Sotheby's has set out its stall for The London Sales, three days of auctions running from 14 to 16 October that will bring works by Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, David Hockney and others to the block. The house published a ten-lot highlight selection chosen by its specialists on 8 October, following what it described as record-setting results in Hong Kong. The series opens on 14 October with the Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction, featuring works by Laurence Lowry, Barbara Hepworth and Bridget Riley among others. The Contemporary Evening sale follows on 15 October with collections built around Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, before a special sale devoted to David Hockney's iPad flower drawings closes the run on 16 October. Among the ten highlights are Lynn Chadwick's Little Girl II (1987), a seated female figure in rough metal that embodies the sculptor's mature shift toward figuration, and Frank Auerbach's Head of Julia (1980), with its thick impasto and scraped-back passages. Henry Moore's Maquette for Mother with Child (1982) and Ivon Hitchens's Figure, Courtyard – Greenleaves (circa 1935-40) represent the modern British day sale. The contemporary evening is anchored by Willem de Kooning's Untitled (1977), from the artist's celebrated late-1970s burst of large-scale colour-saturated canvases, and Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild (1992), first shown at Documenta IX and later at Richter's Museum of Modern Art retrospective. Hockney's two dated flower still lifes from February and April 2021 — iPad drawings made in Normandy during the pandemic — headline the dedicated flower sale, while Donald Judd's Untitled (1989), an example of his iconic Menziken wall boxes, rounds out the selection.