Pricking the art market bubble?
However, Michael Macauley, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, says: “Watch this space, we are expecting more to come in before the sale.” The top lot is David Hockney’s 1968 painting from the south of France, L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime (1968) with an almost Ruscha-esque vibe to the depiction of a building with large umbrella pines in the foreground.