2026 Benefit Auction: "The World Is The Work"
Tue, Sep 29, 2026 12:00PM EDT - Wed, Oct 14, 2026 12:00PM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 132
Emily Sundblad, "Sobranie", 2026
Estimate: $10,000 - $10,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $100 |
| $1,000 | $200 |
| $2,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,500 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
| $200,000 | $20,000 |
Emily Sundblad
Sobranie, 2026
Watercolor and pencil on paper
41 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches (106 x 78 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery
Selected by Ivy Shapiro
Emily Sundblad (b. 1977, Dalsjöfors, Sweden, based in New York) is a painter, gallerist, and musician. Her trajectory as an artist is emblematic of the downtown decadence that ran from the ART CLUB2000 to Bernadette Corporation’s runway critiques of the neoliberal art market. She moved to New York from Sweden in 1998 to study at Parsons while forging a theatrical and subversive persona in New York nightlife. She founded Reena Spaulings Fine Art with John Kelsey in 2004, which straddled the lines between parody, post-conceptualism, critical theory, cynicism, gaiety, and queer fashion – an early aughts re-vision of both irony, authorship, and theatrics.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Bortolami, New York; Emanuela Campoli, Paris; House of Gaga, Guadalajara; Weiss Falk, Zürich; Galerie Hussenot, Paris and House of Gaga, Los Angeles; Bortolami, New York; Weiss Falk, Basel; Campoli Presti, Paris and Galerie Neu, Berlin; House of Gaga, Mexico City and Campoli Presti, London with Reena Spaulings; Matthew Marks, Los Angeles with Reena Spaulings; and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
Overall Dimensions
Height: 41.75 in
Width: 30.75 in
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