二十世纪晚间拍卖

Celebrating the most significant movements of the modern and post-war eras, this May’s 20th Century Evening Sale showcases the vanguard artists who defined the period.

This season, we are honoured to present Art from the Bass House, the next chapter in the collecting story of Anne and Sid Bass. Hailing from the historic Paul Rudolph-designed home in Fort Worth, the Bass House is an ambitious feat of midcentury American modernism, with its interlocking spaces, dynamic vistas, and expansive walls, elevated by the monumental art held within – masterpieces by Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder, and more. Leading the collection is Mark Rothko’s No. 4 (Two Dominants) [Orange Plum Black] from 1950-51, showcasing the artist at his finest.

The auction is led by Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule, one of the most exquisite examples from the artist’s highly coveted Les Peupliers series, painted during Monet’s breakthrough decade of the 1890s. Featuring a vivid palette of sunset hues in a striking vertical orientation measuring over three feet tall, this is among the most dynamic and richly worked paintings of the iconic Peupliers subject. The work has exceptional provenance, having first been in the collection of the legendary dealer Paul Durand-Ruel and his family for over 50 years, and it now comes to auction from a private collection where it was held for over 60 years.

The auction spotlights titans of American post-war painting, bolstered by Helen Frankenthaler’s Basin and Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 160, both executed in 1979, as well as masterworks from Latin America, including female Surrealist Remedios Varo’s Revelación (also titled El relojero) from 1955 and the legendary Diego Rivera’s celebration of Mexican culture, La ofrenda de Janitzio, painted in 1947.

Explore the 20th/21st Century Art auction series in New York.