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Masterpieces from this sale embody the spirit of artists working at the turn of the 20th century — visionaries who defied convention to forge a bold, modern language of art. Charting the historic threads and cross-continental exchanges linking Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and beyond, the Modern Evening Auction celebrates the pivotal developments that have shaped art history.
The Modern Evening Auction will feature highlights from The Armand Hammer Collection, Magnum Opus: A Private Collection of Exceptional Art and Objects Through the Ages, Picasso's Heroic Years: Masterpieces from a Prestigious Family, Shaping Modernity: Property from a Private American Collection and Expanding Horizons: The Hedreen Collection. These works and more will be viewable at Sotheby’s New York this November.
Shaping Modernity: Property from a Private American Collection charts the defining moments in the evolution of modern art. Bringing together exceptional works by the artists who transformed painting between the 19th and 20th centuries, the collection highlights a series of breakthroughs that forever altered the trajectory of art history. The collection, beginning with Impressionism, spans the key Post-Impressionist movements such as Pointillism, Fauvism and reaches forward to the post-war figuration of Francis Bacon, each work embodies a willingness to challenge convention and pursue new possibilities of artistic expression.
The earliest work in the collection L’Oncle Dominique is aptly by Cézanne, whom Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque called “the father of us all.” At the foundation of the collection is Camille Pissarro's Hameau aux environs de Pontoise which elevates the countryside to the fitting subject for progressive art. Alfred Sisley's landscape and Eugène Boudin's beach scene attend to the light and atmosphere of nature observed en plein air. Pierre-Auguste Renoir's portrait of his patron Paul Bérard brims with the luminosity of the finest Impressionist portraits. Paul Signac’s celebrated pointillist composition, Collioure. Les Balancelles (Opus 167) marks a pivotal moment in the development of modern painting with its radical exploration of color and optics. His innovative experiments with color gave rise to the riotous palettes of Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, the defining voices of Fauvism, whose respective views of Collioure, the Thames and the open road show color liberated from description. The collection culminates with Francis Bacon's poignant Self-Portrait, a work that captures both the artist's psychological torment and the refuge that he found in painting. Through a remarkable command of color and gesture, Bacon defines a new self-portraiture, rendering himself with force and fluidity as if caught between states of reality and remembrance. Together, the collection illuminates the artistic innovations through which modern art took shape.
Beginning this November, Sotheby’s will offer some 50 works from the exceptional collection of Richard (“Dick”) and the late Elizabeth (“Betty”) Hedreen. Devoted philanthropists, active supporters of their native Seattle and Washington State, and passionate collectors for six decades, the Hedreens can rightly be considered pioneers, who were among the very first to place considerable emphasis on the visual and intellectual dialogues inherent in juxtaposing art from across the ages, assembling a collection that spans the 15th century to the present day.
Highlights to be offered at Sotheby’s include major paintings by Roy Lichtenstein and Cecily Brown, together with a moving Mater Dolorosa by Titian, a striking Northern Renaissance portrait by Georg Pencz, a Baroque masterpiece by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, and more.
Highlights
Type: lot
Roy Lichtenstein
Reflections on "Painter and Model"
Estimate: 20,000,000–30,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Georg Pencz
Portrait of Sigismund Baldinger (1510-1558)
Estimate: 8,000,000–12,000,000
USD
Type: lot
Cecily Brown
Untitled (Shipwreck)
Estimate: 7,000,000–10,000,000
USD
Type: lot
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Sacrifice of Isaac
Masterworks of the Modern Evening Auction
Type: lot
René Magritte
L'Ami de l'ordre
Estimate: 25,000,000 – 35,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Edward Hopper
The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Claude Monet
La Barque bleue
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Paul Cézanne
Pichet et fruits sur une table
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Estimate: 7,000,000–10,000,000 USD
Masterworks of the Modern Evening Auction
Type: lot
René Magritte
L'Ami de l'ordre
Estimate: 25,000,000 – 35,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Edward Hopper
The Martha McKeen of Wellfleet
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Claude Monet
La Barque bleue
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Paul Cézanne
Pichet et fruits sur une table
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
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Theodore and Ruth Baum's Palm Beach residence. Art © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Art © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Art © Carl Andre / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Art © Antony Gormley 2026. All rights reserved. Art © 2026 Michelangelo Pistoletto. Photograph by Diana Todorova 
