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Exclusive selling exhibition Hunters & Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage opens at Sotheby’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York announce that from 18 November to 16 December, 2011 it is hosting its third selling exhibition in S|2, the newly constructed gallery space within Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters dedicated to private sales. This show focuses on the accumulative tendency in art that has been broadly labeled ‘assemblage’. It features American Indian, African & Oceanic art, Modern and Contemporary art, Photography and Design. The works in the exhibition range in price from $25,000 to over $10 million* Lisa Dennison, Chairman of Sotheby’s North and South America and one of the organizers of the exhibition, commented: “Until about 10,000 years ago, all human beings were hunters and gatherers. While the invention of