For those interested in modern art, Southeby’s have two interesting auctions this week.
The two auctions will, between them be selling 273 works of contemporary art. The pieces range in estimated value from $2,063 to $24.9 million.
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Some of the artists on sale include Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Damien Hirst, and Christopher Wool.
Both of the auctions focus on artists working in the post-war period but do contain pieces from right up to the modern day.
Previews for both auctions have been ongoing over the past few weeks.
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
The first of the two auctions is the evening auction. This one will take place on Wednesday 7 March 2018, beginnning at 7pm in Southeby’s London auction house.
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By GlobalDataProspective bidders may browse lots on Monday 5 March between 9am and 5pm, Tuesday 6 March between 9am and 7pm, and Wednesday 7 March between 9am and 12pm.
In general, the evening auction’s pieces have a higher price than the day auction’s artworks.
The most valuable piece in this auction is Peter Doig’s The Architect’s Home In The Ravine. The painting is said to be worth between $19.3 million and $24.9 million.
Southeby’s official website’s description explains:
“The Architect’s Home in the Ravine is as uncanny as it is inviting, coldly voyeuristic and blurred in dreamlike abstraction. Across the entirety of its complex composition, Doig conflates surface, and depth, distance and promixity, materiality and illusion. It is hypnotic and hypnagogic; conveying a mood of detached nostalgia and untethered memory. This work is also a demonstration of Doig’s astounding technical skill and complex compositional concept, characterised by a labyrinthine screen of ghostly white, and executed with considerable deference to art-historical precedent from the post-Impressionists and beyond.”
Other artists on sale in this auction include Andy Warhol, Banksy, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, and David Hockney.
Here are a few of the most interesting pieces from the auction:
Lot 9: Damien Hirst – Loving You
Estimated value: $1,106,000 – $1,659,000
Lot 26: David Hockney – Different Kinds Of Water Pouring Into A Swimming Pool, Santa Monica
Estimated value: $8,295,000 – $11,060,000
Lot 28: Gerhard Richter – Gelbgrün (Yellow-Green)
Estimated value: $9,677,500 – $13,825,000
Lot 50: Andy Warhol – African Elephant
Estimated value: $1,935,500 – $2,488,500
Lot 54: Banksy – Bacchus At The Seaside
Estimated value: $345,625 – $483,875
The full catalogue can be found here.
Contemporary Art Day Auction
The second contemporary art auction at Southeby’s takes place the following day, Thursday 7 March 2018. It is also held in Southeby’s London auction house, this time at 10.30am.
Previews of the lots on sale are taking place on Monday 5 March between 9am and 5pm, Tuesday 6 March between 9am and 7pm, and Wednesday 7 March between 9am and 12pm.
The most valuable artwork from the day auction is Andy Warhol’s Diamond Dust Shoes. It is estimated to be worth between $1,650,480 and $2,475,720.
The description on Southeby’s website explains:
“Effortlessly chic and dazzling, Diamond Dust Shoes is a quintessentially Warholian joy ride into his unmistakable Pop palette. Composed in 1980 as part of the series of the same name, the work at once creatively revisits Andy Warhol’s oldest artistic motifs of the high heel and stiletto, and incarnates the legendary New York discotheque culture… Evoking glitzy nights of dancing in the Studio 54 club sound tracked by the sumptuous analogue synthesisers of Italo-Disco songs, Diamond Dust Shoes epitomises Warhol’s reliquary fetishisation of the glamour and gloss exhibited at the high end of American pop culture. Exuding un-tempered indulgence in glam, drag, hyperbole and performance, this diamond-emblazoned image conjures nights of unparalleled luxury and euphoria; nights that cemented Warhol’s reputation as insatiable night owl and documenter of debauchery.”
Lots at the day auction are, in general, cheaper than those of the evening auction, but there is a much greater variety of artists and mediums at the day auction.
Other artists on sale at the day auction include John Chamberlain, Jean Dubuffet, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Doig, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, Christopher Wool and Mark Grotjahn.
There are some of the other interesting pieces on sale at the Contemporary Art Day auction:
Lot 104: George Condo – The Life Of Jean Louis
Estimated value: $275,080 – $412,620
Lot 119: Wolfgang Tillmans – Jal
Estimated value: $82,524 – $110,032
Lot 131: John Chamberlain – Untitled
Estimated value: $687,700 – $962,780
Lot 168: Damien Hirst – Untitled
Estimated value: $137,540 – $206,310
Lot 169A: Louise Bourgeois – House
Estimated value: $137,540 – $206,310
Lot 188: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and Andy Warhol – Origin Of Cotton
Estimated value: $481,390 – $618,930
Lot 219: Banksy – Monkey Detonator
Estimated value: $206,310 – $343,850
Lot 277: Rebecca Horn – Robespierre
Estimated value: $27,508 – $41,262
Lot 282: Chris Levine – Lightness Of Being
Estimated value: $20,631 – $27,508
Lot 296: Yves Klein – Table D’Or
Estimated value: $16,505 – $24,757
Lot 299: Tauba Auerbach – Blahs II
Estimated value: $34,385 – $48,139
The full catalogue can be found here.
