In The Gallery: The Summer Season with Andrew Graham-Dixon

Author Andrew Graham-Dixon takes us on a grand tour of highlights from The Summer Season at Sotheby’s London. Coinciding with the re-opening of the National Portrait Gallery in London on 22 June, and forming part of their Portrait Mode programme, this summer Sotheby’s will host a celebration of portraiture with a season of exhibitions and events, complementing the traditional marquee auctions of fine art. Comprising this season are a plethora of categories, including the major proponent of the season’s theme, the Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, featuring Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture, a sequence of works dedicated to the artform of portraiture presenting a tightly curated selection of masterpieces exploring the connections between artist and subjects, spanning the birth of Modernism in the early twentieth century through to the evolution of Abstraction and Pop Art. Bringing together a tightly curated selection of works by the best artists of the 21st century is The Now Evening Au