Masterworks by Willem de Kooning, Agnes Martin, Miyoko Ito, and Jadé Fadojutimi, among others, chart half a century of abstract painting. From de Kooning’s calligraphic pirouettes of paint to Myron Stout’s restrained and deliberate monochrome vocabulary, The Now and Contemporary Evening Sale captures the myriad interpretations of nonrepresentation in the last fifty years.

Works by Willem de Kooning, Agnes Martin, Miyoko Ito, and Jadé Fadojutimi, among others, chart half a century of abstract painting.

Annals of Abstraction

Presenting a retrospective of a Pop titan’s mature career, Sotheby’s is honored to offer a selection of works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein. Offering an intimate window into some of the works Roy and Dorothy kept for themselves, the Collection charts the artist’s rich and refined lexicon of self-referential motifs and art historical references.

Presenting a retrospective of a Pop titan’s mature career, Sotheby’s is honored to offer a selection of works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein.

Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein 

Roy’s Lichtensteins: Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein 

Provocative, propulsive masterworks by Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Kai Althoff, and Pol Taburet navigate modes of figuration. From Woman in Tub – a masterpiece example of Koons’ iconic Banality series – to Prince’s archetypal Nurse on Trial, the human body proves to be a continuous site for reimagination.

Provocative, propulsive masterworks by Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Kai Althoff, and Pol Taburet navigate modes of figuration.

Body Language

In December 2019, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian captivated the world in its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach. This November, the most talked-about artwork of the century is back to lead Sotheby’s The Now &amp; Contemporary Evening Auction.&nbsp;

In December 2019, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian captivated the world in its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach, making its anticipated return this November.

Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’

American artists engage with the signs, symbols, and aesthetic vernacular of the United States. From Ed Ruscha’s rhapsodic depiction of the star-spangled banner to Roy Lichtenstein’s collage of John F. Kennedy’s Oval Office, the country proved an unending source of inspiration.&nbsp;

American artists engage with the signs, symbols, and aesthetic vernacular of the United States.&nbsp;

America the Beautiful

Icons of postmodern America approach the aesthetics of hard-edged, grunge downtown across media and movement, spanning Minimalism to Neo-Expressionism. Richard Serra’s hot rolled steel and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s frenetic scrawls, among others, bespeak the language of urban cool and its endlessly iterative energy.&nbsp;

Spanning Minimalism to Neo-Expressionism, postmodern icons approach the aesthetics of hard-edged, grunge downtown across media and movement.

Heavy Metal

Contemporary artists offer fantastical visions of elements both natural and imagined. Whether it be Yayoi Kusama’s hypnotic, psychedelic manipulations of flora and fauna or Suzanne Jackson’s fluttering, aqueous figures, nature remains aptly generative past and present.

Contemporary artists offer fantastical visions of elements both natural and imagined.

Into the Wild

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VP | Head of Contemporary Marquee Auctions

Lucius Elliott

SVP | Head of Contemporary Art, Co-Head of Marquee Sales, Americas

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AVP, Specialist, Contemporary & The Now Evening Auctions

Carly Gamson

Cataloguer, Contemporary & The Now Evening Auctions

Serena Hildebrandt

Carolyn Kim

Cataloguer, Contemporary &amp; The Now Evening Auctions

Devon Mifflin

Pre-Sale Experience Coordinator, Contemporary Art

Abbey Flamm

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The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction in November 2024 will feature artworks which capture the seismic shifts that occurred in art in the latter half of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century. Beginning with the Pop Art movement and Minimalism, the critical postmodern inquiries of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the well-established and newly canonized artists working today. Spotlighting these developments within a unified platform, the masterworks of The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction call into focus the plurality of visions, identities, and artistic innovations that reshaped and continue to direct the trajectory of art history as we know it today.