Sotheby’s Previews Upcoming Sale Benefiting The Studio Museum in Harlem

Sotheby’s celebrated the Studio Museum in Harlem with a dinner and exhibition preview last night in New York. The evening was in support of “Creating Space: Artists for The Studio Museum in Harlem,” the upcoming auction on May 16 and 17 at the auction house, benefiting the museum’s new building on 125^thStreet.

Throughout the spring, 42 prominent artists with close ties to the museum’s mission donated works for the sale, including Mark Bradford, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Sam Gilliam among others.

Kehinde Wiley
Charles I
Signed and dated 2018 on the reverse
Oil on canvas
72 by 60 in.; 182.9 by 152.4 cm.
Estimate $100/150,000
Courtesy the artist; Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Galerie Templon, Paris.

Also marking the museum’s 50^thanniversary, the dinner was preceded by a cocktail reception and private viewing of sale highlights in Sotheby’s York Avenue Galleries hosted by Sotheby’s Global Head of Business Development Valentino D. Carlotti and Head of Museum Services & Single Owner Sales Nina Del Rio with support from the Studio Museum Director Thelma Golden.