(14 Sep 2025)
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London, UK – 12 September 2025
1. Wide pan of the Pauline Karpidas exhibition’s main hall in Sotheby’s auction house, which features a reimagining of Pauline Karpidas’ Salon in her London home, with masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Dorothea Tanning, René Magritte and Alberto Giacometti among others; furniture and design pieces by Claude Lalanne, Jacques Grange and Mattia Bonetti
2. Various of decorative lampshade and a 1935 Francis Picabia painting titled Homme et femme au bord de la mer, estimated to go for sale between £800,000 – 1.2 million
3. Tilt of Pablo Picasso’s 1986 partwork titled Buste d’homme, estimated at £1.5-2.5 million
4. Tilt of decorative cabinet
5. Various of Pauline Karpidas’ bespoke Mattia Bonetti bookcase, with Max Ernst’s Loplop présente, estimates at £60,000 – 80,000
6. Wide of Pauline Karpidas exhibition’s main hall, featuring a large decorative sofa and various artworks presented on the wall behind
7. Various of Giorgio de Chirico’s 1911 painting titled ‘Nudo’ estimated £600,000 – 800,000
8. SOUNDBITE (English) George North, Head of Collection Sales at Sotheby’s:
"In staging this exhibition, we really wanted to bring Pauline’s world to life. She lived in quite an extraordinary setting in her home overlooking Hyde Park and really our mission was to bring the collection to life in our galleries and follow really how Pauline herself had had the artworks displayed in her home."
9. Wide pan of exhibition hall recreating Karpidas’ London study and large windows
10. Tilt of large windows from other side, showing Hyde Park recreation
11. Various of large garden sculpture
12. Various of François-Xavier Lalanne’s 2001 sculpture titled ‘Ganesh’, estimated £50,000 – £70,000
13. SOUNDBITE (English) George North, Head of Collection Sales at Sotheby’s:
"The artworks themselves take up more space than we’d appreciated. But you’ll see around us, we’ve taken the tiger print carpet that ran throughout her home and laid it out in this, our main gallery, where we’ve recreated her salon. And the salon is flanked by windows, much like they flanked her apartment. And we’ve recreated Hyde Park through the windows. So really this space is a recreation of how she lived with the art."
14. Wide tilt of a reimagining of Pauline Karpidas’ bedroom in her London home, with masterworks by Andy Warhol, René Magritte and Francis Picabia as well as sculpture by Grayson Perry and bespoke furniture designed by Claude Lalanne
15. Mid tilt of Claude Lalanne’s bespoke bed frame owl design
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Fischel, Impressionist and Modern Art Specialist at Sotheby’s:
"What is amazing about the Lalanne design in her home is that all of it was specially commissioned by her for the spaces. The bed behind, which is one of the most iconic works in her collection on the design side by Claude Lalanne was commissioned from the Lalanne’s in 2012. You can see here that it’s this wonderful mixture of organic and surrealist bringing the outside into her home. And the particularly lovely detail of the owl on the bed looking over her whilst she slept, and the owl is seen as being this sort of messenger from the dream world watching her whilst she sleeps."
17. Wide of bed with three sculptures by Grayson Perry in the background, titled ‘Them and Us’, £150,000 – 200,000
18. Various of Andy Warhol’s 1984 ‘The Scream’ painting estimated £2-3 million
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Aleksandra Ziemiszewska, Contemporary Art Specialist:
20. Various closes of Andy Warhol’s 1984 ‘The Scream’ painting estimated £2-3 million
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