PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FROM JANUARY EVENING & DAY EDITIONS AUCTIONS
AUCTIONS TO FEATURE PRINTS AND MULTIPLES BY ANDY WARHOL, ROY LICHTENSTEIN, PABLO PICASSO AND LOUISE BOURGEOIS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
ANDY WARHOL
The Scream (after Munch) , 1984
Estimate £150,000 - 200,000
EVENING AUCTION: 21 JANUARY 2016, 6PM
DAY AUCTION: 21 JANUARY 2016, 2PM
AUCTION LOCATION: 30 BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON W1J 6EX
VIEWING: 15-21 JANUARY 2016, 30 BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON W1J 6EX
LINK TO ONLINE CATALOGUE: http://phillips.com/auctions/auction/UK030116
LONDON – 14 JANUARY 2016 – Phillips Evening and Day Editions auctions in London will present a selection of works by celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The two auctions will include over 260 lots, carrying a pre-sale estimate of £ 2.2 to £3.2 million.
Editions’ strong offering include prints and multiples by Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Lucien Freud, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Julian Opie, Georges Braque, Günther Förg and Louise Bourgeois.
With a heavy offering of Pop Art and Classic Modernism, prints and multiples by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall are amongst the top lots in the Evening portion of the auction. The iconic styles of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, who ordinarily focus on contemporary, everyday imagery (including advertisements, comics, celebrities, and soup-cans), both repeatedly turned their attention to art history. From the late 1960s, Lichtenstein began exploring classical motifs, with the defining elements of Futurism, Cubism, Surrealism, and finally Expressionism featuring regularly in his work throughout the following decades. Similarly, in the 1980s, Warhol transformed singular historical works of art (or rather, their reproductions) into recognisably Warholian icons, with his versions of works by Lucas Cranach, Giorgio de Chirico, and Edvard Munch, along with his Details of Renaissance Paintings series, forming the backbone of Warhol’s last, busy decade.
Lichtenstein and Warhol’s focus on repetition and seriality, of continuing (through parody) a series of familiar images, is key to both artists’ exploration of art history.
ANDY WARHOL
$ (Quadrant) , 1982
Estimate £100,000 - 150,000
ANDY WARHOL
Details of Renaissance Paintings
(Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus 1482) , 1984
Estimate £120,000 - 180,000
ANDY WARHOL
Cowboys and Indians , 1986
Estimate £120,000 - 180,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWEDISH COLLECTION
AFTER MARC CHAGALL
Carmen by Charles Sorlier, 1966
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Expressionist Woodcut Series , 1980
Estimate £80,000 - 120,000
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Reflections on The Scream, from Reflections series , 1990
Estimate £70,000 - 90,000
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Fugue , 2003-05
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000
ANDY WARHOL
Muhammad Ali , 1978
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000
JOAN MIRÓ
Femmes (Women), 1965
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
PABLO PICASSO
Bacchanale, 1959
Estimate £35,000 - 45,000
WASSILY KANDINSKY
Radierung No. 1 (Etching No. 1), 1916
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
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*Estimates do not include buyer’s premium; prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyer’s premium.
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