US EditionPauline Karpidas's Surrealist Trove to Fetch Record £60 Million in Mid-September London Auction
GREATER LONDON, ENGLAND, AUG 4 – The auction features 250 Surrealist and contemporary works estimated at $81 million, marking Sotheby's highest valued single-owner sale in Europe to date.
- On September 17, Sotheby’s will launch the auction of Pauline Karpidas’s collection in London with 250 items expected to bring in $81 million.
- Now in her 80s, Karpidas decided to sell nearly all of her collection, transforming her London residence into an artwork hosting figures like Magritte and Warhol.
- René Magritte’s La Statue volante leads the headline lots, estimated at $12 million–$16 million, with Tanguy’s Titre inconnu also valued highly.
- Rather than remaining in public institutions, the collection will be dispersed across the private market, and she may be the last of the 20th-century 'grande dames' to assemble such a collection.
- Sotheby’s will stage an immersive show from September 8-17 at its Mayfair galleries, featuring an indoor Les Lalanne garden, ahead of the September 17 auctions.
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