NEW YORK, 6 JUNE 2017— On 27 September 2017, Sotheby’s will offer Contemporary Art and Design from the collection of trailblazing fashion icon Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, who passed away earlier this year. The single-owner sequence in the Contemporary Curated sale, entitled Neither Appearance nor Illusion: Property from the Collection of Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, will feature works by the likes of Antony Gormley, On Kawara, John McCracken, Ed Ruscha, Claude Lalanne, and Fernando & Humberto Campana among others.

Along with his mother, Mr. Barberi Gonzalez founded the luxury handbag line Nancy Gonzalez, serving as President and Creative Director of the firm that became one of the world’s leading luxury accessories brands, best-known for their use of precious and exotic skins. This carefully curated collection, which explores such conceptual themes as displacement, place and time, is expected to bring $2/3 million.

David Schrader, Sotheby’s Senior Vice President, commented: “Those of us lucky enough to have known Santiago Barberi Gonzalez knew a visionary whose impeccable taste extended across the worlds of fashion, art and design. The breadth of the collection is a natural extension of a fiercely creative life, the legacy of which will endure for generations.”