A large-scale landscape by David Hockney titled "Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 October, 2006" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Sotheby's expects the work to set a new auction record for the British artist. It believes the painting will bring between $9 million and $12 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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NEW YORK (AP) - 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 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.
It was included in a Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2012. Next February, the Tate Britain plans a retrospective of the artist's works.
Two works by Richter, the German abstract painter, are being offered with a pre-sale estimate of between $20 million and $30 million.
"A B, St. James," a richly textured painting of red, orange, yellow, green and aquamarine blue, belongs to a series of "London Paintings" that Richter created after visiting the England capital in 1987. It is one of five executed with a horizontal orientation.
"A B, Still" is a brighter work dominated by a fiery red and cool blue with yellow scattered across the canvas.
A monumental six-panel frieze by Basquiat titled "Brother's Sausage" is estimated to sell for between $15 million and $20 million. The young artist created it in 1983, touching on themes of prejudice, inequality and greed.
"Untitled," an expressive oil painting bursting with color by de Kooning from 1976-1977 is estimated at $8 million to $12 million.
A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, "Girls on the Bridge," is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The auction house expects the painting to sell for more than $50 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Maurice De Vlaminck's "The Orchard" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The 1906 oil on canvas is estimated at $7million-$10 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Pablo Picasso's "The Painter and His Model" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The 1963 oil on canvas is estimated at $12 million-$18 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Tamara de Lempicka's "Portrait of Guido Sommi," right, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The 1925 work is estimated at $4 million - $6 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's "EM 1 Telephonbild" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Conceived in 1922 and executed in 1923, it is estimated $3 million-$4 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Vincent van Gogh's "Still Life: Vase with Gladioli" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The 1886 work is is estimated at $5 million-$7 million. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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An early cubist composition by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, "Untitled (Cubist Composition)," right, from 1916 that is estimated to bring $500,000 to $700,000, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Pablo Picasso's "Head of a Woman" is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. The 1951 bronze bust of his lover and muse Francoise Gilot could fetch $6 million to $8 million at auction on Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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