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Hockney, de Kooning highlight NY contemporary art auction

NEW YORK – Works by Gerhard Richter, Willem de Kooning and David Hockney will highlight Sotheby’s contemporary art auction later this month.

The Nov. 17 auction also will feature paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL’ BAH’-skee-aht) and Andy Warhol.

Sotheby’s expects a large-scale landscape by Hockney titled “Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006” to set a new auction record for the British artist. It believes the painting will bring between $9 million and $12 million.

The current Hockney auction record is $7.9 million set in 2009.

The autumnal scene is part of a series of paintings inspired by the countryside of Yorkshire, England. The painting, measuring over 10-feet wide, is composed of six connected canvases. Sotheby’s said Hockney devised the method because of the narrow staircase of his studio.

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