$53 M. Wingate Collection Comes to Sotheby’s, Led by $25 M. Giacometti
The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 and 20. The group of over 50 works, including canonical artists like Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, and Varvara Stepanova, is estimated to sell for between $37 million and $53 million. Leading the collection and accounting for as much as half its value is Giacometti’s La Clairière (Composition avec neuf figures), conceived in 1950 and cast in 1960; the work is estimated at between $18 million and $25 million. Also by the Swiss artist is Buste d’homme (New York I), estimated at $2 million–$3 million. Related Articles “La Clairière is one of those works that stops you completely,” said Allegra Bettini, Sotheby’s New York head of the modern evening auction, in press materials. “Giacometti arrived at this composition by chance, and yet it feels utterly inevitable—nine figures that seem to hold the weight of everything …
