AUCTION PREMIERE: Highlights from The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction | Sothebys

The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction in May 2025 featured 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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02:06 Stand Still by Danielle Mckinney
04:13 Poor Folk II by Mohammed Sami
05:52 Mpeketoni by Michael Armitage
08:24 Two Standing Broken Men by Rashid Johnson
11:36 That Was Then This Is Now by Ed Ruscha
13:10 Untitled by Laura Owens
14:15 Alpine Retreat 2 by Adrian Ghenie
15:41 Untitled by Ernst Yohji Jäger
18:07 across the place by Yu Nishimura
20:10 Untitled (Love for Sale) by Barbara Kruger
21:37 Alpha Group III by Jack Whitten
23:14 Untitled by Jean-Michel Basquiat
29:55 Nudes in Mirror (Study) by Roy Lichtenstein
31:58 Reflections: Art by Roy Lichtenstein
35:04 Bonsai Tree by Roy Lichtenstein
41:18 Still Life Tapestry (Study) by Roy Lichtenstein
42:53 Woman: Sunlight, Moonlight by Roy Lichtenstein
44:38 Untitled #11 by Agnes Martin
45:48 Adelante by Frank Stella
47:10 Abstraktes Bild by Gerhard Richter
52:25 Flowers by Andy Warhol
55:57 Butternut by John Chamberlain
57:33 Rigger by Robert Rauschenberg
58:33 Students and Books by Jacob Lawrence
59:33 August Petals by Lee Krasner
1:00:44 Herbert's Garden by Lynne Drexler
1:02:17 Alpenveilchen by Sigmar Polke
1:03:28 Fingermalerei - Akt by Georg Baselitz
1:04:24 Gravestone by Jean-Michel Basquiat
1:06:06 Mirror I by Roy Lichtenstein
1:07:05 Stretcher Frame with Cross Bars III by Roy Lichtenstein
1:11:03 Portrait Triptych (Studies) by Roy Lichtenstein
1:12:17 Atomic Landscape by Roy Lichtenstein
1:13:45 Smoker #25 by Tom Wesselmann
1:14:39 Baroque Egg with Bow by Jeff Koons
1:15:23 Untitled (Cowboy) by Richard Prince
1:17:07 Troupeau de Moutons de Laine by François-Xavier Lalanne
1:18:37 Untitled by Donald Judd