Contemporary Discoveries

Sotheby's Online | London

Auction date : 19 Jul 2022

Sotheby's New York holds an online auction entitled "Contemporary Discoveries" from 8 to 19 July 2022. This is a sale for diverse artworks of various media and includes works of the recent 150 years from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism. Sotheby's Fine Art Departments feature a selection of artworks from 1960 to today in this auction.

Sotheby's, founded in 1744 in London, is now an American multinational corporation and one of the world's greatest and oldest auction houses. Alongside its headquarters in New York, Sotheby's has 80 locations in 40 countries, and 9 salerooms around the world that hold nearly 250 auctions in more than 70 different categories per year including Contemporary Art, Modern and Impressionist Art, Old Masters, Chinese Art, Islamic Art, Photography, Jewelry, and many others.

Andy Warhol, Victor Vasarely, David Hockney, Larry Bell, George Condo, Larry Poons, and Tom Wesselmann are some of the great artists whose works are presented in this auction.

One artwork from Mehdi Farhadian, the Iranian artist, is featured in this auction with an estimate from 20,000 to 30,000 USD. 

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Artworks by Iranians

Mehdi Farhadian, The Last Light of the Day, 2016

Mehdi Farhadian

Lot 305

2016 | The Last Light of the Day

acrylic on canvas

150.2 × 120cm

Est: 20,000 - 30,000$

Price realized: 6,300$Result with buyer's premium 75% below the mid-estimate. Estimates exclude the buyer's premium.

Previous Highlights

Manoucher Yektai, Untitled, 1970

Manoucher Yektai17 Dec 2021

Price realized: 69,300$Result with buyer's premium 73% above the mid-estimate. Estimates exclude the buyer's premium.

1970 | Untitled99.7 × 110 cmoil on canvas

Lot: 174

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000$

Hammer price: 55,000$