(15 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 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. Wide of Pauline Karpidas exhibition’s main hall, featuring a large decorative sofa and various artworks presented on the wall behind
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 1-2 & 4-5++
3. 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."
4. Wide of Pauline Karpidas’ bespoke Mattia Bonetti bookcase, with Max Ernst’s Loplop présente, estimates at £60,000 – 80,000
5. Pan of bust sculpture place on shelf of Mattia Bonetti bookcase
6. Various of Andy Warhol’s 1929 ‘Madonna and Self-Portrait with Skeleton’s Arm’, estimated at £1.5 – 2 million
7. Wide pan showing Jeff Koons’ ‘Poodle’ estimated at £1.5 million
++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 6-7 & 9-11++
8. 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."
9. 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
10. Various of Claude Lalanne’s bespoke bed frame owl design
11. Wide of Claude Lalanne bed frame
STORYLINE:
Tiger-print carpets and surrealist paintings have transformed the main exhibition hall at Sotheby’s.
The space is a reconstruction of Pauline Karpidas’ London home, where she displayed a collection that mixed twentieth century masters with bold commissions and design pieces.
Karpidas, who divided her time between London and the Greek island of Hydra, was a philanthropist and a patron of contemporary art.
She ran an artist residency programme, backed experimental work, and filled her apartment with a collection that spanned Picasso and Magritte through to bespoke furniture by Claude Lalanne.
Among the highlights here are Francis Picabia’s Homme et femme au bord de la mer, valued between £800,000 and £1.2 million, and Picasso’s Buste d’homme, estimated at up to £2.5 million.
Her Mattia Bonetti bookcase is paired with Max Ernst’s Loplop présente, while Giorgio de Chirico’s Nudo carries an estimate of £600,000 to £800,000.
The recreation extends to her bedroom, where Claude Lalanne’s commissioned bed frame, with its owl motif, stands alongside sculptures by Grayson Perry.
Pop art also features prominently.
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