Edvard Munch's Madonna

Several weeks after Christie's captivated art world attention with its record-breaking $484 million sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in Paris, Sotheby's is promoting its own kind of splashy, big-money event: a two-week exhibition of loans from the collection of hedge funder Steve Cohen and his wife, Alexandra.

Entitled "Women," the show, at the auction house's New York headquarters, will present 20 blue-chip works that feature the fairer sex. Among them are Edvard Munch's Madonna (1895–97), Picasso's Le Repos (1932; bought at Christie's in May 2006 for $34,736,000), Warhol's Turquoise Marilyn (1964; purchased for an estimated $80 million in a private sale in 2007, according to Bloomberg), Lucian Freud's racy Portrait of Rose (1978–79), and Richard Prince's Spiritual America (1983), featuring a rephotographed nude, prepubescent Brooke Shields.

The Cohens' collection has never before been exhibited in public. The show runs April 2–14.

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