auction taking place November 22-23 and an online sale running November 16 – December 1. Combined, the sales include nearly 300 lots and is expected to realize in excess of $30 million, making it one of the highest valued Latin American auctions to-date at Christie’s. Featured are five notable private collections, including Property from the Lewin Family Collection; CUBA MODERNA: Masterworks from a Private Collection; Property from the Collection of Ruth and Jerome Siegel; Property from the Private Art Collection of Marta and Plácido Domingo; and Property from the Audain Collection, Vancouver. Works from the live auction will be on view November 18-22, with the online sale preview open through November 29.

CUBA MODERNA: Masterworks from a Private Collection, is an unprecedented single-owner collection of modern and contemporary Cuban art of nearly forty works that span from the historical vanguardia through modern masters, artists that experimented in abstraction and Surrealism, and contemporary painters. The collection is led by Wifredo Lam’s Sur les traces (Transformation), painted in 1945 (estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000), and Mariano Rodriguez’s Pelea de gallos, painted in 1942 (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000).

Also highlighting the sale are works by distinguished Mexican artists, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957), with exceptional provenance. From The Lewin Family Collection comes Rufino Tamayo's Sandías (Watermelons), painted in 1969 (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000); from The Private Art Collection of Marta and Plácido Domingo is Tamayo’s Tierra quemada, painted in 1951 (estimate: $500,000-700,000); and from the Audain Collection is Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Niña con vestido rosa, painted in 1930 (estimate: $500,000-700,000).

Fernando Botero (b. 1932) has strong representation with over ten works, led by his large-scale oil-on-canvas, A Family, painted in 1997 (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000), from The Collection of Ruth and Jerome Siegel. The family was the subject “par excellence” for Botero, for its formal possibilities and historical resonance. This work boasts a carefully calibrated palette and a grouping of his iconic figures around a formidable matriarch figure.

Also highlighting the sale is Matta (1911-2002), Dar a la luz un mundo, painted in 1960 (estimate: $500,000-700,000) and Joaquín Torres-García (1874-1949), Port of New York, painted in 1923 ($300,000-400,000).

Featured contemporary works include Sergio Camargo (1930-1990), Untitled (Relief No. 325), executed in 1970 (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000); Pablo Atchugarry (b. 1954), Untitled, executed in 2015 (estimate: $150,000-200,000); and Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961), Deng Haag – Praha, painted in 1989 ($600,000-800,000).