Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Art Auction

This January, Sotheby's returns with its first 2025 edition of Modern and Contemporary Art Auction, featuring an exclusive selection of works that reflect the cosmopolitan nature of Singaporean society and the ever-increasing demand from a growing collector base in the Southeast Asian region. Highlights from these offerings will be available for public viewing in a preview exhibition from 14 January 2025 to before the live auction on 18 January 2025 at 5 Jiak Kim Street.

Under the curatorial theme of 'Landscapes: as far as the heart can see', a section of the exhibition and auction explores the subject of landscape through different lenses across cultures, time, geography, history, and stylistic movements. Leading the sale will be Marc Chagall's La danse autour de la corbeille, created in the artist's last decade. Painted on the day of his wedding anniversary, the work serves as an ode to love dedicated to his second wife and muse, Vava, who originally owned the work. Two rare, fresh-to-market paintings by Raden Saleh, the 19th-century nationalist artist of Indonesia and one of the most important artists in the region, will also be presented to the public for the first time at Sotheby's Singapore after having resided in a significant European private collection for the past century.

Collectors and art enthusiasts can also look forward to works by internationally acclaimed artists, including Christine Ay Tjoe, Fernando Zobel, Le Pho, and Cheong Soo Pieng, as well as ultra-contemporary artists Lucas Arruda, Daisy Dodd-Noble, and Camilla Engstrom, in their auction debut in Singapore. The return of Sotheby's Singapore Modern and Contemporary Art auction follows an exciting few weeks for the art world, including solid results at Sotheby's major auctions in Hong Kong, London, Paris, and New York. For the first time, Sotheby's Singapore auction will coincide with Singapore Art Week, reaffirming their commitment to celebrating arts and culture in the city-state and the region.