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12 - 22 November 2021 | New York | full auction details

Sotheby’s is delighted to present The Blue Horizon: Pacific Art from an Important Maui Collection, celebrating the special allure of the Pacific Ocean and its legendary artistic cultures. This private collection of classical Oceanic artworks was assembled in dialogue with an important group of works by modern and contemporary Western masters such as Franz Kline, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt, and in reference to the stunning setting of the collector’s residence on Maui. There the natural splendor of the Hawaiian Islands harmonized with bold abstraction, spiritual power, and patinas of ritual use, awakening the universal beauty achieved by the artists of the Pacific Islands.

 

Highlights will include an important Malagan Figure once in the collection of the Surrealist André Breton, a selection of early Gope boards from the Papuan Gulf, several sculptures from the fabled caves of the Karawari River, and a group of early Aboriginal Shields from Australia.

 

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