The Mo Ostin Collection Evening Auction & The Modern Evening Auction

This May, Sotheby’s will offer The Mo Ostin Collection across both a dedicated evening sale and single-owner sequence in the Contemporary Day Auction, allowing for a rare glimpse of the extraordinary art collector behind the more familiar entertainment industry powerhouse. The dedicated evening sale will feature definitive masterworks by artists who, like the musicians Ostin worked with, pushed their practice into new territory, among them René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cecily Brown. An additional group of inventive, boundary-pushing works by Joe Bradley, Jeff Elrod, Richard Estes, Mark Grotjahn, Brice Marden, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, and others, will be offered in a dedicated sequence in Sotheby’s Contemporary Day Auction.

Featuring highlights from the Collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, the Modern Evening Auction will present artworks that capture the spirit of artists working around the globe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who dared to challenge established norms of artistic practice to create a new and wholly modern vision of art. Tracing the historic throughlines and cross-continental dialogues between artists working across Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism, the Modern sale will spotlight these critical developments of the last 150 years, uniting those masterworks that define art history as we know it today.