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Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce this morning that on November 3 and November 4, 2010 it will present for sale The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art.

The two-day single-owner sale of approximately 400 lots will offer a collector’s unique vision of the innovation and diversity that has characterised British Art over the last 60 years: beginning with the work of the ground-breaking British artists active in the years immediately after the Second World War and also including examples by a new generation of artists who are still working in Britain today.

Prices will range from £100 to £350,000 – making the sale accessible to all – and the sale is expected to bring in the region of £4 million.  The proceeds of the sale will go towards the founding of The African Arts Trust, a charitable organisation that Mr Devereux is in the process of establishing and which will be devoted to supporting the arts in Africa.

Mr Devereux, a former partner in Richard Branson’s Virgin empire, has been an art aficionado since he was a young man.  A collector in the truest sense, he has quietly assembled the eclectic and dynamic collection that covers the array of artistic movements in Britain since the 1950s.

Please find the press release for the sale attached.  This includes a quote from Mr Devereux (on his reasons for selling and his launch of The African Arts Trust) and also Sotheby’s Oliver Barker.  Do let me know if you have any questions on this very exciting single-owner sale.