“I paint with reason, not passion, in that way I am like a scientist” —Bernar Venet
This work is recorded in the Bernar Venet Studio archives under Inventory n˚ bv86d6
1986Unique charcoal drawing with collage, on heavy wove paper.15 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (40 x 36.8 cm)Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed.
Estimate$8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,700
Editions@phillips.com 212 940 1220
New York Auction 21 June 2023
1
Alexander Calder
Le Noble chevalier (The Noble Knight)
Estimate $800 - 1,200
Sold for $3,302
2
Untitled (Pin Wheel and Circles)
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $6,985
3
Le Crâne dans le nid (The Skull in the Nest)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
4
Untitled
Sold for $6,096
5
Un Drôle de poisson (A Funny Fish)
Sold for $2,540
6
La Mousson (The Monsoon)
7
Le S et le O (The S and the O)
8
Les Scies (The Saws)
Sold for $5,334
9
Horizontal Pyramides
Sold for $4,064
10
Flat World
Estimate $2,000 - 4,000
Sold for $3,556
11
El Círculo de Piedra (The Stone Circle): one plate
Sold for $1,016
12
Untitled (Fiesta)
13
Untitled, from Calder, Magie Éolienne (Calder, Aeolian Magic)
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $8,255
14
Abe Ribicoff
Sold for $2,794
15
Tapestry
16
Taches de rousseur (Freckles), from La Mémoire élémentaire
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,890
17
Homage to Euclid (Composition IX), from La Mémoire élémentaire
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $9,525
18
Elephants, from Our Unfinished Revolution
Estimate $3,000 - 4,000
19
Seal, from Our Unfinished Revolution
Sold for $4,445
20
Lion and Tamer
Sold for $2,413
21
Un Patriote (A Patriot)
Sold for $1,905
22
Galactic System
23
Alexander Calder and Carlos Franqui
Lo Oscuro Invade (The Dark Invades)
Estimate $1,200 - 1,800
24
Flying Colors
Sold for $4,826
25No Reserve
Boomerang
Estimate $1,000 - 2,000 •
26
Joan Miró
Escalade vers la lune (Climbing to the Moon) (D. 496)
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $22,860
27
Sans le soleil, malgré les autres astres, il ferait nuit, Héraclite d'Éphèse (Without the Sun, Despite the Other Stars, it Would be Night, by Heraclitus of Ephesus): one plate (see D. 400, see C. bks. 98)
Sold for $1,651
28
Eduardo Chillida
Omar Khayyam Txiki (Little Omar Khayyam) (K. 82007)
29
Conrad Marca-Relli
Multiple A; Multiple B; Multiple C; Multiple D; and [Untitled]
Sold for $1,270
30
Richard Serra
Weight IX
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $25,400
31
Venice Notebook 2001, #15 (G. 1923, B.-W. 159)
Sold for $6,350
32
Venice Notebook 2001, #17 (G. 1926, B.-W. 161)
33
Untitled (Film Forum Print) (G. 1417, B.-W. 57)
Sold for $2,032
34
Bernar Venet
Undetermined Line
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
35
Vija Celmins
Saturn Stamps (R. 28)
36
Untitled, from The Stars
Sold for $3,810
37
Night Sky I (Reversed) (G. 1932, R. 38)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
38No Reserve
Sol LeWitt
A Sphere Lit from the Top, Four Sides, and all their Combinations (Composite) (K. 2004.07)
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for $1,524
39
Pyramids: plate #2 (K. 1987.03)
40No Reserve
Richard Tuttle
Entertaining...
Sold for $953
41No Reserve
Plastic History (Portfolio)
Estimate $800 - 1,200 •
Sold for $762
42
Tauba Auerbach
Plate Distortion II
43No Reserve
Mark Tobey
Renaissance of a Flower; Paean; and Of Time and Age
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500 •
Sold for $1,080
44
Peter Halley
A Tour of the Monuments of Passiac, New Jersey (S. pp. 132-133)
Sold for $1,143
45
Robert Motherwell
La Casa de la Mancha (E. & B. 349)
46No Reserve
Frank Stella
Polar Co-ordinates IV, from Polar Co-ordinates for Ronnie Peterson (A. 122)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000 •
47
Itata, from V Series (G. 76, A. 23)
Sold for $5,715
48
Gezira; and Gavotte, from Black Series II (G. 67 & 72, A. 14 & 19)
49
Josef Albers
Allegro (D. 155)
50
Leon Polk Smith
Volair Constellation Series: two plates
51
Ellsworth Kelly
Light Blue with Orange (Bleu clair avec orange), from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (A. 14)
Sold for $11,430
52
Larry Zox
Stencil Series: three plates
Estimate $1,800 - 2,500
53
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Silent Red
Estimate $900 - 1,200
54
Fold Slice Topo II
55
Ross Bleckner
Chaperone
56
PS I; and PS II
57
Helen Frankenthaler
Painted Book Cover
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $24,130
58
Flirt (R. p. 195)
Sold for $17,145
59
Emma Webster
La Nouvelle Epoque (The New Era)
60
Alex Katz
Blue Umbrella 2
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $72,390
61
White Visor (S. 381)
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
62
Late Summer Flowers
Sold for $36,830
63
Melon Leaf (Feuille de Melon), from Suite of Plant Lithographs (A. 44)
64
Seaweed (Algue), from Suite of Plant Lithographs (A. 53)
65
Jim Dine
The White Foot (B. 101)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
66
Tom Wesselmann
Helen Nude (W.P.I. P816)
67
Henri Matisse
Nu assis dans un fauteuil au décor fleuri (Nude Sitting in a Floral Decorated Armchair) (D. 445)
Sold for $17,780
68
After Pablo Picasso
Jacqueline à l'Atelier (Jacqueline at the Easel)
69
Pablo Picasso
Deux femmes se reposant (Two Women Resting), plate 10 from La Suite Vollard (Bl. 143, Ba. 210)
Estimate $6,000 - 9,000
Sold for $15,240
70
Françoise Gilot
Young Girl and Pelican
Estimate $1,500 - 2,000
Sold for $7,620
71
Rufino Tamayo
Hombre I (Man I); and Mujercita (Little Woman) (P. 295 & 300)
72
Henry Moore
Head of Girl and Reclining Figure (C. 506)
Estimate $600 - 800
Sold for $1,207
73
David Hockney
Gregory Reclining, from Friends (G. 772, M.C.A.T. 198)
74
Joe McDonald, from Friends (G. 717, S.A.C. 175, M.C.A.T. 164)
75
Kerry James Marshall
Untitled (Woman)
76
Untitled (Handsome Young Man)
Sold for $12,065
77
John Currin
Milestones
78
Paul Cadmus
Two Boys on a Beach, No. 2 (D. 43, J. 86)
79No Reserve
Eric Fischl
On the Beach, Blue
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000 •
80No Reserve
Malcolm Morley
Beach Scene with Parasailor
Estimate $600 - 900 •
81
Country Bouquet (W.P.I. E35)
Estimate $60,000 - 90,000
Sold for $292,100
82
Wayne Thiebaud
Candy Counter (State 1), from Seven Still Lifes and a Rabbit
83No Reserve
Still Life, from New York Ten (W.P.I. P654)
84
George Segal
Girl in a Chair (S. 1025)
Sold for $1,778
85
Claes Oldenburg
Baked Potato, from 7 Objects in a Box (P. 3)
86
Apple Core - Spring (G. 1438, A. & P. 210)
87
Roy Lichtenstein
Brushstrokes (C. 45)
Sold for $50,800
88
Interior with Chair, from the Leo Castelli 90th Birthday portfolio (C. 309)
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
89
Modern Sculpture with Apertures (C. 46)
90
Jeff Koons
Diamond (Red)
Sold for $19,050
91
James Rosenquist
Paper Clip (G. 71)
92No Reserve
Mel Ramos
Devil Doll (H. p. 56)
Estimate $700 - 1,000 •
93
Emily Mae Smith
Medusa
94
Lari Pittman
Existential and Needy (C. p. 335)
Estimate $400 - 600
Sold for $826
95
Kenny Scharf
Blimy
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500
96
Takashi Murakami
AND THEN Black
97
Killer Pink
98
Yoshitomo Nara
Miss Spring
99No Reserve
Calvin Marcus
Estimate $400 - 600 •
Sold for $76
100
David Wojnarowicz
Fire & Water, from Four Elements
Sold for $5,080
101
Sueño y mentira de Franco I & II (The Dream and Lie of Franco) (Bl. 297 & 298, Ba. 615 & 616, C. bks 28)
102
Morton A. Mort, from Expressionist Woodcut Series (G. 886, C. 178)
Sold for $16,510
103
Keith Haring
Untitled (Free South Africa): one plate (S. p. 142, L. pp. 42-43)
104
Catalogue Dedication
105
After Jean-Michel Basquiat
Flexible
Sold for $88,900
106
Huma Bhabha
Reconstructions
107
Kara Walker
The Bush; Skinny; and De-boning
108
William Kentridge
Panic Picnic, from Sleeping on Glass (K. p. 82)
109
Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler
Poetics Country (S. p. 414)
110
Raymond Pettibon
Thinking of You
111
Mike Kelley
Reconstructed History
112
Bruce Nauman
Untitled (Hands)
Sold for $2,159
113
Jadé Fadojutimi
Clustering Thoughts
Sold for $10,160
114
Julie Mehretu
Fracture
115
Glenn Ligon
Draft
116
Chakaia Booker
117
Faith Ringgold
Here Comes Moses, from Jones Road
118
Jordi Ribes
The Green Partner
Sold for $1,397
119
This lot is no longer available.
120
Andy Warhol
Liza Minnelli at Halston's House, from Photographs
121
Anna Weyant
Robes
122
Alex Israel
The Bigg Chill; Maltese Falcon; and Risky Business
123
Robert Longo
Tiger
124
Gerhard Richter
P-16 (Flow)
125
Damien Hirst
Superstition
126
Daniel Arsham
Future Relic 03 (Clock)
127
Doug Starn and Mike Starn
Double Rembrandt (with steps)
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
128
Ed Ruscha
Various Small Fires; Some Los Angeles Apartments; Nine swimming pools; A Few Palm Trees; Colored People; and S Books (E. B2, B3, B8, B13 & B16)
129No Reserve
Matthew Barney
Cremaster: Field Suite
Sold for $3,048
130
Banksy
No Ball Games (Grey)
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
Sold for $44,450
131
Gazing Ball (Manet Olympia)
Estimate $18,000 - 25,000
Sold for $38,100
132
The Empresses (H. 10)
133
Ai Weiwei
Artist's Hand