Art Market: Tidbits From Spring Auctions 2026 @ Sotheby`s New York

 (Drivebycuriosity) -  It`s May again and the world`s largest auction houses have their annual huge spring auctions in Manhattan. This post focuses on Sotheby`s (sothebys). As usual quality & quantity of the displayed art works were overwhelming and admission was free. I display here just my favorites, a very subjective selection.

 

A Rothko is always an invitation to meditate. I start this post with Mark Rothko`s "Brown and Blacks in Reds"
(1957, oil on canvas, 90 ½ by 60 ⅝ in/.229.9 by 154 cm). The extimated auction price is$70.000,000 - 100,000,000. Then follows Jean-Michel Basquiat`s "Museum security (Broadway Meltdown)". 

 

Above follow three of my favorite artists: Mark Tansey with "Continental Divide"; Adrian Ghenie with "The Blue Rain" & Walton Ford with "The Frontier".

 

Above you can sea Anna Güntner`s "Błąd (Error)
". 

 

Above follow Romare Bearden`s "Early Carolina Morning" (collage, watercolor, pen and pencil on paper laid down on board) & Yu Nishimura`s "Leaves Carpet".

 

There was also a Francis Bacon:"Two Studies for Self Portrait".

 

 

Isn`t she lovely: Francis Picabia`s "Téte Femme".

 

 

No art show without nudes: Leonor Fini`s "Portrait de Alida Vall II" plus 2 paintings by Lisa Yusakavage: "Ludlow Street" & "Photoshoot". 

Enjoy!