Sotheby's: evening auction of contemporary art in London on February 15, 2012
On the evening auctions of contemporary art at Sotheby's London is a unique work of Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon
2011 was a very successful auction of contemporary art for Sotheby's: This segment was made the third result in the history of trades - 1.17 billion dollars.
first evening auction of Contemporary Art in 2012 will be held in London on Tuesday, February 15, 2012, and will gather a group of works by leading representatives of postwar and contemporary art, including Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alighieri and Alberto Burri Boetti. Also for sale are exhibited works of British art, including works by famous artists: Francis Bacon, Lusiena Freud, Bridget Riley and Leon Kossoffa. Estimate the auction - more than 35.8 million pounds (hereinafter estimeyty do not include buyer's premium).
Anticipating the February auction, the head of contemporary art at Sotheby's, Europe Cheyenne Westphal said: "With an impressive the sum of worldwide sales, which amounted to 1.17 billion dollars in 2011, Sotheby's became the market leader in contemporary art. Confirming the success of last year, this winter we have organized an evening auction, which failed to attract the work of artists who are in demand by collectors and are open to the art market. Among the "blue fishkek" evening sale include works by such artists as Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon, Takashi Murakami, Andy Warhol and Freud Lusien. The auction estimate assumes a 35 million pounds, which puts it on par with the evening auctions of contemporary art, which we organized in February and June last year ».
« ice floes, "Gerhard Richter 1981 - one of the characteristic landscape of the artist. Breathtaking sea in ice written on a photograph taken by Richter in Greenland, where he went alone in 1972. Lifelessness of the ice very accurately conveys the state of mind of Richter at the time, due to stormy marriage, resulting in physical and emotional flight from Dusseldorf to its polar opposite. The picture is estimated at 2-3 million pounds.
| 1981 estimate: 2.3 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
«Abstract Composition (" Red ")," Gerhard Richter was established in 1991 and shows a conceptual approach to abstraction artist. In the 1990s, Richter created a series of monumental canvases on red. abstract composition - both experimental, innovative work and strikingly beautiful. Through a powerful and pulsating red show through green, yellow and gray. To this effect, Richter polzovalsyasya scraper instead of a brush, reaching a convincing balance of instinctive, spontaneous and random. painting is estimated at 2.5-3.5 million pounds.
| Abstract Composition (" Red "). 1991 Estimate: 2.5-3.5 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
work of Jean-Michel Basquiat "Orange figure of an athlete" - one of the main top lots auction, this is very rare on the auction of his beautiful masterpiece. Priced at £ 3-4 million, this product was established as an important creative Basquiat in 1982. It is emblematic of complex ethical issues related to racism in sport. Presented here is an athlete, on the one hand, praised (he is crowned with a crown), on the other - derided as holding a baseball. Here, Basquiat at the same time hinting at his Haitian origin and the very country of Haiti, where the cheapest labor for export production baseballs, and baseball, which is mostly in sports "for white." The drama in the work of Basquiat is achieved through the synthesis of different artistic movements: graffiti, abstract expressionism, and primitivism.
| Orange figure athlete Estimate: 3-4 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
work "Black Plastic" Alberto Burri with volcanic relief surface of the molten material shows skill of the artist, who used the fire as one of the plastic means. Previous work Burri ("charred wood") was sold in October 2011 at Sotheby's in London for an impressive amount of 3,177,250 pounds. "black plastic" had never appeared at auction and became the first work of this landmark series for Burri. Burri began work on his series in the 1960s, and it is a work created in 1965, surely one of the best in her. bordering on cruelty, mercilessness to the material in this paper refers to the Burri's biography itself. He was a doctor, then in 1944-1945 was in captivity, and that is where he decided to become an artist. "black plastic" - a symbolic visualization of the brutal nature of war and subjected to torture the living body bleeding. work is estimated at 0.8-1 2 million pounds.
 Alberto Bourret Black plastic. 1965 Estimate: 0.8-1.2 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
«figure of a monkey" Francis Bacon - the image of a man nearer to the cage with a monkey - one of the main themes in the works of Bacon, an area where the nature of man and animal are presented as the author of the family. This remarkable work has appeared as a result of Bacon's trip in 1951 in Zimbabwe and Southern Rhodesia. In the journey Bacon wrote the primeval world of nature, created in parallel with the image of a small series of screaming monkeys in a cage. This work with the screaming animals in the center of the composition also shows how Bacon's interest to wildlife, as well as his desire to show the primitive essence of human nature. The fact that this is rarely reproduced and exhibited, but a very significant early work of Bacon got back on the market, no doubt, an important artistic event. Estimate of - 1.8-2.5 million pounds.
| 1951 estimate: 1.8-2.5 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
series of drawings Lusiena Freud put up for auction on the background of last year's high prices the graphics artist. This is a rare and fresh to the market from the private collection of five images spans over 40 years of the artist and demonstrates his mastery of brilliant draftsman. Total revenue from the sale of these products is preliminary estimated at more than half a million pounds. Top Lot in this group - picture "Lord Goodman" (1985, paper, coal). This portrait shows the artist's rare ability to penetrate into the nature of the model. Along with another, smaller, painted portraits of the same model, which is stored in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery London, this museum-quality work is considered one of the best in graphic legacy of Freud since the 1980s. "Lord Goodman," Freud is one of the best works in portrait artist in general, and is estimated at 400-600 thousand pounds.
 LUSIEN Freud Lord Goodman. 1985 Estimate: 400-600 thousand pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
«Map" - a virtuoso the product of the famous series of colorful tapestries Alighieri Boetti. As the basis of the artist uses a world map, identifying her specific area in which you can trace the geography of Cold War politics. This work, estimated at 700-900 thousand pounds, was purchased directly from the artist himself and is offered in the market for the first time. Sketch for "Maps" Boetti did in 1983 in Rome, and then sent to Kabul (Afghanistan), where it embroidered. Boetti was very impressed with the culture and traditional crafts of Afghanistan, the country where he could no longer go after the political events of 1979. Text in Italian, woven around the map, clearly reflects the attitude of the artist to the occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, closed his road to Kabul's favorite: "Peace for Kabul. Afghanistan. " Boetti simultaneously draws our attention to the ability of art to change the world and to the fact that in contrast to the geography of politics in this world is transient.
| 1983 Estimate: 700-900 thousand pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
first released to the public and the trades, "Abstract Composition" by Gerhard Richter (at No. 768-4 ) - one of the most spectacular of his non-figurative works. Estimate 3-4 million pounds. product refers to the range of abstract works by the artist, created in 1992, when Richter was the first time instead of using hand scraper, seeking a visual dialogue between controlled and spontaneous actions. Sam Richter explained this technique as "an opportunity to give the image of a random chance of birth rather than to invent it ... a chance to find a way to ensure that truly, what is life, and that the borders of my consciousness" (Gerhard Richter. "1985 Notes" in: Hans -Ulrich Obrist. Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings 1962-1993, London 1993, p. 119). complexity and richness of nuances of black and white compositions and put it on a par with other famous abstract paintings by Richter, who are in the collections of leading museums such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco Museum of Art, Winterthur in Switzerland, the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany, and many others.
 Gerhard Richter abstract composition. 1992 Estimate: 3-4 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
dynamic, festive and bright composition of Takashi Murakami, "Spread your hands wider embrace happiness!" (estimate: 600-800 thousand pounds) - one of the best work of his flower series, inspired by Japanese animation and recognized worldwide as the main brand of the famous artist. This motif, in particular, has been used in his collaboration with Louis Vuitton and the famous hip-hop artist Kanye West. Murakami himself explains, the idea of a plane covered with flowers born when he was teaching children to paint flowers in elementary school. The feeling of disgust and discomfort, which he called these "sweet flowers", soon turned into something else, what was the impetus for the birth of a new topic. "I really wanted to convey a sense of anxiety and risk, which arises at the sight of the approaching crowd" (Takashi Murakami. Exhibition catalog. Gallery Serpentine, London, 2002, pp. 84-85).
| Spread hands wider embrace happiness! Estimate: 600-800 thousand pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
«shoes with diamond dust," Andy Warhol - a large-scale composition acrylic and "diamond dust". pictured here was provided by women's footwear designer Halstonom famous artist, then worked as an illustrator of fashion on Madison Avenue. Warhol stiletto shoes felt a symbol of glamor and, therefore, when he returned to this theme in the 1980s, decided to use the new technique of screen printing for himself and the "diamond dust". Thus Warhol sends the viewer to the cult movie stars, high fashion, fame and money - the favorite themes of the artist. For this work, which is estimated at 0.7-1 million pounds, Warhol made a series of Polaroid snapshots, then selecting one of them for printing. In the end, he used a large glass crumb for shimmering effect of "diamond dust».
 ANDY WARHOL Shoes with diamond dust Estimate: 0.7-1 million pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
«Naked in the room" (1995) Roy Lichtenstein - one of the most spectacular works of the late period of the artist, never to emerge. It directly echoes the earlier women's images in a series of Lichtenstein-style comic book that brought him worldwide fame. In the foreground, the picture shows a female figure in a natural growth, standing before a mirror. And in his other classic works of the artist used mirrors, windows and various reflective surfaces, and thereby achieve a complex and rich relationship of objects with light. This work is estimated at 600-800 thousand pounds.
| 1995 Estimate: 600-800 thousand pounds Sotheby's. 15.02.2012 Source: Press Release Sotheby's |
painting "Christ Church Cathedral № 1, August 1991" Leon Kossoffa depicting the main attraction East End of London - the first of a series of his works on this subject, which appeared on the market. In order to begin to write it, Kossoff made a pilgrimage to this immigrant district, where he spent his childhood and formative years. Kossoff was born into a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent, and perceived the dominant architecture of the Church of Christ as a threat to their staying in a foreign environment, as a symbol of deliberately hostile, like other immigrants in London, alien culture. This picture shows and a deep interest in the subject Kossoffa London ghetto. "London, like paint, which I use, in my blood. It's all in the movement - its sky, streets, houses and people passing by when I paint - and part of my life "(Leon Kossoff. exhibition catalog. Tate Gallery, London, 1996, pp. 36).
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