Picasso, Warhol and Magritte lead Sotheby’s sale of Pauline Karpidas’ stunning collection

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Picasso, Warhol and Magritte lead Sotheby’s sale of Pauline Karpidas’ stunning collection  The sale features works by Picasso, Warhol, Magritte and Jeff Koons, alongside bespoke design pieces by French designer Claude Lalanne.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/16/picasso-warhol-and-magritte-lead-sothebys-sale-of-pauline-karpidas-stunning-collection  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00In staging this exhibition we really wanted to bring Pauline's world to life so she lived in

00:18quite an extraordinary setting in her home overlooking Hyde Park and really our mission

00:24was to bring the collection to life in our galleries and follow really how Pauline herself had

00:32had the artworks displayed in her home.

00:47What is amazing about the Lalanne design in her home is that all of it was specially commissioned

00:54by her for the spaces.

00:57The bed behind which is one of the most iconic works in her collection was commissioned from

01:02the Lalanne in 2012.

01:04You can see here that it's this wonderful mixture of organic and surrealist bringing the outside

01:10into her home and the particularly lovely detail of the owl on the bed looking over her whilst

01:16she slept and the owl is seen as being this sort of messenger from the dream world watching

01:21her whilst she sleeps.

01:33So this is the first time in 15 years that work from the series comes up to the market.

01:39There are only five of them.

01:41One is the museum collection, the other four are in private collections including this one

01:44so it's a very rare opportunity to see a work like this at auction.

01:51To be able to see a great!

01:52There are only six of these two of them!

01:53There are also many, many of them that have been the most inclusive.

01:54To be able to see a project for this beautiful place, I'd love to see a great

01:55project for this from the UK, but of the rest of the country.

01:56I am the only one of them!

01:57Did you know this one with our favourite family?

01:58I will be able to see a project for this month in the coming two of years that

02:01It is the basic project for this month.

02:03Let me see a project for this month!

02:06I am the only one with the first time!

02:10Let me see a project for this month.

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