The War of the Roses by the Macklowe couple, art collectors, made for one of the most sensational auctions of the past year in November: With the first batch of their high-quality Macklowe Collection, 35 works of modern art that came under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York, the auction house achieved a result of $676.1 million.
There has never been more turnover at a single-owner auction.
The fact that the auction took place under legal duress because the owners could not agree on the division of their joint collection attracted additional attention.
Now the separation goes into the next round.
As announced by Sotheby's, another thirty works from the renowned collection will come up for auction on May 16 in New York.
Gerhard Richter is represented by the large-format painting "Seascape" from 1975 (estimate 25-35 million dollars), Andy Warhol with one of his last works, a monumental self-portrait from 1986 (15/20 million, million), which only has one It was exhibited in 1995 and has not been shown publicly since.
The offer also includes works by Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jeff Koons - it is a veritable who's who of modern and contemporary art museum quality.
The works will be on display at Sotheby's in London until March 2, then in Palm Beach, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong before heading to the New York auction.