Sotheby's New York will present the selling exhibition Rudolf Bauer: Tomorrow Today

KOLKATA: Sotheby's New York will present the selling exhibition Rudolf Bauer: Tomorrow Today from 22 September–10 October 2014.

The retrospective, featuring more than 40 masterworks by the German artist, coincides with the 75th anniversary of Art of Tomorrow, the landmark opening exhibition at Solomon Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting.

Having established himself at Galerie Der Sturm in the early-20th century alongside Paul Klee, Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, Bauer was anointed as the foremost non-objective artist and became the centerpiece of Solomon Guggenheim's founding collection.

However, scandal and betrayal led Bauer to abandon painting prematurely, and ultimately caused his legacy to be largely omitted from the modern Solomon R Guggenheim Museum’s program and, indeed, history.

Rudolf Bauer: Tomorrow Today will be presented alongside an exciting series of events in New York this autumn celebrating the life and work of the modernist artist, including a play, a television documentary and a small preview of the artist’s work.

Bauer, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, will have its New York premiere at New York City's 59E59 Theaters, with performances from 2 September to 12 October.

In step, "Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer," a documentary narrated by Linda Hunt, will be broadcast on THIRTEEN, the public television station serving the New York metropolitan area, on Monday, 25 August at 9:00 p.m.

The German Consulate General will also host an exhibition of Rudolf Bauer’s masterpieces from 2–19 September.