(English) Now! Online: Curated by Esteban Cortázar | Sale : 18 > 27 feb. | Public viewing: 22-26 feb.

Press Release Paris

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18-27 February 2019

Curated by Esteban Cortázar

Paris, 18 February 2019 - Sotheby's is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the NOW!

Sale. The online-only sale will open for bidding from today until 27 February 2019.

Following in the footsteps of online lifestyle and interior design magazine The Socialite

Family in 2017, and publishing house We Do Not Work Alone in 2018, the Colombian fashion designer Esteban Cortázar will curate this year's edition of the sale. In a public exhibition taking place on 22-23 and 25-26 February, Cortázar's favourite works will be presented

Agrément N° 2001 - 002 du 25 octobre 2001

alongside several of his own creations, illuminating some of the artists and pieces which have inspired his designs.

NOW! will bring together about 250 pieces of Contemporary art, African art, photographs and design estimated between €300 and €80,000. The sale offers aesthetes the opportunity to enrich their collections or decorate their homes with works by both established and cutting-edge contemporary artists.

Among the highlights are artworks by Pierre Soulages, François Morellet and Olivier Debré, as well as photographs by Bert Stern, Robert Mapplethorpe or Peter Lindbergh. As for design, the sale will offer works from the 1950s to the contemporary period. Creations by

Jean Royère, Maria Pergay, India Madhavi and Hubert Le Gall will accompany superb African art sculptures from Ivory Coast, Ghana and Gabon.

Esteban Cortázar

Born in Bogotá in May 1984 to the Colombian painter Valentino

Cortázar and the former British jazz lounge singer Dominique

Vaughan, Esteban Cortázar has been immersed in the art world from an early age. He grew up in the bohemian Miami of the 1990s, which saw the growing influence of creators like Gianni

Versace and Todd Oldham - two of Cortázar's inspirations. At 18, he became the youngest designer to show in New York

Fashion week. In 2007, he moved to Paris and was appointed

director of fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, which he left in 2009 after six collections. After launching a series of capsule collections for the site Net-a-Porter, the designer revived his eponymous brand, Cortázar, created in 2002, presenting his creations for the first time at

Paris Fashion Week in 2015. Today, his designs are stocked in over 30 stores worldwide.

Pierre Soulages

BROU DE NOIX SUR PAPIER 35,5 X 35,5 CM, 2001

Estimate : €60,000 - 80,000

François Morellet

STRIP-TEASING NO. 5

Estimate : €30,000 - 50,000

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON

Estimate : €6,000 - 9,000

Bert Stern

MARILYN MONROE, BLACK DIOR DRESS, 1962

Estimate : €3,000 - 5,000

Paul McCarthy DROP HEAD / BOUNCE HEAD Estimate : €30,000 - 50,000

René Dumas & Peter Coles

ARMCHAIR, PIPPA COLLECTION, MODEL CREATED IN 1983

Estimate : €2,000 - 3,000

NOW!

Online sale from 18 to 27 February -www.sothebys.com Exhibition on 22, 23, 25 and 27 February

Follow the sale on Twitter & Instagram : #SothebysNow

About Sotheby's

Sotheby's has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Sotheby's became the first international auction house when it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973), India (1992) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sotheby's presents auctions in 10 different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sotheby's BidNow program allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids from anywhere in the world. Sotheby's offers collectors the resources of Sotheby's Financial Services, the world's only full-service art financing company, as well as the collection, artist, estate & foundation advisory services of its subsidiary, Art Agency, Partners. Sotheby's presents private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the gallery arm of Sotheby's Global Fine Art Division, and three retail businesses: Sotheby's Wine, Sotheby's Diamonds, and Viyet, the online marketplace for interior design. Sotheby's has a global network of 80 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).

*Estimates do not include buyer's premium. Prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyer's premium and are net of any fees paid to the purchaser where the purchaser provided an irrevocable bid.

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