Picasso to Giacometti’s Sticks Lead Sotheby’s $322 Million Sale
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Trophy works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso will lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art sale in New York next month.
Estimated by the auction house to bring $220.6 million to $321.5 million, the 72-lot evening sale on May 7 has the second-highest presale target for the category at Sotheby’s in more than five years. The top tally came in May 2012, when Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” sold for $119.9 million, an auction record for any artist at the time, and $330.6 million was generated.