The extraordinary Collection of Chara Schreyer traces the evolution of Contemporary Art history at nearly every critical juncture, and it can be attributed to none other than her own visionary and tasteful eye.

The extraordinary collection traces the evolution of Contemporary Art history at nearly every critical juncture, and it can be attributed to none other than her own visionary and tasteful eye.

ART HOUSE: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Presenting a magnificent vista of variegated abstraction and saturated hue, Abstraktes Bild from 1997 is an extraordinary exemplar of Gerhard Richter’s iconic Abstrakte Bilder, a series of paintings widely recognized as the preeminent venture in abstract art of the last fifty years.

Gerhard Richter: Abstraktes Bild

Over 45 years of breaking new ground for artists, John Cheim has assembled a thoughtful personal collection which reflects an intense love and appreciation from the very artists themselves.

Over 45 years of breaking new ground for artists, John Cheim has assembled a thoughtful personal collection which reflects an intense love and appreciation from the very artists themselves.

A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Headlined by the monumental Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part II), these highlights by the legendary Jean-Michel Basquiat reveal the key tenets of his practice, from his iconographic obsession with heroes to his gestural depictions of anatomical features.

Headlined by the monumental Self-Portrait as a Heel (Part II), these highlights by the legendary Jean-Michel Basquiat reveal the key tenets of his practice, from his iconographic obsession with heroes to his gestural depictions of anatomical features.

 Jean-Michel Basquiat's Monumental Self-Portrait

Immediately arresting and emanating intense energy, Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio epitomizes the very essence of Lucio Fontana’s iconic artistic practice.

Lucio Fontana: La fine di Dio 

Sanford and the late Jeanne Robertson, ardent advocates for education, psychiatric care, and the arts, embarked on their art collection journey in the mid-1970s.

The Sanford & Late Jeanne Robertson Collection 

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The Contemporary Evening Sale in November 2023 will feature artworks which capture the seismic shifts that occurred in art in the latter half of the 20th Century. Beginning with Post-War abstraction in America and Europe, through to Color-Field painting, Minimalism and the Pop Art movement, and into the critical postmodern inquiries of the 1980s and 1990s, this radical new mode of art-making fundamentally altered the course of art history, laying the foundations for the art movements which would shape the next fifty years across the globe. Spotlighting these developments within a unified platform, the masterworks of the Contemporary Art Evening Sale call into focus the plurality of visions, identities, and artistic innovations that reshaped the trajectory of art history as we know it today.

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