@nicolekidman 's visit with Constantin Brancusi's ‘Danaïde’.
In the orbit of Brancusi's vision of modern sculpture, the world shifts. Its gentle features, inviting smile and enigmatic gaze — modeled after the artist's muse Margit Pogany — are as hypnotic now as when it first emerged.
🎥Watch the full film at our link in bio and discover ‘Danaïde’ at Christie’s New York.
📅Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse | New York | 18 May
What did the greatest gallerist of our time choose to live with? 🕯️
Marian Goodman opened her 57th Street gallery in 1977 with a fierce commitment to European artists that no one else dared to believe in. She wrote Gerhard Richter a letter in 1984 telling him how much she loved his work — and changed the course of contemporary art in America. What followed was a lifetime of conviction, loyalty and an eye that never wavered.
At the heart of her private collection: an extraordinary group of paintings by Richter, acquired over four decades and kept on her walls — chosen as acts of love and recognition.
Exceptional works spanning periods, disciplines and continents reveal the full breadth of Goodman’s exquisite taste.
🔗 Discover Breaking Ground: The Private Collection of Marian Goodman at the link in our bio.
📅 21st Century Evening Sale | New York | 20 May
📸 Photo: Sharon Lockhart, @jeanfrancoisjaussaud
One conversation led Agnes Gund to a Rothko.
Before she became president of the Museum of Modern Art, Gund was learning how to look at art. A close friend and mentor, Emily Hall Tremaine, encouraged her to visit artists’ studios, trust her own eye and get to know artists personally.
During a trip to New York, Gund told Tremaine how much she admired a painting by Rothko and wished she could acquire one of her own. Tremaine's response was immediate: ‘Let’s go to Rothko’s studio.’
There, Gund purchased 'No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe)' (1964) directly from the artist — a rare distinction shared by only a handful of Rothko’s works.
Gund would later lend and donate over 800 artworks from her collection to museums around the world. This Rothko, however, left her home only once, for an exhibition early on — and she soon realised how much she missed it.
‘She really did care and know the artists,’ Gund later said of Tremaine. ‘I think I would have never had the richness of my life without her example.’
🔗 Discover the story behind The Collection of Agnes Gund at the link in bio.
Have you seen this 'Anxious Girl' downtown?
Roy Lichtenstein's 1964 masterpiece can be seen on 1165 West Broadway and Houston in New York City, standing just over 21 feet tall. Here's how the mural came together.
🔗 Learn more about the comic book-inspired portrait at the link in our bio.
📅 20th Century Evening Sale | 18 May
In 1983, Andy Warhol gave these endangered animals the celebrity treatment.
Through his unmistakable visual language of bold, neon colour and repetition, 'Endangered Species' transforms 10 animals at risk of extinction into cultural icons.
From the Siberian tiger and giant panda to the bald eagle, black rhinoceros and orangutan, the series reimagines these charismatic creatures in the style Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor.
What makes the present example especially rare is that it is a complete Trial Proof set. While developing the series, Warhol and publisher Ronald Feldman produced multiple colour variations before selecting the final edition. Most of these unique proofs were broken up, making this complete set as rare as the animals it portrays.
🔗 Discover Warhol's menagerie at the link in our bio.
📅 Post-War and Contemporary Art | New York | 21 May
‘My only idea is that one ought to be able to use anything that one can see and any quality one can perceive.’ — Jasper Johns, 1965
Today marks the artist’s 96th birthday. Johns transformed the familiar — flags, targets, numbers, maps — into sites of endless variation, collapsing the distinction between image and object.
Working across mediums like collage, printmaking and encaustic, his practice foregrounded a process that asked audiences and artists alike to concentrate, to look again and to question what we think we see.
Discover works that trace the motifs and milestones that define one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
🔗 Read everything you need to know about the artist at the link in bio.
🗓️ Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse | New York | 18 May
Geneva Luxury Week history has been rewritten! 💎⌚
Records were set at the Magnificent Jewels and Rare Watches sales, totaling CHF 85 Million.
With collectors from around the world converging, Luxury Week in Geneva opened with Rare Watches, marked by record-breaking results for Cartier Crash and Audemars Piguet. The sale achieved CHF 33 million, the highest result for any various owner watch auction at Christie’s, and was led by an exceptionally rare F.P. Journe Platinum Tourbillon Souverain, Ref. T, which realised CHF 2,439,000 — five times its low estimate.
Magnificent Jewels saw bidding repeatedly soaring above high estimates, and the auction culminated with 20 minutes of intense bidding for The Ocean Dream, becoming the most expensive fancy vivid blue-green diamond ever sold at auction. The sale achieved CHF 52 million.
Jewels Online continues the action in Geneva until 19 May.
Discover more results via link in bio.
The Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sales present standout pieces across mediums by the masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sculptures by Jean (Hans) Arp and Marino Marini. Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse. Watercolors by Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. Works on Paper by Edgar Degas and René Magritte.
See it all in our New York galleries through 18 May. Admission is free and open to the public.
📍 Find us at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
📅 Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Sale | 19 May, 10AM EDT
📅 Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 19 May, 2PM EDT
Iconic works at accessible prices.
From John Singer Sargent’s portrait of a favourite muse to Pablo Picasso’s early ceramics, uncover a trove of treasures that won’t break the bank within Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art sales week in New York.
🔗 Discover more at the link in our bio.
🗓️ Breaking Ground: The Private Collection of Marian Goodman Part I | Online | 8-22 May
🗓️ Picasso Ceramics | Online | 8-22 May
🗓️ Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sales | New York | 19 May
🗓️ Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | New York | 21 May
'The idea becomes a machine that makes the art'.
Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings are a cornerstone of conceptual art, based on the artist’s belief that the idea behind an artwork is more important than its physical execution.
Instead of producing the finished paintings, LeWitt famously created diagrams and instructions for how to make his work, backed up by a certificate of authenticity. Professional artists from LeWitt’s studio execute those instructions to this day, adapting them to their setting; walls can be painted over and the work reinstalled anywhere.
In this exuberant piece from LeWitt's final years, 'Wall Drawing 1112', the artist specified the use of each primary and secondary colour in broken rectangular bands, with no two bands of the same colour allowed to touch.
📍 See this LeWitt in person at our Rockefeller Center galleries. Admission to the exhibition is free and open to the public.
🔗 Discover more at the link in our bio.
📅 Defined Space: The Collection of Henry S. McNeil, Jr. | New York | 20 May
When every piece in your collection deserves its own cover story.
Led by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns and Pablo Picasso — S.I. Newhouse’s masterpieces represent artists at the height of their powers or at moments of significant breakthrough — ‘the best of the best’ of the 20th century.
In tribute to Mr. Newhouse’s unrivaled collection, we’ve put together a special magazine, with essays, interviews and deep-dives.
Pick up a copy with your favourite cover at our New York galleries before they’re all gone.
📍 Find us at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
📅 Masterpieces: The Private Collection of Si Newhouse | New York | 18 May
Colour in motion, light captured in glass.
Themes & Variations: The Murano Glass Collection of Liliane Fawcett reveals the expressive freedom of post-war Murano, where molten glass becomes sculpture. From the graphic elegance of Fulvio Bianconi to the experimental forms of Dino Martens, this remarkable ensemble invites a sensory journey through transparency, texture, and colour.
Design, Paris, 26 & 27 May
Public exhibition, 21–26 May
