The director of the National Portrait Gallery, whom President Trump said he had fired, has decided to step aside to "best serve" the Smithsonian museum she has led since 2013.
Roy Lichtenstein, Seductive Girl (Study) (1996), $677,000 to $947,800 estimate, is due to be sold at Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on June 24, 2025. Graphite and coloured pencil on denril, 17.1 x 24.1cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
Gilbert And George, GB (2008), $40,600 to $67,700 estimate, is due to be sold at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale in London on June 26, 2025. Hand-dyed gelatin silver print, in artists' frame, in 15 parts, 190.5 x 377.0cm. The work has been traded twice in the past.
James Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 39, were part of the gang who planned and carried out the theft of Maurizo Cattelan's golden toilet, America, when on show at Blenheim Palace near Oxford.
Peter Doig, Moonlit Dead Armadillo (1986), $27,100 to $40,600 estimate, is due to be sold at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale in London on June 26, 2025. Oil on denim, laid down on board with nails, 43.2 x 49.1cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
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