Overview
- Christie’s announced Tuesday that eight paintings from the late music executive Clive Davis’s estate will headline its 20th Century Evening Sale in New York this November.
- The eight lots include high‑profile works such as David Hockney’s portrait of Andy Warhol and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Aretha Franklin and are collectively estimated at more than $35 million.
- Christie’s has not released individual estimates for each work and said additional pieces from the collection will appear in its October Prints and Multiples sale and the Post‑War and Contemporary Day Sale in November.
- The estate is described as largely unseen by the public and spans Pop art, abstraction and Neo‑Expressionism with works by Jean‑Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Frank Stella and others.
- The sale links Davis’s prominence as a talent‑spotting music executive to his taste as a collector and is likely to draw strong market attention during Christie’s Fall Marquee Week.