Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2010 will offer Housatonic, a painting by Arshile Gorky, Est. $800,000/1.2 million*.
The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. All the works will be on view from 5 November with selected highlights on exhibition from 29 October.
Arshile Gorky, Housatonic, 1943. Est. $800,000/1.2 million. Photo: Sotheby’s
Housatonic was executed by Arshile Gorky in 1943, a breakthrough year for the artist (est. $800,000/1.2 million). The work is named after the large New England river familiar to Gorky from visits to the Connecticut countryside and exemplifies Gorky’s skill at combining the application of jewel-toned crayon within velvety black ink contours to achieve an array of moods related to the sense of sunshine, shade, rocky precipices, water and foliage. Acquired by businessman and philanthropist Clarence Day in 1974, Housatonic was previously in the prestigious Norton Simon collection.
*Estimates do not include buyer’s premium
