Last November, Sotheby's auctioned 35 works from the Macklowe Collection, achieving a historic auction result of 676.1 million dollars for works that all came from one collection. The dissolution of the Macklowe Collection, owned by the art-collecting couple Macklowe, was prompted by their divorce. It includes the big names of the last 80 years: from Pablo Picasso, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly to Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons as well as Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. The artists were already part of the auction in November. Now they will be back when another 30 works, the second half of the Macklowe Collection, go under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York on 16 May.
Highlights of the auction include a late self-portrait by Andy Warhol from 1986, estimated at 15 to 20 million dollars, Gerhard Richter's large-scale seascape from 1975 (valued at 25 to 35 million dollars) and two untitled works by Willem de Kooning from 1961 and 1984. Mark Rothko's Untitled from 1960 is also expected to fetch a proud sum of 35 to 50 million dollars. The already known artists will be joined in May by others whose names are still being kept under wraps. Only Jean Dubuffet, whose work Grand Nu Charbonneux is estimated at four to six million dollars, gives a foretaste. Those interested will have the opportunity to get a first glimpse of selected works at the Preview Exhibitions in London (22 February to 2 March), Palm Beach (17 to 20 March), Shanghai (19 and 20 March), Taipei (14 and 15 April) and Hong Kong (24 to 29 April). In London, works from the Modern & Contemporary and The Now auctions, which take place on 2 March, will also be shown. 
