Next in our #SothebysWrapped🎁 countdown to 2026 is EROS/THANATOS, the unique selling exhibition that took over #SothebysHongKong Maison in September. Inspired by the writings of Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, the works on display captured moments of divine ecstasy and rapturous dissolution. From the seductive, violent energy of Francis Bacon’s ‘Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe’ (1968), to the haunting skull of a Late Pleistocene Woolly Mammoth, EROS/THANATOS reveled in the sublime contradiction of love, life, art and death. Photography by nicolas.k.s.chow