Including Property
from the Estate of Howard Karshan and Shape
& Space: New Ceramic Presence, a Curated Auction Dedicated to Modern
and Contemporary Ceramics
LONDON
– 18 SEPTEMBER 2018 – Phillips brings together a broad spectrum of
international names across its sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art
during Frieze Week. Celebrating the rich diversity of the art landscape of
today, the Evening Sale includes works by blue chip names Gerhard Richter, Joan
Mitchell, and Christopher Wool, alongside young and exciting contemporary artists
Ali Banisadr, Cheyney Thompson, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Comprising 37 lots,
the Evening Sale will take place at 5pm on 5 October, and will be preceded by Shape & Space: New Ceramic Presence, a
curated sale dedicated to Modern and Contemporary ceramics. Comprising 204
lots, the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale will take place at 2pm on
4 October.
Painted in 1963, Gerhard Richter’s Hände, from
the Estate
of Howard Karshan, is one of the earliest
examples of the artist’s photo realist paintings and is recorded as number 12
in the catalogue raisonné of his work. Representative of Richter’s
investigations into the mediums of photography and paint, Hände elegantly captures one of the oldest motifs in the history of
art, depicting not only the tool of creation but also the tool of
representation. Other works from the Karshan Collection to be included in the
London Evening Sale are Georg Baselitz’s Untitled,
1967 (estimate: £250,000-350,000),
Cy Twombly’s Untitled, 1969
(estimate: £350,000-550,000), and Gerhard Richter’s Busch, 1985 (estimate: £800,000-1,200,000). Busch was included in the seminal exhibition Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art, which also travelled to the Art Institute of Chicago, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC.
Coming to the market at a moment of marked celebration
of Joan Mitchell’s work, Perch and Twirl,
executed in 1973, exemplifies the artist’s oeuvre of this period with its vivid
energy and bold colour. Perch and Twirl came immediately
after the artist’s first major solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art
entitled My Five Years in the Country, 1972, and shortly before an eponymous show at the
Whitney in 1974.
The Evening Sale will offer an important group of Italian artists, including Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, and Arnaldo Pomodoro with Grande Tavola Della. Executed in 1959-65, this formative sculpture became a cornerstone for the subsequent spherical and columnar bodies of work that went on to define Pomodoro’s career. Stretching approximately two meters in height and over three meters in length, the colossal bronze panels are engraved with a myriad of glyphs that reflect the artist’s lifelong fascination with the codes and markings that define the human condition. Another cast from the edition was included in Pomodoro’s one room installation at the 1988 Venice Biennale; that example is still in the artist’s collection and the other is in the collection of the municipality of Darmstadt.
Concetto
spaziale, Attese, 1963 is an emblematic
expression of Lucio Fontana’s preoccupation with universal and spiritual
concepts (illustrated left). The cuts crossing the surface indicate a symbolic
transcendence of space and time. Additional highlights of Italian Post-War art
include Enrico Castellani’s Superficie
Gialla Tokyo no. 2, 1967, that captures the artist’s iconic mastery of the
inclinations of light and space (estimate: £250,000-350,000). Superficie Gialla Tokyo no. 2 was
included in Castellani’s exhibition at Toyko Gallery in 1968, and has been in
the same private collection ever since.
Another
notable highlight is Peter
Doig’s Cobourg 3+1 more, which holds
the current world auction record for a work on paper by the artist. Painted in 1995,
Cobourg 3+1 more recalls Doig’s years
spent in Canada, sketching out the untouched environment of a lake near his
Parents’ residence in Ontario. Directly relating to other monumental works of
the same scene, the present work hovers at the intersection between reality and
abstraction. Executed a year after Doig’s Turner Prize nomination, Cobourg 3+1 more exists amidst a
collection of paintings recounting persistent memories of the artist’s childhood
home.
The
Evening Sale champions a
rich diversity of international names from the contemporary scene, including Ali
Banisadr’s Nowhere, 2010. The
composition of Nowhere hangs between
figuration and abstraction; glimpses of forms, figures, flora and fauna emerge from
the multitude of intricate brushstrokes that cultivate the surface of the
canvas. Also on offer is Untitled,
2006 by Amy Sillman, who is soon to be celebrated at the Camden Arts Centre,
London, in her forthcoming 2018 solo exhibition (estimate: £150,000-200,000).
Other works include Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Marble,
2010 (estimate: £150,000-200,000), Avery Singer’s Ihole, 2011 (estimate: £40,000-60,000), and Cheyney Thompson’s Chronochrome set 1, 2010 (estimate:
£150,000-250,000).
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
In
partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park Phillips is pleased to announce that
the 20th Century & Contemporary October Sales will include works sold to
raise money in support of emerging artists. Renowned artists and their
representatives, including Joan Miró, Henry Moore, David Nash, KAWS and George
Rickey, are supporting this initiative by donating works of art to be sold
across the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales.
20th
Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
One of the leading highlights of the 20th Century &
Contemporary Art Day Sale is Wolfgang Tillmans’ Freischwimmer 34, a
photographic work showcasing Tillmans’ exploration of non-representational
photography, creating abstract and distorted images designed to push the limits
of visibility and causing the viewer’s gaze to ‘swim’. A sculptural
highlight from the Day Sale is Lynn Chadwick’s First Girl Sitting On
Bench. In this angular composition Chadwick navigates not only physical
form, through the use of metal structures, but also the mental sphere of his
subject, through her contemplative pose. A further highlight is
Günther Förg’s Untitled, which belongs to his iconic series of lead
paintings created throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Through his composition
of a slate grey background washed with white and bisected by a solitary
electric blue stripe, Förg encourages us to admire the intensity of the
metallic material itself. The resulting work is a harmonious dialogue between
depth and dimensionality.
20th Century &
Contemporary Art Day Sale
Auction: Thursday,
4 October 2018, 2pm
Auction viewing: 28
September - 4 October
Location: 30
Berkeley Square, London
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information.
Shape & Space: New
Ceramic Presence
Auction: Friday, 5
October 2018, 4pm
Auction viewing: 28
September - 5 October
Location: 30
Berkeley Square, London
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information.
20th Century &
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Auction: Friday, 5
October 2018, 5pm
Auction viewing: 28
September - 5 October
Location: 30
Berkeley Square, London
Click here for more
information.
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