Painted in 1910, 
 
 <a class="Link" href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-contemporary-evening-auction/murnau-mit-kirche-ii-murnau-with-church-ii-2">Murnau mit Kirche II</a>
 
 marks Kandinsky’s breakthrough into the abstract style that would underpin the rest of his career. &nbsp;

Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau with Church II), 1910

Property from the Collection of Johanna Margarete and Siegbert Stern

Wassily Kandinsky

From 1986, Gerhard Richter's sublime 
 
 <a class="Link" href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-contemporary-evening-auction/abstraktes-bild-2">Abstraktes Bild</a>
 
 is a monumental example from the most crucial year of the artist's career.

Property from a Private American Collection

Gerhard Richter

Dance on the Beach is a monumental realisation of Munch’s artistic vision, capturing all the expressive potential of the ‘modern life of the soul.’

Dans på stranden (Reinhardt-frisen) - Dance on the Beach (The Reinhardt Frieze), 1906-07

Edvard Munch

Executed in 1997, 
 
 <a class="Link" href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/modern-contemporary-evening-auction/ib-reading">Ib Reading</a>
 
 is testament to the superlative power of Lucian Freud’s preoccupation with the single-figure portrait that sits at the very heart of his celebrated and dynamic oeuvre.

Property from an Important Private Collection

Lucian Freud

(Women) Artists

London

Senior Director | Head of Evening Sale, Contemporary Art

Emma Baker

Senior Director | Head of Evening Sale, Impressionist & Modern Art

Thomas Boyd-Bowman

Senior Director | Senior Specialist, Contemporary Art

Tom Eddison

Senior Director | European Head of Contemporary Art

James Sevier

EVP | Chairman, Worldwide Head of Impressionist and Modern Art

Helena Newman

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Beginning with the innovations of the Impressionists, Sotheby’s Modern &amp; Contemporary Evening Auction spans the birth of Modernism in the early twentieth century through to the evolution of Abstraction and Pop Art. Highlights include one of the most significant paintings by Kandinsky ever to come to market and Gerhard Richter's sublime Abstraktes Bild from 1986, a monumental example from the most crucial year of the artist's career. Alongside these works, paintings by Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol encompass over a century of pioneering artistic production.