Led by distinguished specialists, this department focuses on the revolutionary artistic movements from 1946 onward, including Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge abstraction, and international responses to American artistic leadership.
Record achievements include a 1962 oil-on-canvas by Irascibles member Hedda Sterne for $100,000, and Alma W. Thomas’s Reflections (1960) for $557,000 and works by Esteban Vicente, Jimmy Ernst, and other pivotal figures who redefined artistic possibility in the post-war era.
