The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction in November 2026 will feature artworks which capture the paradigmatic artistic shifts of the latter half of the 20th century through to the present. Beginning with Postwar abstraction and moving through Minimalism and Pop into the critical postmodern inquiries of the 1980s through to today, these radical new modes of art-making fundamentally altered the course of art history. Spotlighting these developments within a unified platform, the masterworks of The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction call into focus the plurality of visions, identities and artistic innovations that have reshaped the trajectory of art history as we know it. These works and more will be viewable at Sotheby’s New York this November.
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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.
The Hedreen residence, from left to right: Lot 7A, Francis and Lot 1A, Mitchell. Art © 2026 Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Art © Estate of Joan MitchellThe collection will be led by 11 Contemporary masterworks from Sam Francis, to Roy Lichtenstein, to Cecily Brown. This will be offered alongside a broad range of other works in a variety of media across The New York Sales this November, followed by a dedicated Old Masters auction in New York, February 2027.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Reflections on “Painter and Model”
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
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Cecily Brown
Untitled (Shipwreck)
Estimate: 7,000,000 – 10,000,000 USD
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Sam Francis
Towards Disappearance I
Estimate: 15,000,000 – 20,000,000 USD
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Willem de Kooning
Water...Soft Banks and a Window (Untitled VIII)
Estimate: 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 USD
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Jonas Wood
Japanese Garden with Moon and Stars
Estimate: 3,000,000 – 5,000,000 USD
For Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, art in every form was part of their lives. Lenore served as a board president of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Bernard was a founder and chairman of the LA Opera, and together they were devoted supporters of the LA Philharmonic as well as the Public Library. For Lennie and Bernie, as they were familiarly known, art held the inimitable power to transform a community. Through historic gifts, measured leadership, and a singular philanthropic spirit, the Greenbergs helped shape Los Angeles: its sound, its cultural landscape, its civic institutions, and collective imagination. As they upheld Los Angeles’ public arts and culture, so, too, did they build a collection of brilliant, timeless rigor to be enjoyed in the privacy of their home. These works take center stage this November at Sotheby's.
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Brice Marden
Suzhou, Before and After
Estimate: 6,000,000 – 8,000,000 USD
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Ellsworth Kelly
White Relief with Black II
Estimate: 1,800,000 – 2,500,000 USD
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Martin Puryear
Yearn
Estimate: 500,000 – 700,000 USD
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Agnes Martin
Desert
Estimate: 6,000,000 – 8,000,000 USD
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Kelpie
Estimate: 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD
This May, Sotheby's is thrilled to offer a major Flowers by Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol’s Flowers is an exceptionally rare and preeminent example of one of the artist’s most celebrated and iconic series. One of only seven 48-by-48-inch flower paintings on a stark white background, Flowers is one of the most visually distilled and desirable works from a series that represents a decisive moment in Warhol’s formal and conceptual engagement with mass culture and art history; thus, the present work represents one of the clearest assertions of Warhol's pop authority.
Crowd of people at the opening of the Art Museum of South Texas in Dallas featuring Andy Warhol's Flowers. Photo by Jim Olive/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images. Art © 2026 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkBegun in 1964 and finished in 1965, only a year after Warhol’s debut exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, the present work encapsulates the singularity of Warhol’s practice and career; made using his quintessential appropriation of mass-produced imagery, it is conceptually daring in its lifting of preexisting source material and formally striking in both its harmonic spatial balance and brilliant chromatic tension.
Andy Warhol
Flowers
Estimate: 10,000,000 – 15,000,000 USD
In 1961, just a few years after moving to the United States, Kusama would participate in the Whitney’s 1961 Annual Exhibition of contemporary sculpture and painting. Alongside peers from the New York School, Kusama was here contextualized at the fore of the American avant-garde, along with artists such as Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Philip Guston. Each artist presented an artwork, and the present work was Kusama’s.
Yayoi Kusama with Infinity Nets, 1960. Courtesy and Image © Yayoi Kusama. Art © 2026 Yayoi KusamaAmong the earliest, largest, and most significant examples from the series, notably distinguished for its inclusion in one of Kusama’s earliest institutional presentations in the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1961, No. 3P.B. marks both a point of genesis and a concluding statement: a technique mastered early yet endlessly generative, a visual language and ideological thesis fecund with reinventive possibility. The present work stands as one of the earliest mature Infinity Nets, in which Kusama’s signature painterly mode reaches its fullest evolution.
Yayoi Kusama
No. 3P.B.
Estimate: 10,000,000 – 15,000,000 USD
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Andy Warhol
Double Liz
Estimate: 8,000,000 – 12,000,000 USD
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David Hockney
Alliums
Estimate: 5,000,000 – 7,000,000 USD
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Francis Bacon
Self-Portrait
Estimate: 10,000,000 – 15,000,000 USD
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Jeff Koons
Bob-Tail
Estimate: 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 USD
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Salman Toor
Lavender Boy
Estimate: 60,000 – 80,000 USD
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Kerry James Marshall
Untitled (Pin-up)
Estimate: 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 USD
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Firelei Báez
Encyclopedia of gestures (Jeu du monde)
Estimate: 600,000 – 800,000 USD
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Yoshitomo Nara
Candy Blue Night
Estimate: 5,000,000 – 7,000,000 USD
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Mark Bradford
If Caught Outside
Estimate: 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 USD
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Agnes Martin
Untitled #2
Estimate: 3,500,000 – 4,500,000 USD
Type: lot
Ruth Asawa
Untitled (S.871, Wall-Mounted Tied-Wire, Closed-Center, Four-Branched Form…
Estimate: 800,000 – 1,200,000 USD
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Willem de Kooning
Untitled
Estimate: 4,500,000 – 6,500,000 USD
Type: lot
Ed Ruscha
Light Leaks
Estimate: 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 USD
Type: lot
Jean-Michel Basquiat
La Vieja
Estimate: 6,000,000 – 8,000,000 USD
Type: lot
Andy Warhol
Dolly Parton
Estimate: 1,600,000 – 2,500,000 USD
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Keith Haring
Portrait of Grace Jones
Estimate: 3,500,000 – 5,000,000 USD
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1A | Joan Mitchell
2A | Tomma Abts
3A | Jonas Wood
4A | Roy Lichtenstein
5A | Matthew Wong
6A | Cecily Brown
7A | Sam Francis
8A | Willem de Kooning
9A | Willem de Kooning
10A | Pierre Soulages
11A | Cy Twombly
101 | Andy Warhol
102 | Jeff Koons
103 | David Hockney
104 | Ruth Asawa
105 | Susan Rothenberg
106 | Brice Marden
107 | Ellsworth Kelly
108 | Martin Puryear
109 | Agnes Martin
110 | Yayoi Kusama
111 | Helen Frankenthaler
112 | Andy Warhol
113 | Willem de Kooning
114 | Franz Kline
115 | Salman Toor
116 | Firelei Báez
117 | Jem Perucchini
118 | Yoshitomo Nara
119 | Simone Leigh
120 | Mark Bradford
121 | Yayoi Kusama
122 | Gerhard Richter
123 | Francis Bacon
124 | Andy Warhol
125 | Jean-Michel Basquiat
126 | Andy Warhol
127 | Agnes Martin
128 | Agnes Martin
129 | Lee Bontecou
130 | Ed Ruscha
131 | Jean-Michel Basquiat
132 | Mark Tansey
133 | Kerry James Marshall
134 | Alexander Calder
135 | Roy Lichtenstein
136 | David Hockney
137 | Morris Louis
138 | Helen Frankenthaler
139 | Keith Haring
