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Written by: Elena Lanzanova
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Phillips De Pury Starts Its New Year Sales In New York With Editions
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Tuesday 24 January 2012
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After a long winter break, Phillips de Pury is inaugurating the first semester of 2012 with a New York day dedicated to modern and contemporary art. While the other leading auction houses are focusing on the Old Master sector, proposing marvellous masterpieces at very high figures, Phillips de Pury is presenting a catalogue of 270 editions realised by the most influential names of the modern and contemporary sector. Therefore, they are not unique pieces but works realised in series at reasonable and accessible prices: a more democratic and approachable art sector compared to the other departments, in which new collectors can make their first step towards the art market, without spending a fortune.
And so, the debut of the new sale season at Phillips de Pury is scheduled on 25th January at 450 Park Avenue, with Editions, an auction featuring interesting pieces by the most famous and innovative artists of the 20th and 21st century.
Highlight of the American kermis is Flash-november 22 by Andy Warhol (estimate 40-60 thousand dollars), a complete set of eleven coloured serigraphs dedicated to the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the USA assassinated in Dallas on 22nd November 1963. Besides this lot, the Pop Art master is at auction with other famous serigraphs. Browsing the catalogue, there are works that can be appreciated even by the most profane public, such as Cow dated 1971 (estimate 8-12 thousand dollars), Liz dated 1964 (estimate 6-9 thousand dollars), Flowers (estimate 4-6 thousand dollars), Candy Box (closed) dated 1983 (estimate 12-18 thousand dollars) and the fascinating Wild Raspberries dated 1959 (estimate 15-25 thousand dollars), seventeen gastronomic-themed screen printings realised by the artist during his advertising period, when he was still working for glossy magazines and had not approached the world of painting yet.
For those who are more passionate about Pop Art, the New York auction is proposing many other artists that are appreciated on the market. Star among these is Roy Lichtenstein with Morton A. Mort, from Expressionist Woodcut series dated 1980 – a coloured engraving estimated at 6-8 thousand dollars – Cathedral #6 (estimate 6-8 thousand dollars) and a marvellous triptych in which a cow becomes an abstract composition (estimate 5-7 thousand dollars). And also: Tom Wesselmann with the colourful Monica Nude with Cezanne, from Portfolio 90 (estimate 10-15 thousand dollars), Jim Dine with the print Heart in Blue (estimate 8-12 thousand dollars) and Claes Oldenburg with New Media – New Forms in Painting and Sculpture (estimate 2-3 thousand dollars).
Phillips de Pury is also offering various lots which embrace a wide range of artistic styles and genres. We can observe the experimental vitality of the New Dada introduced by Robert Rauschenberg (American Pewter with Burroughs series, estimate 12-18 thousand dollars) and by Jasper Johns (Face with Watch, estimate 12-18 thousand dollars), but also the emotional coldness of Minimal Art represented in the catalogue by Frank Stella (Fossil-Whale-Dome, from Moby Dick Domes series, estimate 7-10 thousand dollars), Sol Lewitt (Vertical Not Straight Lines Not Touching on Color: four plates, estimate 10-15 thousand dollars), Donald Judd (Untitled: three plates, estimate 5-7 thousand dollars), Robert Ryman (First Conversion, estimate 9-12 thousand dollars) and by the minimalist sculptor Richard Serra, at auction with six lithographic sketches dated 1981, valued altogether at 5-7 thousand dollars.
Among the 270 works featured in the catalogue, a rich selection of modern works also stands out. Helen Frankenthaler with her Color Field poetics is present with an etching and aquatint entitled Sunshine After Rain (estimate 10-15 thousand dollars). The Swiss Paul Klee is intervening with Der Seiltänzer (Tightrope Walker) – a coloured lithograph dated 1923 which comes from a private American collection, valued at 20-30 thousand dollars – while the Spanish surrealist Joan Mirò is at auction with 15 works gathered in the portfolio Flux de l’aimant (estimate 12-18 thousand dollars).
The modern highlights also include a sculpture by the English artist Lynn Chadwick (Walking Cloaked Figures VI: one sculpture, estimate 15-25 thousand dollars), the two bronzes Spatial Concept, Nature by Lucio Fontana (estimate 12-16 thousand dollars) and an elegant portrait of woman by Henri Matisse, realised with a lithographic technique in 1942/43 and valued at 8-12 thousand dollars.
For those collectors who prefer more popular figures of the recent contemporary market, the Editions sale is proposing the habitual artists of the auction world. Star of this section is definitely Damien Hirst, British artist with great skills in provoking and earning, at the New York sale with Pharmaceuticals (estimate 18-25 thousand dollars) and with the coloured skull The Hours Spin Skull (estimate 6-8 thousand dollars).
Among the other “habitué” of contemporary art there are also many lots by Chuck Close, a portfolio of four photos by the Sophie Calle (estimate 10-15 thousand dollars), four prints by Kara Walker (estimate 12-18 thousand dollars), the ironic sculptor Death Figure by Tom Otterness (estimate 10-15 thousand dollars), but also works by other popular names such as Vik Muniz, Jeff Koons, Félix Gonzàlez-Torres, John Baldessari, Takashi Murakami, Keith Haring, Julian Opie and many others.
Arcadja Auctions Browse here Phillips de Pury’s auction – New York, January 25th 2012
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Tags: Sophie Calle, Roy Lichtenstein, Kara Walker, Henri Matisse, Contemporary and Modern Art, New Dada, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucio Fontana, Editions, Tom Wesselmann, Joan Miro, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Editions sale, Pop Art, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Klee, Damien Hirst, Frank Stella, New York, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Phillips de Pury, Minimal Art, Robert Ryman, Lynn Chadwick
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