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Art collected by Hollywood legends Samuel Goldwyn senior and junior will be sold by Sotheby’s across a series of auctions this year. Samuel Goldwyn Senior (1879-1974) assembled a core group of works from the 1940’s through to the 1960’s with standout pieces by Picasso and Matisse. Samuel Goldwyn junior (1926-2015) added to the collection, with work by David Hockney, Milton Avery, Diego Rivera and others. More than 25 works from the collection, with a combined estimate of more than $25 million, will be offered starting in New York on May 5 at the evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art. Work from the collection will also feature in sales of Contemporary Art in New York on May 12 and 13,  American Art on May 20, Latin American Art on May 26-27, Impressionist and Modern Art on May 28 and at the sale of Modern and Post War British Art in London on June 9 and 10.

Pablo Picasso
Femme au chignon dans un fauteuil
Signed Picasso (upper right) and dated 1.11.48 on the reverse ($12-18 million) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $29,930,000

Henri Matisse
Anémones et grenades
Signed H Matisse and dated ’46 ($5-7 million).

David Hockney
Fruit in a Chinese Bowl
1988 ($800,000-1.2 million)

Milton Avery
Reclining Female
1963 ($600,000-800,000)

Diego Rivera – El balcón
1921 ($300,000-400,000).

Samuel Goldwyn senior and junior

The first auction at de Veres new space in Kildare St., Dublin takes place on March 24. It will feature 92 lots of Irish art.  The renovation at Kildare St. will enable de Veres to conduct more select auctions of Irish Art and Contemporary furniture. New auction areas are also being explored. A photography sale and a book auction will be held here later in the year.  The catalogue for the art auction on March 24 is online. Here is a small selection.

Yvonne Moore – Dresser (1,400-1,800).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER

Walter Frederick Osborne – A Pensive Moment (1894) (12,000-16,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Pauline Bewick RHA – Still life with artichokes (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

Roderic O’Conor – Waves Breaking on the shore at sunset (30,000-40,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 40,000 AT HAMMER

Colin Middleton – Red Landscape, 1962 (15,000-20,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

More than 300 paintings by modern Chinese artists estimated at more than US$23 million will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s Fine Chinese Paintings spring sale in Hong Kong on April 6.   Highlights include fresh-to-market works from the family collections of Zhang Daqian, Li Yanshan and Yuan Shikai.

Zhang Daqian’s Ancient Temple in the Mist

Wu Dacheng’s Calligraphy Couplet in Zhuanshu

The largest Southeast Asian art auction ever held at Sotheby’s promises to be a highlight of the Spring 2015 sales series in Hong Kong. More than 250 lots of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian art will come under the hammer on April 4 and 5. The sale is led by modern Indonesian and Filipino masterpieces: Hendra Gunawan’s Pandawa Dadu (The Dice Game from the Mahabharata Epic), one of only two large-format works on the Hindu epic by the artist ever to appear in the market, and Muslim Betrothal by Carlos Villaluz Francisco.

Hendra Gunawan’s Pandawa Dadu (The Dice Game from the Mahabharata Epic)

Carlos Villaluz Francisco’s Muslim Betrothal.

Masterworks from former Goldman Sachs chairman John C. Whitehead will form the cornerstone collection at Christie’s sales of Impressionist and Modern art in New York on May 14 and 15.  They include Modigliani’s Portrait of Beatrice Hastings and Monet’s Paysage de matin (Giverny). Other highlights are by Morisot, Renoir, Seurat and Van Gogh.  The 90-piece collection is expected to achieve more than $40 million.

John Whitehead, who died in February, was a passionate collector. He served as chairman of Goldman Sachs during its critical phase of global expansion. He was a key diplomatic figure at the end of the Cold War as Deputy Secretary of State during the Reagan administration, and as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In the wake of 9/11 he was chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, tasked with rebuilding the area around Ground Zero.

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Beatrice Hastings 1916 ($5-7 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.. 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE $16,069,000

Claude Monet, Paysage de matin (Giverny), oil on canvas, 1888. US$6-8 million Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2015  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $4,533,000