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Phillips de Pury & Co announces London Contemporary Auction highlights
Phillips de Pury & Company, is pleased to announce the highlights from its October Contemporary Art auctions
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26 Sep, 2010
London 鈥� Phillips de Pury & Company, is pleased to announce the highlightsfrom its October Contemporary Art auctions featuring 56 lots in the Evening sale聽and 148 lots in the Day sale with a total low estimate of拢8,543,500/$13,387,664 and聽a high estimate of 拢12,266,500 / $19,221,605.
Included in the Evening sale are important works by David Hockney, AndyWarhol, Maurizio Cattelan and Ed Ruscha. Also included are highlights聽from the KIT Finance Collection; a selection of 13 works from the Adam聽Lindemann collection of Contemporary German Art and a neon donated聽by Tracey Emin to benefit the Turner Contemporary Arts Trust.
鈥淧hillips de Pury & Company is synonymous with Frieze and our October sales聽promise to offer collectors rare, fresh and important works by cutting edge聽Contemporary and Post-War artists alike. We are particularly delighted to have聽secured for sale David Hockney鈥檚 Autumn Pool from his iconic 78鈥� Paper pool聽series. With a large format Paper pool not seen on the secondary market since聽2002, this seminal work will ensure a new world record for a work on paper by the聽artist at auction.鈥� Peter Sumner, Head of Contemporary Sales, London.
Highlights include: David Hockney鈥檚 Autumn Pool from the series Paper Pool,聽1978, estimated at 拢700,000鈥�1,000,000. Fresh to the market, Autumn Pool is an聽outstanding example of Hockney鈥檚 work. Since the mid-1960s, Hockney has聽painted, drawn, photographed and printed the image of the swimming pool聽making it without doubt the most recognisable motif in his oeuvre. Created on six聽sheets of paper using flat blocks of highly saturated colours, Autumn Pool聽exemplifies Hockney鈥檚 devotion to developing the pressed paper pulp technique.聽
Autumn Pool is a tightly framed pictorial composition across six sheets of paper,聽with a composite, tessellated image of a pool and its diving board. The picture鈥檚聽balanced layout is dominated by the strong vertical and horizontal lines of the聽jutting diving board and the edges on the pool. Accentuated by the protruding聽white board, the composition鈥檚 one-point perspective effortlessly draws the聽viewer鈥檚 eye across the brilliant, jewel-like tones of the pool鈥檚 water which聽reflects and refracts the luminous light drenching the outdoor scene. While the聽bold lines define a perspective, Hockney鈥檚 lack of formal tonal recession聽reinforces the abstract flatness of the picture plane. Simple and daring in its聽formal design, Autumn Pool is filled with a tension between the figuration of the聽composite image and the abstraction of each individual sheet.
Andy Warhol鈥檚 The Scream (After Edvard Munch), 1984, estimated at 拢500,000 鈥撀�700,000. Warhol produced several different versions of Edvard Munch鈥檚 罢丑别听厂肠谤别补尘, with only five works on canvas. With its ghostly presence and minimal聽colour, the present lot is almost sterile in appearance. The feelings of alienation聽and inner turmoil in Munch鈥檚 original work are juxtaposed against Warhol鈥檚聽factory aesthetic; as such, Munch鈥檚 image becomes part of the Warholian聽machine.
Maurizio Cattelan鈥檚 Una Domenica a Rivara (A Sunday in Rivara), 1992,estimated at 拢400,000鈥�600,000. Maurizio Cattelan has been making darkly comic聽work that has provoked and challenged the nature of the contemporary art world聽since the late 1980s. A knowing and sophisticated artist, Cattelan has聽continuously appropriated images and ideas from his everyday life to create a聽cast of often explicitly selfreferential characters and personas who inhabit an聽absurd world suspended between reality and fiction. As an early work from 1992,聽the present lot, Una Domenica a Rivara (A Sunday in Rivara), is one of his first and聽most striking statements of his role as an outlaw who challenges the perceived聽sanctity of art in our society. Created originally for an exhibition at Turin鈥檚聽Castello di Rivara, the physical work itself may simply consist of a number of聽knotted bed-sheets dangling from the venue鈥檚 top-floor window like a prop from聽a movie prison break, yet its conceptual and paradoxical implications are deeply聽layered in meaning. Una Domenica a Rivara presents Cattelan as an escapologist,聽a Houdini figure emancipating himself from the art world and its governing聽institutions 鈥� ironically the exact same art world and governing institutions聽which have established and legitimized the conceptual nature of his work.
Ed Ruscha鈥檚 Bee?, 1999, estimated at 拢400,000 鈥� 600,000. Bee? By Ed Ruscha is a聽excellent example of Ruscha鈥檚 investigations of the interplay between visual and聽written language. While some of the giants of 20th-century art like, Pablo Picasso聽and John Baldessari, have occasionally incorporated text in their work, Ruscha聽has devoted the near entirety of his oeuvre to language. Dating back to the early聽1960s, isolated words against a variety of backgrounds have been a hallmark of聽the conceptual artist's sensibility. Bee?, a monumental, shaped canvas which, as聽its title suggests, depicts an incomplete, ambiguous word running off the edge聽of the canvas 鈥� its last letter only partially revealed 鈥� is one of Ruscha鈥檚 most聽astute and adroit paintings. The intended clever word play, reminiscent of the聽work of Marcel Duchamp (famous for his puns and intellectual mind games),聽hints at several possible meanings; allowing the viewer to guess at the work.
Mark Grotjahn鈥檚 Untitled (Black Butterfly Dioxide Purple MPG 05), 2005,聽estimated at 拢250,000鈥�350,000. Grotjahn teases out the entire potential of聽modernism in his work. Working with multiple manners of reduction at once聽Grotjahn plays with notions of monochromatic and geometric form all at once.聽The pairing of these two concepts creates bold new geometric abstractions聽evident in the present lot.
Sterling Ruby鈥檚 SP58, 2008 estimated 拢150,000鈥�250,000. Working across a聽variety of disciplines, the highly prolific Sterling Ruby creates striking workswhich invoke the Modernist and Minimalist movements yet keep their form and聽materiality utterly unique and contemporary. Ruby鈥檚 performance and ritualistic聽practice pays homage to his biggest influences, fellow Los Angeles artists Mike聽Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Like their work, Ruby鈥檚 is extremely visceral with his聽large-scale spray-painted canvases of which SP58 is the most monumental to聽appear at auction. It is breathtakingly lurid and bright, with sharply-defined聽splatters of acrylic paint over blurred, neon topographical maps. The highly聽developed and worked abstract fields are reminiscent of graffiti-filled urban聽murals in which the perception of space is contorted, thus highlighting the聽flatness of the picture plane.
THE ADAM LINDEMANN COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ART
We are also pleased to offer works from The Adam Lindemann Collection ofContemporary German Art. From Pop Art to contemporary design via聽wristwatches and African and Oceanic artefacts, Adam Lindemann hasconstantly reinvented himself as a passionate collector far ahead of his time.Mimicking his all-conquering entrepreneurial spirit, Lindemann鈥檚 voraciouscollecting appetite has led him to the four corners of the globe from where hehas amassed iconic art treasures of our time.
The thirteen lots that will feature in the Evening Sale are a testament to聽Lindemann鈥檚 unique eye for a young generation of German artists who havefollowed in the footsteps of the towering figures of post-war German art.Succeeding Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Joseph Beuys as the artisticgiants of Germany, the likes of Jonathan Meese, Andr茅 Butzer and Thomas Zipp聽have re-invigorated the Berlin art world with their brash, testosterone-driven聽paintings, sculptures, installations and performances. One generation removed聽from the associations of World War II, the Berlin Group have been able to draw聽from and comment on the past with much more freedom and fervour than their聽predecessors.
The quality, depth and breadth of Adam Lindemann鈥檚 tightly curated selectionfor sale illustrates Berlin鈥檚 zeitgeist, the most innovative and thought provokingart produced today. Highlights from the collection will include: Anselm聽Reyle鈥檚, Untitled, 2008, estimated at 拢80,000-120,000; Jonathan Meese鈥檚聽Stalinietzsche de Large, im achten Ozean, 2006, estimated at 拢40,000-拢60,000 and Andreas Hofer鈥檚, Death World, 2006 estimated at 拢20,000-30,000.
THE KIT FINANCE COLLECTION
Four works will be offered in the Evening sale from the Kit Finance Collection.These works include: Antony Gormley鈥檚, Sublimate XVI, 2008 estimated at拢200,000-拢300,000; George Condo鈥檚, The Irish Barber, 2008 estimated at 150,000-聽200,000;Yinka Shonibare鈥檚, Two works: 19th Century Kid (Benjamin Disraeli)聽and 19th Century Kid (William Gladstone), 2000 estimated at 40,000-60,000 and聽Sarah Morris鈥�, Swan (Origami), 2007 estimated at 40,000-60,000.
TRACEY EMIN 鈥業 NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU鈥� TO BE SOLD WITH NO聽RESERVE
Tracey Emin has generously donated I Never Stopped Loving You, 2010 to be聽sold with no reserve for The Turner Contemporary Arts Trust in Margate.Perhaps best known for her provocative autobiographical installations My Bed聽and Everybody I Have Ever Slept With, Emin鈥檚 neon works revoke theconfrontational tone of the aforementioned works in favour of more heartfeltsymbolic meaning. She has used neon consistently throughout her career,聽taking full advantage of its commercial connotations as shop signs with eye聽grabbing potential.
This lot is an edition of the commissioned work completed by Emin for herhometown of Margate that expresses a personal attachment to the historicseaside resort: 鈥淚t鈥檚 a declaration of love for Margate from me, but also what I聽want in the summer 鈥� why go to Brighton for a dirty weekend 鈥� come to Margate.聽I want people to come off the train, I want them to walk along the seafront, I want聽them to hold hands and to have a snog and say 鈥業 never stopped loving you.鈥�
The new Turner Contemporary gallery, designed by David Chipperfield is being聽built at the northern point of Margate bay, Kent. When it opens in spring 2011, it聽will be the largest art gallery in the south-east of England outside London and聽will serve as a catalyst for the regeneration of this historic sea-side town and the聽local area. Turner Contemporary Art Trust and Phillips de Pury would like to聽thank Tracey Emin for so generously donating this artwork for auction.
Included in the Evening sale are important works by David Hockney, AndyWarhol, Maurizio Cattelan and Ed Ruscha. Also included are highlights聽from the KIT Finance Collection; a selection of 13 works from the Adam聽Lindemann collection of Contemporary German Art and a neon donated聽by Tracey Emin to benefit the Turner Contemporary Arts Trust.
鈥淧hillips de Pury & Company is synonymous with Frieze and our October sales聽promise to offer collectors rare, fresh and important works by cutting edge聽Contemporary and Post-War artists alike. We are particularly delighted to have聽secured for sale David Hockney鈥檚 Autumn Pool from his iconic 78鈥� Paper pool聽series. With a large format Paper pool not seen on the secondary market since聽2002, this seminal work will ensure a new world record for a work on paper by the聽artist at auction.鈥� Peter Sumner, Head of Contemporary Sales, London.
Highlights include: David Hockney鈥檚 Autumn Pool from the series Paper Pool,聽1978, estimated at 拢700,000鈥�1,000,000. Fresh to the market, Autumn Pool is an聽outstanding example of Hockney鈥檚 work. Since the mid-1960s, Hockney has聽painted, drawn, photographed and printed the image of the swimming pool聽making it without doubt the most recognisable motif in his oeuvre. Created on six聽sheets of paper using flat blocks of highly saturated colours, Autumn Pool聽exemplifies Hockney鈥檚 devotion to developing the pressed paper pulp technique.聽
Autumn Pool is a tightly framed pictorial composition across six sheets of paper,聽with a composite, tessellated image of a pool and its diving board. The picture鈥檚聽balanced layout is dominated by the strong vertical and horizontal lines of the聽jutting diving board and the edges on the pool. Accentuated by the protruding聽white board, the composition鈥檚 one-point perspective effortlessly draws the聽viewer鈥檚 eye across the brilliant, jewel-like tones of the pool鈥檚 water which聽reflects and refracts the luminous light drenching the outdoor scene. While the聽bold lines define a perspective, Hockney鈥檚 lack of formal tonal recession聽reinforces the abstract flatness of the picture plane. Simple and daring in its聽formal design, Autumn Pool is filled with a tension between the figuration of the聽composite image and the abstraction of each individual sheet.
Andy Warhol鈥檚 The Scream (After Edvard Munch), 1984, estimated at 拢500,000 鈥撀�700,000. Warhol produced several different versions of Edvard Munch鈥檚 罢丑别听厂肠谤别补尘, with only five works on canvas. With its ghostly presence and minimal聽colour, the present lot is almost sterile in appearance. The feelings of alienation聽and inner turmoil in Munch鈥檚 original work are juxtaposed against Warhol鈥檚聽factory aesthetic; as such, Munch鈥檚 image becomes part of the Warholian聽machine.
Maurizio Cattelan鈥檚 Una Domenica a Rivara (A Sunday in Rivara), 1992,estimated at 拢400,000鈥�600,000. Maurizio Cattelan has been making darkly comic聽work that has provoked and challenged the nature of the contemporary art world聽since the late 1980s. A knowing and sophisticated artist, Cattelan has聽continuously appropriated images and ideas from his everyday life to create a聽cast of often explicitly selfreferential characters and personas who inhabit an聽absurd world suspended between reality and fiction. As an early work from 1992,聽the present lot, Una Domenica a Rivara (A Sunday in Rivara), is one of his first and聽most striking statements of his role as an outlaw who challenges the perceived聽sanctity of art in our society. Created originally for an exhibition at Turin鈥檚聽Castello di Rivara, the physical work itself may simply consist of a number of聽knotted bed-sheets dangling from the venue鈥檚 top-floor window like a prop from聽a movie prison break, yet its conceptual and paradoxical implications are deeply聽layered in meaning. Una Domenica a Rivara presents Cattelan as an escapologist,聽a Houdini figure emancipating himself from the art world and its governing聽institutions 鈥� ironically the exact same art world and governing institutions聽which have established and legitimized the conceptual nature of his work.
Ed Ruscha鈥檚 Bee?, 1999, estimated at 拢400,000 鈥� 600,000. Bee? By Ed Ruscha is a聽excellent example of Ruscha鈥檚 investigations of the interplay between visual and聽written language. While some of the giants of 20th-century art like, Pablo Picasso聽and John Baldessari, have occasionally incorporated text in their work, Ruscha聽has devoted the near entirety of his oeuvre to language. Dating back to the early聽1960s, isolated words against a variety of backgrounds have been a hallmark of聽the conceptual artist's sensibility. Bee?, a monumental, shaped canvas which, as聽its title suggests, depicts an incomplete, ambiguous word running off the edge聽of the canvas 鈥� its last letter only partially revealed 鈥� is one of Ruscha鈥檚 most聽astute and adroit paintings. The intended clever word play, reminiscent of the聽work of Marcel Duchamp (famous for his puns and intellectual mind games),聽hints at several possible meanings; allowing the viewer to guess at the work.
Mark Grotjahn鈥檚 Untitled (Black Butterfly Dioxide Purple MPG 05), 2005,聽estimated at 拢250,000鈥�350,000. Grotjahn teases out the entire potential of聽modernism in his work. Working with multiple manners of reduction at once聽Grotjahn plays with notions of monochromatic and geometric form all at once.聽The pairing of these two concepts creates bold new geometric abstractions聽evident in the present lot.
Sterling Ruby鈥檚 SP58, 2008 estimated 拢150,000鈥�250,000. Working across a聽variety of disciplines, the highly prolific Sterling Ruby creates striking workswhich invoke the Modernist and Minimalist movements yet keep their form and聽materiality utterly unique and contemporary. Ruby鈥檚 performance and ritualistic聽practice pays homage to his biggest influences, fellow Los Angeles artists Mike聽Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Like their work, Ruby鈥檚 is extremely visceral with his聽large-scale spray-painted canvases of which SP58 is the most monumental to聽appear at auction. It is breathtakingly lurid and bright, with sharply-defined聽splatters of acrylic paint over blurred, neon topographical maps. The highly聽developed and worked abstract fields are reminiscent of graffiti-filled urban聽murals in which the perception of space is contorted, thus highlighting the聽flatness of the picture plane.
THE ADAM LINDEMANN COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ART
We are also pleased to offer works from The Adam Lindemann Collection ofContemporary German Art. From Pop Art to contemporary design via聽wristwatches and African and Oceanic artefacts, Adam Lindemann hasconstantly reinvented himself as a passionate collector far ahead of his time.Mimicking his all-conquering entrepreneurial spirit, Lindemann鈥檚 voraciouscollecting appetite has led him to the four corners of the globe from where hehas amassed iconic art treasures of our time.
The thirteen lots that will feature in the Evening Sale are a testament to聽Lindemann鈥檚 unique eye for a young generation of German artists who havefollowed in the footsteps of the towering figures of post-war German art.Succeeding Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Joseph Beuys as the artisticgiants of Germany, the likes of Jonathan Meese, Andr茅 Butzer and Thomas Zipp聽have re-invigorated the Berlin art world with their brash, testosterone-driven聽paintings, sculptures, installations and performances. One generation removed聽from the associations of World War II, the Berlin Group have been able to draw聽from and comment on the past with much more freedom and fervour than their聽predecessors.
The quality, depth and breadth of Adam Lindemann鈥檚 tightly curated selectionfor sale illustrates Berlin鈥檚 zeitgeist, the most innovative and thought provokingart produced today. Highlights from the collection will include: Anselm聽Reyle鈥檚, Untitled, 2008, estimated at 拢80,000-120,000; Jonathan Meese鈥檚聽Stalinietzsche de Large, im achten Ozean, 2006, estimated at 拢40,000-拢60,000 and Andreas Hofer鈥檚, Death World, 2006 estimated at 拢20,000-30,000.
THE KIT FINANCE COLLECTION
Four works will be offered in the Evening sale from the Kit Finance Collection.These works include: Antony Gormley鈥檚, Sublimate XVI, 2008 estimated at拢200,000-拢300,000; George Condo鈥檚, The Irish Barber, 2008 estimated at 150,000-聽200,000;Yinka Shonibare鈥檚, Two works: 19th Century Kid (Benjamin Disraeli)聽and 19th Century Kid (William Gladstone), 2000 estimated at 40,000-60,000 and聽Sarah Morris鈥�, Swan (Origami), 2007 estimated at 40,000-60,000.
TRACEY EMIN 鈥業 NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU鈥� TO BE SOLD WITH NO聽RESERVE
Tracey Emin has generously donated I Never Stopped Loving You, 2010 to be聽sold with no reserve for The Turner Contemporary Arts Trust in Margate.Perhaps best known for her provocative autobiographical installations My Bed聽and Everybody I Have Ever Slept With, Emin鈥檚 neon works revoke theconfrontational tone of the aforementioned works in favour of more heartfeltsymbolic meaning. She has used neon consistently throughout her career,聽taking full advantage of its commercial connotations as shop signs with eye聽grabbing potential.
This lot is an edition of the commissioned work completed by Emin for herhometown of Margate that expresses a personal attachment to the historicseaside resort: 鈥淚t鈥檚 a declaration of love for Margate from me, but also what I聽want in the summer 鈥� why go to Brighton for a dirty weekend 鈥� come to Margate.聽I want people to come off the train, I want them to walk along the seafront, I want聽them to hold hands and to have a snog and say 鈥業 never stopped loving you.鈥�
The new Turner Contemporary gallery, designed by David Chipperfield is being聽built at the northern point of Margate bay, Kent. When it opens in spring 2011, it聽will be the largest art gallery in the south-east of England outside London and聽will serve as a catalyst for the regeneration of this historic sea-side town and the聽local area. Turner Contemporary Art Trust and Phillips de Pury would like to聽thank Tracey Emin for so generously donating this artwork for auction.
