Sotheby’s Upcoming Sale of Contemporary Art will Feature Two Sessions at the Galerie in Paris

PARIS.- Sotheby’s upcoming sale of Contemporary Art will feature two sessions at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris on December 7 & 8.Coinciding with the Basquiat retrospective at the Paris Musée d’Art Moderne, Sotheby’s will offer Water-Worshipper, an iconic work from 1984, when Jean-Michel Basquiat was at the height of his powers. The canvas, kept in the same collection since it was acquired in 1988, evokes Basquiat’s Haiti origins and minority oppression in the Americas. Water-Worshipper is the contemporary work with the highest estimate (€2,300,000-3,000,000) to be offered at Sotheby’s Paris since 2008. The Evening Sale on December 7 majors on a European Private Collection assembled between 1960-75, containing sixty carefully chosen works now appearing at auction for the first time. Three works from the collection were

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