Bonhams November sale leads with $2.8m Condo, spans Impressionists to contemporary
The New York auction house's 20th and 21st Century Evening Sale on November 18 features a six-foot-tall George Condo portrait alongside works by de Kooning, Banksy, and Impressionist masters.
Bonhams will host its 20th and 21st Century Evening Sale on November 18 at 111 West 57th Street in New York, according to a press release. The auction follows an inaugural May sale this year that set records for the department and built on strong November 2025 results.
The sale opens with Big Face, 2015, by George Condo, carrying an estimate of $2,800,000 to $3,500,000. The painting is distinguished within Condo’s body of work by its heavily impastoed, near-sculptural finish, drawing on Picasso’s legacy. After more than a decade in one private collection, it will reach the auction block for the first time.
Major works across modernism and contemporary practice
Among other headliners, Willem de Kooning’s Marsh Landscape, 1966, is estimated at $1,200,000 to $1,800,000. Created after de Kooning relocated from New York to East Hampton, the painting belongs to the landscape series he developed during this period. According to Bonhams, it has been held by the same collector for four decades and carries substantial exhibition history.
The auction also presents Banksy’s Angel, 2006, estimated at $1,200,000 to $1,800,000. Purchased directly from the artist in 2006, the work appeared in Barely Legal, the artist’s landmark Los Angeles show that year.
Impressionist and Modern paintings with documented histories
A selection of Impressionist and Modern works rounds out the sale, each with established provenance. Henri Matisse’s Lydia en blouse brodée, 1936, depicts his longtime model Lydia Delectorskaya in pen and ink. After more than 70 years in private hands, it will be offered at auction for the first time, with an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000.
Two additional works from a 30-year-old Atlanta collection also appear in the sale. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Nature morte à la cafetière et tasse, painted around 1910, carries an estimate of $180,000 to $250,000. Camille Pissarro’s Après le bain, from approximately 1896–97, is valued at $120,000 to $180,000. According to Bonhams, the Renoir and Pissarro have been shown publicly just once, in an exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa.
Additional highlights
Kenneth Noland’s Passage, 1963, is estimated at $700,000 to $1,000,000. Frank Stella’s Untitled (Basra Gate Series), from circa 1969, carries an estimate of $600,000 to $800,000. Roy Lichtenstein’s Water Lilies with Cloud, 1992, is valued at $500,000 to $700,000, and Takashi Murakami’s TBC (Flower), 2018, is estimated at $350,000 to $550,000.
This article was compiled by the CityLifeBytes editorial desk from the official announcements and reporting listed under Sources.
