LOCATION: SOTHEBY'S AT THE BREUER, 945 MADISON AVENUE, 
NEW YORK
BOOTH: 201
DATES: 25 – 27 SEPTEMBER 2026
VIP DAY: 24 SEPTEMBER

At this year’s Independent 20th Century, New York, Alison Jacques presents a solo exhibition of oil, acrylic and textile paintings spanning 1976 – 1987 by Bona de Mandiargues (b.1926, Rome; d.2000, Paris), coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth and the publication of her first English monograph by Eiderdown Books.

Long overlooked, Bona has recently received renewed international attention following her inclusion in the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere (2024), and Surréalisme at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2024). Her first institutional retrospective was held at the Nivola Museum in Sardinia (2023). Alongside figures such as Leonora Carrington, Meret Oppenheim, and Dorothea Tanning, Bona is now regarded as one of the key protagonists of female Surrealism. Although Bona emerged from Surrealism, she moved far beyond it, developing her own unique language: a personal cosmology in which painting, stitching, and cutting become acts of psychological and spiritual transformation in her pursuit of the meaning of the ‘self’.