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Anita Zabludowicz Putting 100 Works Up for Auction Next Month

The sale is billed by Christie’s as the highlight of its summer season and is expected to raise up to nearly £20mn

The Art Journal28 May, 2026
A figure seen from behind with thick red-brown hair rests their head on folded arms against a pale blue-grey background, rendered in bold, expressive brushstrokes.

Philip Guston, Mirror Head, 1977, oil on canvas, 172.7 × 284.5 cm. Courtesy The Guston Foundation and Christie’s

Anita and Poju Zabludowicz will sell 100 works through Christie’s next month, as reported by the Financial Times. 

The sale is billed by Christie’s as the highlight of its summer season and is expected to raise up to nearly £20mn. Standout pieces include Philip Guston’s Mirror Head (1997) – estimated at £3.5mn to £5.5mn – and Richard Prince's Untitled (Cowboy) (1994) – between £800,000 and £1.2mn.

The Zabludowiczs previously ran a permanent space in London for more than a decade and a half, before closing in 2023 amid controversy surrounding ties to Israel and its military. Since 2014, they had faced calls from a group called Boycott Divest Zabludowicz, resulting in a group of artists ‘deauthoring’ works in the collection in 2021.

This is the first auction sale from the Zabludowicz family collection, which encompasses around 5,000 works.

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