Modern British & Irish Art

Overview

Our bi-annual Modern British & Irish Art sales are held in June and November. Our calendar of sales offer both consignors and collectors unrivalled contexts in which to sell and source modern British and Irish art. We are also pleased to conduct private sales throughout the year.

The passion and expertise of our specialists, combined with the global reach of our auctions, has consistently produced outstanding results and many auction records. The department also has a longstanding legacy of offering market-defining single owner collections. Major highlights over the last decade include the ground-breaking Evill/Frost Collection, 2011; Lowry: the A.J. Thompson Collection, 2014; Daughter of History: Mary Soames and the Legacy of Churchill, 2014; the international phenomenon Bowie/Collector, 2016; Howard Hodgkin: Portrait of the Artist, 2017; Yeats: The Family Collection, 2017 and The Colourists: Pictures from the Harrison Collection, 2018.

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Consignments

If you wish to enquire about the possibility of offering a work in one of Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art, Irish or Scottish Art sales, please click here.

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LONDON:
+44 (0)20 7293 6424
DUBLIN:
+353 1 644 0200
EDINBURGH:
+44 13 1558 7799

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