Overview

• Sotheby’s Europe will hold the sale on September 17 and 18 with public viewings in early September
• The 250 lots include Surrealist and postwar works by René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol alongside custom furniture
• The auction is expected to raise roughly £60 million, marking the highest estimate for a single-owner sale in Sotheby’s European history
• René Magritte’s “La Statue volante” (1940-41) leads the sale with an estimate of £9-12 million and a provenance tracing back to dealer Alexander Iolas
• Pauline Karpidas, a private “grande dame” patron guided by Alexander Iolas, previously sold her Hydra residence collection in 2023 for €35.6 million