Sotheby’s Offers Art and Design From Estate of Dealer Barbara Gladstone

During New York Design Week (June 5-11), Sotheby’s will auction art and design pieces from the estate of respected art dealer Barbara Gladstone, who died in 2024 at the age of 89. The 140 lots included in the auction include contemporary art, modern and contemporary design, prints and photographs, and are expected to fetch between $6.9 and $10 million. The auction will take place on Tuesday, June 9, with a public preview opening on June 2 at the brand’s Madison Avenue headquarters.

Previously, the auction house sold a dozen pieces of contemporary art from the Gladstone collection as part of a May 15 sale. The group, which included works by Carroll Dunham, Sigmar Polke, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, Rudolf Stingel and Andy Warhol, sold for $18.5 million, including commission, against a high estimate of $1,200 million (excluding commission), all works found buyers, and 75% of them sold above their high estimates.

In addition to works by artists such as Matthew Barney, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Yayoi Kusama, Peyton, Prince and Amy Hillman, the art and design sale also includes important works of mid-century European and Brazilian modernism by designers such as Pierre Jeanneret, Pierre Paulin, Jean Prouvé, Jean Roière, Emile-Jacques Luhrmann, Joachim Tanreiro and Pavo Tenel. Other pieces bridge the gap between art and design, such as the Scott Burton granite coffee table, Damián Ortega wood chair sculptures and Franz West chairs and dining tables.

“When my colleagues in the contemporary art department took me to review these designs, I was excited because I feel like this collection embodies the growing momentum of the convergence between art and design,” said Jodi Pollack, the brand’s chair of 20th Century Design and chair of major collections for the Americas. art news.

Pollack cited two successful art and design auctions this spring: a New York sale of the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg (she a fashion mogul, Terry de Gunzburg a biologist), led by a record-breaking set of Claude Lalanne mirrors; and a London sale of the collection of British socialite and art patron Pauline Karpidas. “This is exactly how collectors want to see art and design presented together,” she said, adding, “Barbara clearly saw the connection between art, sculpture and objects decades ago. She was immersed in this world.”

Richard Prince leads the sale Medusa (2003), from the artist’s “Hoods” series of sculptures consisting of the hoods of American muscle cars. It is expected to bring in revenue of $800,000 to $1.2 million. Other works from the series are also in the collections of museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Two Artworks Estimated as High as $600,000: Mixed Media Works by Kai Althoff Under the highway bridge (2003), showing a group of people under an elevated road, and a portrait of Alex Katz Halsey 9 (2022).

The leading design choice was the sideboard from approx. Created in 1948, French designer Jean Prouvé’s designs have sold for as much as $1.7 million, which is the price of a table at Sotheby’s New York in 2021, according to analytics firm ARTDAI. The sideboard is estimated at $120,000 to $180,000.

“There is an incredible interest and influence in materiality and texture,” said Lisa Dennison, chairman of Sotheby’s Americas. art news. “When I look at the hood of the Prince car, I see the silver paint and something that’s somewhere between art, architecture and sculpture, and the Prouvé cabinets, which are similar colors. I see a beautiful echo. I think Barbara appreciates the echo.”