Sotheby’s will offer the first work from David Hockney’s “Woldgate Woods” series to appear at auction during its Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on November 17.“Woldgate Woods 24, 25, and 26” 2006 will be offered with an estimate of 9-12 million, positioning the work to achieve a new auction record for the artist.Measuring more than 3.5 metres in diameter, the six-panel “Woldgate Woods 24, 25, and 26” 2006 was included in the Royal Academy’s 2012 exhibition “David Hockney: A Bigger Picture.”Produced as part of a limited series of paintings of Woldgate Woods in East Yorkshire, the epic work captures the autumnal colours of the region.Grégoire Billault, Head of the Contemporary Art Department, said: “David Hockney stands alongside Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as one of the pillars of post-war British art.“Ten years after we redefined the market for his work with The Splash, Sotheby’s is set to once again establish a new record with Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26, 2006.“With the opening of the Tate retrospective early next year, along with collectors’ tremendous appetite for quality, now is the perfect time to present one of the great accomplishments of the artist’s late career.”
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