Jimmy Younger: An Appreciation

Highlights from the Collection

New York

Sotheby’s is delighted to present the collection of Jimmy Younger during Masters Week 2024. Assembled with conviction and care over several decades, the drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture, and works of decorative art that comprise the sale encapsulate the varied, and at times contradictory, artistic trends that defined European Mannerist and Baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Presented in partnership with:

Chairman | Executive Vice President | Co-Chairman, Old Master Paintings Worldwide

George Wachter

Senior Vice President | Head of Department, Old Master Paintings

Christopher Apostle

Senior Vice President | Head of Department

David Pollack

Vice President | Specialist, Director of International Strategy, Old Master Paintings

Calvine Harvey

Vice President | Specialist, Old Master Paintings

Elisabeth Lobkowicz

Assistant Vice President, Specialist | Old Master Paintings

Daria Rose Foner, PhD

Cataloguer | Old Master Paintings

Emma Woodberry

Senior Director | Head of Department, Old Master Drawings, Worldwide

Gregory Rubinstein

Consultant, Senior Specialist, Old Master Drawings

Cristiana Romalli

Vice President | Specialist, Old Master Drawings

Alexander Faber

Deputy Director, Specialist, Old Master Drawings

Claire Anderson

Senior Vice President | Co-Worldwide Head of Department, Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art

Margaret H Schwartz

Senior Vice President | Head of Department | European Furniture

Dennis Harrington

Vice President | Specialist | European Ceramics & Glass

Richard Hird

Senior Vice President | Head of Department, Silver

John D Ward

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Sotheby’s is delighted to present the collection of Jimmy Younger during Masters Week 2024. Assembled with conviction and care over several decades, the drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture, and works of decorative art that comprise the sale encapsulate the varied, and at times contradictory, artistic trends that defined European Mannerist and Baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Estate of Jimmy Younger

Saint Mary Magdalene

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Studies of a Reclining Woman and Two Seated Couples

Double-Sided Sheet of Studies: Recto: Studies of men on horseback and in combat, Hector's corpse dragged by Achilles's chariot, dogs and horses, with subsidiary studies of horses legs and the right leg and buttock of a man Verso: Studies of horses

Two Anchorites in a rocky landscape

Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans)

Head Study of a Bearded Man

A William and Mary Oyster-Veneered Walnut, Olivewood, Ebony, Fruitwood, Ivory and Green-Stained Bone Marquetry Cabinet on Stand, Circa 1690