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Highsnobiety and Selfridges present:

Sotheby's and Highsnobiety

Bidding paddles at the ready: Highsnobiety has teamed up with the world’s leading art auction house, Sotheby’s, to bring you a catalogue of streetwear-inspired T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. True collectors’ items, each limited-edition piece features a work by the Old Masters dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Each of the works featured will be up for sale at Sotheby’s Master Paintings Evening Sale, Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale and Old Masters Online Sale, beginning 29 January. The auction fever is rising…

The collaboration comes at a time when street artists are reaching record auction prices – KAWS, Banksy and Invader all went under the hammer last year – and the worlds of fashion and art become increasingly blurred. 

So, join us as we take you on a rather fashionable tour of the highlights of the Highsnobiety x Sotheby’s collection. Shop them at The Selfridges Corner Shop at Selfridges London now, or online from 27 January, before they’re (going, going) gone!



This partnership with Highsnobiety is an opportunity to showcase Old Master paintings as remarkably modern, graphic works of art that can be enjoyed outside their mythological and historical context.

– David Pollack, Sotheby’s Senior Vice President and Specialist for Old Master Paintings

Unknown 
Untitled 
16th Century
Netherlandish School

Here we have a rather fine cotton-jersey hoody depicting a skeleton draped in a billowing white fabric – a classic trope of the 16th century Netherlandish School of painting. A memento mori, it reminds us of the transcience of life and the inevitability of death.

Ginevra Cantolofi, 
A Sea-Nymph 
1608 – 1672
Bologna, Italy

Next up, this rather modern interpretation of Ginevra Cantolofi’s A Sea-Nymph in T-shirt form. This masterpiece most likely depicts Galatea – in Greek mythology she is the Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis – whose disarming gaze at the viewer shows off her crown of diverse mollusk shells while holding a coral.

Unknown, 
An Imaginary Landscape with Allegories of Abundance and Charity 
circa. 1600
Prague School

This is a rather brilliant, sartorial depiction of An Imaginary Landscape with Allegories of Abundance and Charity, which dates back to around the year 1600. From the Prague School, it shows an elaborate allegorical scene of a female figure with golden hair and a crown of red flowers – a classic symbol of abundance and charity.



We at Highsnobiety always seek to align our brand with the most iconic and best in every field, while surprising our audience with partnerships and collaborations that they would not expect every day. In that regard, Sotheby’s is a perfect fit and a brand that we are extremely proud to be working with.

– David Fischer, Highsnobiety CEO and Founder

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