NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the summer season of FIRST OPEN, encompassing a standout selection of contemporary art, prints, and photographs with a wide range of styles and price points offered in three online-only sales. The sales opened for bidding starting July 9, with Contemporary Edition closing on July 17, FIRST OPEN | Post-War & Contemporary Art closing on July 18, and MoMA: Tracing Photography’s History closing on July 19. All lots are on view to the public at 20 Rockefeller Plaza throughout the duration of the online auction from July 13-17.

Contemporary Edition | Online | 9 July – 17 July
Contemporary Edition features over 200 striking prints and multiples from the art world’s leading post-war and contemporary artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, and Jonas Wood. With estimates starting under $1,000, the sale features something for those just beginning their collecting journey and seasoned collectors alike.

First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 9 July – 18 July
The July First Open auction in New York provides an opportunity for collectors in pursuit of works by both emerging and established post-war and contemporary artists. The summer-themed selection includes works by Damien Hirst, George Condo, Josef Albers, Jennifer Bartlett, KAWS, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg and Jack Hamilton Bush among others. Also highlighting the sale is an important selection of works from the collection of Ileana Sonnabend and the Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell, as well as a dynamic group of works on paper from the collection of Martina Yamin.

MoMA: Tracing photography’s history | 9 July – 19 July
Since the Fall of 2017, Christie’s has been honored to be entrusted with a series of thematic auctions of works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York collection, being sold to benefit the acquisition fund for the Museum’s Department of Photography. The final online-only sale MoMA: Tracing Photography's History features works by seminal photographers including Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Edward Steichen, among others. The photographers represented have made extraordinary contributions to the canon of Modern art while playing substantial roles in the early formation and evolution of the Museum’s distinguished Department of Photography.