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The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale

Sotheby’s New York, New York

Auction: Mon 29 Jun 2020

Exhibition: Mon 29 Jun 2020 - Mon 29 Jun 2020

1334 York Avenue, NY 10021 The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale

Mon-Fri 10am-5pm

29 June 2020 | New York | full auction details

Sotheby’s is honored to offer more than 450 works from the celebrated collection of Ginny Williams across a series of sales throughout 2020, beginning with a dedicated evening auction to be held in New York on 29 June. A pioneering collector and gallerist born in rural Virginia in 1927, Ginny Williams was a larger-than-life personality and dynamic force in the contemporary art and photographs communities in Denver, Colorado, where she lived and worked from the late-1950s onwards, as well as on the East Coast, including her time on the boards of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. As an avid photographer herself, who studied with Austrian-American photojournalist and photographer Ernst Haas, Williams’s collecting journey began with classical figurative photography, which led her to open the Ginny Williams Gallery in Denver in the 1980s. She later developed a passion for collecting Abstract Expressionist and Contemporary art, with a particular focus on the work of pioneering female modernists such as Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, and Louise Bourgeois, whose career she impacted as both patron and friend. By the time of her passing in 2019, Williams had assembled the largest collection of works by Bourgeois in private hands, set the auction record for Helen Frankenthaler, and amassed an extensive collection in which the majority of works are by women artists.
Williams's collection of works by trailblazing female modernists will form the centerpiece of the Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale - immediately preceding the Contemporary Art Evening Auction – on 29 June. Additional dedicated auctions include Photographs from The Ginny Williams Collection this July, featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti alongside iconic images of the early-20th century by Edward Weston and Herbert Bayer, as well as The Ginny Williams Collection Online Sale, open for bidding this summer. Property from the Ginny Williams Collection will highlight a number of various-owner auctions throughout the year, most notably a group of nearly 50 works offered in our Contemporary Art Day Auction on 30 June. 
For assistance with bidding and registration, please contact:+1 212 606 7414bids.newyork@sothebys.com
For all enquiries please contact the Contemporary Art department at +1 212-606-7254
Grégoire BillaultSenior Vice PresidentHead of Contemporary ArtGrégoire.Billault@sothebys.com
Amy CappellazzoChairman, Executive Vice PresidentFine Arts DivisionAmy.Cappellazzo@sothebys.com
Leslie ProutySenior Vice PresidentSenior SpecialistContemporary ArtLeslie.Prouty@sothebys.com
Michael MacaulaySenior Vice PresidentSenior International SpecialistContemporary ArtMichael.Macaulay@sothebys.com
Saara PritchardSenior Vice PresidentSenior SpecialistContemporary ArtSaara.Pritchard@sothebys.com
David GalperinSenior Vice PresidentHead of Evening SaleContemporary ArtDavid.Galperin@sothebys.com347-404-8805
Kelsey LeonardAssociate SpecialistContemporary ArtKelsey.Leonard@sothebys.com
Lucius ElliottAssociate Specialist & ResearcherContemporary ArtLucius.Elliott@sothebys.com646-420-4644
Carly GamsonResearcherContemporary ArtCarly.Gamson@sothebys.com

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