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The auction house Meeting Art in Vercelli is about the close the year 2009 with its last December auction dedicated to modern and contemporary art. A selection of 500 lots will be auctioned in four sessions, starting from Saturday 19th until Sunday 27th December. Many prominent names of the Italian and international art scene will be there. Closing the year with an auction of modern and contemporary art is anticipated to be a good choice – in spite of the forecasts for 2009 which saw the contemporary sector as the one that was most heavily affected by the crisis – considering that the last event of Meeting Art dedicated to this genre, in October, achieved 75.57% of sold lots totalling 1,364,750 euros, a better result even than the old master auction.
The first session will see in first place, with the most important estimate (140,000-150,000 euros), a work by Christo from 1973, Wrapped office chair project which will start from an auction base of 80,000 euros: a wrapped up chair which, thanks to the use of a mixed technique and collage, emerges – physically – from the monochromatic background. Among the Italians, Arnaldo Pomodoro will stand out with a bronze sculpture, based on a plexiglass pedestal, entitled Tavola dei disegni 1960 II, which starting from an auction base of 40,000 euros will try to reach the estimated value between 80,000 and 90,000 euros.
Undisputed star of the second session, to be held on Sunday 20th December, is the variegated Italian trio Carrà-Guttuso-Adami. Valerio Adami makes way for more costly works with his Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, a work which plays with red and yellow tones, presented with a value oscillating between 40,000 and 50,000 euros. Richer, as pre-announced, the estimate for Guttuso and Carrà: Donna Seduta dated 1959, a beautiful 60×50 oil by Renato Guttuso, with a material mystic female figure, is at auction with an estimate of 80,000-90,000 euros, exceeded by the 110,000-120,000 euros of the following lot, a soft and unravelled Paesaggio by Carlo Carrà dated 1957.
The third and fourth sessions will end the auction on a high note straight after Christmas, on 26th and 27th December. On Boxing Day, collectors will be able to get themselves a prestigious canvas by Emilio Vedova dated from 1972, starting from an auction base of 80,000 euros. This intricate play of whites, reds and blacks is estimated at 130,000-140,000 euros.
To crown it all, on the final day, the very last lots will capture the audience’s attention: Filippo De Pisis, Natura morta, dated 1945 (auction base 40,000 euros, estimate: 72,000-80,000 euros) and Paese ligure di Felice Casorati, 1928, which with an auction base of 100,000 euros and an estimate of 180,000-200,000 could aspire to be the top lot of the entire body of works.
Obviously, besides the exceptional pieces just mentioned, among the 500 lots of the auction, there is a very wide choice of valuable works, for all tastes and at interesting prices. Among the most relevant names proposed, and which always meet a certain success, we should mention: Accardi, Arman, Aubertin, Boetti, Bonalumi, Campigli, Corpora, Fiume, Galliani, Lodola, Mathieu, Mondino, Olivieri, Paladino, Perilli, Pistoletto, Pomodoro, Sassu, Scanavino, Schifano, Sironi, Spoerri and Vasarely.
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