Artist Jeff Koons is consigning approximately 100 million dollars of art from his own collection to Christie's New York this November, in a nine-work sale titled Heroes and Lovers. The group spans the Renaissance to the twentieth century, mixing Old Masters with modern painting and sculpture. The top lot is Pablo Picasso's Le Baiser, a 1969 grayscale painting of a passionate kiss, estimated at 40 million dollars. Koons bought the canvas at Sotheby's in 2008 for 17.4 million dollars. Other works include Edouard Manet's 1878-79 work on paper Femme au tub, a sixteenth-century painting by Cornelis van Haarlem of a man wrestling a bull, and a late-Gothic woodcarving of St Catherine by Tilman Riemenschneider. The consignment reflects the collector's taste as much as the market's. The van Haarlem bull scene echoes Koons's own Antiquity (Farnese Bull) of 2009-12, and both the van Haarlem and the Riemenschneider were loaned by Koons to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, strengthening their provenance. Christie's says works from Heroes and Lovers will be offered during its 20th and 21st Century Art auctions in New York this November, with the remaining lots appearing during Classic Week in February 2027. The announcement, first reported by the New York Times on October 5, places one of the season's most valuable artist consignments at the center of New York's November sales. The pricing tells its own story about how artist collections perform at auction. Le Baiser's 40 million dollar estimate is roughly 1.5 times what Koons paid in 2008 in inflation-adjusted terms, reflecting the premium the market attaches to late Picasso canvases. Christie's decision to split the group across its November 20th and 21st Century sales and the February 2027 Classic Week acknowledges the range of the material, which resists a single department. The news broke via the New York Times on October 5 and was quickly picked up across the art press, setting up one of the most closely watched consignments of the November season.