NEW YORK, N.Y. – Works by Gerhard Richter, Willem de Kooning and David Hockney will highlight Sotheby’s contemporary art auction later this month.
The Nov. 17 auction also will feature paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL’ BAH’-skee-aht) and Andy Warhol.
Sotheby’s expects a large-scale landscape by Hockney titled “Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006” to set a new auction record for the British artist. It believes the painting will bring between $9 million and $12 million.
The current Hockney auction record is $7.9 million set in 2009.
The autumnal scene is part of a series of paintings inspired by the countryside of Yorkshire, England. The painting, measuring over 10-feet wide, is composed of six connected canvases. Sotheby’s said Hockney devised the method because of the narrow staircase of his studio.
