AUCTION PREMIERE: Highlights from Sothebys New York Modern Evening Auction

Presented in partnership with CELINE, the May 2025 Modern Evening Auction will feature artworks that capture the spirit of artists working around the globe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who dared to challenge established norms of artistic practice to create a new and wholly modern vision of art. Tracing the historic throughlines and cross-continental dialogues between artists working across Impressionism, Surrealism and Cubism into Abstract Expressionism and beyond, the Modern Evening Auction will spotlight these critical developments of the last 150 years, uniting those masterworks that define art history as we know it today.

0:00 Introduction
2:25 Figure-germe dite l'après-midinette by Jean Arp
7:06 Sans titre by Jean Arp
8:37 Nature morte by Robert Delaunay
10:53 Flux et reflux by František Kupka
14:32 Formes flasques by František Kupka
16:00 La Jeune fille au bouquet by Fernand Léger
16:50 Femme debout (Poseuse I) by Alberto Giacometti
22:18 Paulette by Alexander Calder
28:15 Tête d’homme by Pablo Picasso
30:56 La Bonne aventure by René Magritte
32:05 La Traversée difficile by René Magritte
36:35 Port-Coton, Le Lion by Claude Monet
38:46 Saint-Georges. Couchant (Venise) by Paul Signac
40:05 Blé et arbres (Le Champ de blé) (recto); Portrait de Félix Fénéon (verso) by Georges Seurat
41:25 Tête classique by Pablo Picasso
43:35 Männlicher Akt im Profil nach rechts (Male Nude in Profile Facing Right) by Egon Schiele
45:08 Trompetenbläser I (Trumpeters I) by Lyonel Feininger
46:00 Anfang (Beginning) by Wassily Kandinsky
46:50 Am 3 by László Moholy-Nagy
48:35 Heinrich C. Hudtwalcker by Edvard Munch
50:36 Gewitterberg (Kapelle auf dem Kreuzberg bei Krumau) (Thunderstorm Mountain (Chapel on Kreuzberg near Krumau)) by Egon Schiele
51:10 Intérieur by Edgar Degas
51:53 Portrait de Madame Cézanne by Paul Cézanne
57:12 Poissons et coquillages by James Ensor
57:47 Woman in a Wood (recto); Boat on the Beach with Figures (verso) by Vincent Van Gogh
59:27 Église de Vernon, Soleil by Claude Monet
1:00:06 Le Bouquet d'anémones by Henri Matisse
1:02:06 Four Big Dots by Alexander Calder
1:03:25 Untitled by Mark Rothko
1:05:03 Tête de fumeur by Joan Miró
1:05:53 Two Figures in Dunes by Willem de Kooning
1:09:11 An Important Double-Pedestal Lamp for the Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois by Frank Lloyd Wright
1:20:45 Bleeding Heart I by Georgia O'Keeffe
1:21:41 Homme assis by Pablo Picasso
1:24:17 Le Peintre Tête de profil by Pablo Picasso
1:24:54 Leaves of a Plant by Georgia O'Keeffe
1:32:02 Berkeley #12 by Richard Diebenkorn
1:33:33 Le Baou de Saint-Jeannet by Marc Chagall
1:36:26 Maison à Juan-les-Pins by Pablo Picasso
1:37:12 L'Après-midi chômé by Jean Dubuffet
1:39:48 La Minotauromachie by Pablo Picasso
1:40:50 Instruction (The Bible Lesson) by Thomas Hart Benton
1:41:30 Gebeugter Akt, den linken Arm auf der Hüfte (recto); Nach vorn gebeugter weiblicher Akt (verso); (Nude Bending Over, Left Arm on Hip (recto)); (Female Nude Bending Forward (verso)) by Egon Schiele
1:42:08 Herbstmeer VII (Autumn Sea VII) by Emil Nolde
1:42:50 Cour de ferme à Eragny by Camille Pissarro
1:43:41 Mother and Child on Ladderback Chair by Henry Moore
1:44:20 Pierrot (Arlequin) by Julio González
1:44:48 Ritos extraños by Remedios Varo
1:45:35 Tête by Joan Miró
1:47:16 Seated Woman on Bench by Henry Moore
1:48:18 Three Elektras by Lynn Chadwick