May Auctions: Modern and Contemporary Art at Sotheby's and Il Ponte

Il Ponte's auction on May 25-26 in Milan features Italian 20th-century art, including Renato Guttuso's 1956 'Coltivazione del limone napoletano' (€50-70,000), three Piero Manzoni works (Linea lunga metri 5,70 from 1959, €60-80,000; two Achromes from 1960 and 1961, €80-100,000 and €50-70,000), Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto Spaziale' (1956, €40-50,000), Giorgio Morandi's three still lifes (1945-1947), Piero Dorazio's 'Equidistanza' (1963, €70-90,000), and Giulio Paolini's 'Zeusi e Parrasio' (2007, €120-150,000). International highlights include Andy Warhol's 'Rorschach painting' (c. 1980, €80-100,000), Sam Francis's 'Untitled – Blue, Yellow and White' (1956, €150-250,000), Hermann Nitsch's 'Senza titolo (Schüttbild mit Malhemd)' (2009, €40-60,000), and Joseph Beuys's 'Bruno Corà – Tee' (1975, €10-15,000). Sotheby's Milan holds an online contemporary art session from May 20-27, featuring Afro's 'Villalta' (1958, €500-750,000), Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto spaziale' (1963, €300-400,000), Leoncillo's 'San Sebastiano bianco' (1962, €200-250,000), Giorgio Morandi's oil on canvas still life (1942, €800-1,000,000), Cy Twombly's 'Sperlonga Drawing' (1959, €450-650,000), and Roman Opalka's 'OPALKA 1965 / 1 – ∞ Détail 185086 – 218302' (€400-600,000).