Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol — the best and most brilliant artists adorned the walls of Pauline Karpidas’s Hyde Park apartment in London and, this September, Sotheby's will be selling the paintings and its contents. With some 250 lots, the auction house is calling it ‘the greatest collection of Surrealism to emerge in recent history’. The sale is expected to fetch in excess of £60 million — the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection in the European branch of the auction house.

Highlights include the ethereal beauty of René Magritte’s ‘La Statue volante’ (estimated to be the bestseller of the collection, and to sell for between £9 million and £12 million); Andy Warhol’s pop-art reimagining of ‘The Scream (After Munch)’ (estimated to sell from between £2 mil

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