Sotheby's hold virtual sale of art from Rembrandt to Banksy

auction house Soby’s is holding an online sale featuring artwork that spans five centuries of art history, from Rembrandt to Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Banksy.

After months of disruption due to coronavirus outbreak, sale of 70 artworks - from 17th century up to present day - will be live-streamed Tuesday from Soby’s London.

“With global art world calendar having shifted, we too have seized opportunity to do things differently,” said Helena Newman, chair of Soby’s Europe. auction caters to “a new generation of a collectors (who) show less concern with tritional art market categories of past,” she ded.

most valuable paintings include Miró’s “Peinture (Femme au chapeau rouge)” from 1927, estimated to sell for 20 to 30 million pounds ($25-37.5 million), and a self-portrait by Rembrandt from 1632, one of only three in private hands. Rembrandt is estimated to fetch up to 12 million pounds ($20 million.)

auction also includes a triptych by Banksy called “Mediterranean Sea View,” painted in 2017. panel of three paintings, presented in elaborate tritional frames, features orange life jackets and alludes to lives lost at sea during European migrant crisis. Proceeds from paintings, expected to fetch from $1 to $1.5 million, will raise money for a hospital in Bethlehem.

Soby’s London said some two-thirds of art on sale has never been at auction before. Of rest, most h been off market for two deces.