Sotheby’s presents June Design Week in New York, a three-day series of auctions at the Breuer building on Madison Avenue from 9 to 11 June, spanning more than a century of design. The week brings together two single-owner sales, Art & Design from the Collection of Barbara Gladstone on 9 June and Of Form and Color: Art and Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection on 10 June, alongside Important Design on 11 June. A public preview exhibition is on view through 11 June.
Art & Design from the Collection of Barbara Gladstone, offered on 9 June, comprises 140 lots estimated at $6.9 million to $10 million. A pioneering gallerist, Gladstone gave Matthew Barney his first New York solo show in 1991 and premiered Richard Prince’s Nurse Paintings in 2003. The sale pairs contemporary works with midcentury European and Brazilian modernism, including pieces by Jean Prouvé, Jean Royère, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Paavo Tynell and Pierre Jeanneret. It is led by Prince’s Medusa (2003, est. $800,000 to $1,200,000) from his Car Hood series, alongside Alex Katz’s Halsey 9 (2022, est. $400,000 to $600,000) and a Prouvé sideboard, Model no. BA-12, circa 1948 (est. $120,000 to $180,000).
Of Form and Color: Art and Design from the Emmanuel de Bayser Collection, offered on 10 June, is estimated at $5.4 million to $7.7 million. Shaped over decades between Paris and Berlin, the collection centres on an extensive holding of works by Georges Jouve, extending to Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, François-Xavier Lalanne and Alberto Giacometti, set against artworks by Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis and Günther Förg. Highlights include a large Jouve ceramic sculpture circa 1958 (est. $70,000 to $100,000); François-Xavier Lalanne’s Mouton de Pierre and Mouton Transhumant (each est. $250,000 to $350,000); and Giacometti’s pair of “Étoile” table lamps (est. $220,000 to $280,000) and “Étoile” floor lamp (est. $175,000 to $225,000).
Important Design, on 11 June, traces the defining aesthetic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Leading the sale is Diego Giacometti’s Promenade des Amis Console from the collection of Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue (est. $3 million to $5 million), the top lot of Design Week. The sale also brings together works by Claude Lalanne, Jean Royère, Eileen Gray and Alexandre Noll from a private collection designed by Jacques Grange; works by Jean Royère and Serge Mouille; a group by George and Mira Nakashima from the collection of Barry and Irene Bloom; and a survey of works by Harry Bertoia.
Further highlights of Important Design include Claude Lalanne’s Structure Végétale candelabra, offered in two pairs from an edition of four (est. $250,000 to $350,000 per pair); Jean Royère’s “ Oeuf” sofa (est. $300,000 to $500,000) and armchair (est. $100,000 to $150,000), designed in 1954 and retained in Paule Marrot’s original floral upholstery; Harry Bertoia’s Untitled (est. $300,000 to $500,000); Mira Nakashima’s Sanso dining table of 1999 (est. $40,000 to $60,000); and a Paavo Tynell “ Snowflake” chandelier (est. $250,000 to $350,000). Royère and Tynell each appear across all three sales this Design Week.
(Press Release)
