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Phillips Announces 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sales in New York Featuring Enhanced Digital Experiences and Livestreamed to Bidders Worldwide on July 2, 2020
Highlights Include Exceptional Artworks by Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Matthew Wong, Maxfield Parrish, Gerhard Richter, David Hammons, Julio González, Charles White, and Banksy, and More
“Phillips has been at the forefront of identifying the future of the bidding and buying experience online with the ability to bid on our app along with live streaming for nearly half a decade. We’re thrilled to bring our marquee Evening Sale to collectors worldwide in a format that will capture the intimacy and excitement of being in the room,” states Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips Deputy Chairman and Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art.
Evening Sale Highlights Two superlative works by artists of the 20th century include Joan Mitchell’s Noël and Helen Frankenthaler’s Head of the Meadow. An exceptional 1994 painting by Gerhard Richter hails from the height of his abstract period coincides with the highly regarded retrospective currently at the Met Breuer, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All.
Following the house’s stellar result for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Flexible, which sold for more than $43million in 2018 more than doubling the pre-sale low estimate of $20 million, Phillips will offer an impressive work executed in 1987, just one year before his untimely death. Last offered publicly more than a decade ago, Victor 25448 captures the singular coalescence of text and imagery that is a hallmark of the artist’s celebrated practice.
An Old Master replica tagged with a stenciled monkey guzzling gasoline from a child’s juice box represents a significant work by master-interventionist Banksy to come to auction this season from his Crude Oil series. Fellow disruptor KAWS is represented with a large-scale early Companion painting from 2000.
Julio González’s bronze sculpture, L’arlequin / Pierrot ou Colombine represents his pioneering practice in light of his collaborative work with Pablo Picasso.
Day Sale Highlights Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale will be livestreamed to bidders worldwide on July 2 across two sessions, starting at 11am EDT and later at 2pm EDT. The sale will champion numerous artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring more than 170 lots across both sessions.
Leading the Morning Session is John Chamberlain’s monumental Pure Drop, 1983, from the artist's Giraffe series. Pure Drop exemplifies Chamberlain's novel sandblasting technique, which began to define his oeuvre after his move to Florida in the early 1980s. Also featured in the sale is a remarkable landscape painting from 1995 by Cuban artist Tomas Sánchez, Meditador, its title referring to Sánchez’s conception of landscape playing a meditative role between man and nature. Another top lot is Kenneth Noland’s Resect, 1979, one of the artist’s renowned asymmetrically shaped canvases. Other notable works include sculptures by Anne Truitt and Joseph Cornell, and two works by Henri Laurens, culminating the selection of works from the Collection of Florence Knoll Bassett, which have been offered across Phillips’ 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Sales over the past year.
The Afternoon Session will feature works by important contemporary artists, including Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Matthew Wong, Amoako Boafo and Noah Davis—notably Davis’s 100 Years of Entertainment 1-5, 2008, which exemplifies the abstracted figuration for which the artist is known. This comes to auction on the heels of a new world auction record for the artist, set this past March at Phillips, with a painting selling for $400,000, over six times its low estimate. Another highlight will be Vivian Springford’s Untitled (Tanzania Series), 1972, the first work by the artist to be offered at Phillips. While an active figure in the New York art scene from the 1950s to the 1970s, Springford withdrew from the public eye until her work was rediscovered in the late 1990s just before her death, and more recently shown at Almine Rech Gallery in New York in 2018. The sale will also include John Baldessari’s Double Bill (Part 2): …and Ernst, 2012—a quintessential example of Baldessari’s unmistakable semiotic wordplay—from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles.
Auction: 2 July 2020, 10am EDT Location: 450 Park Avenue, New York Click here for more information: https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/NY010420
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session Auction: 2 July 2020, 2pm EDT Location: 450 Park Avenue, New York Click here for more information: https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/NY010520
20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale Auction: 2 July 2020, 5pm EDT Location: 450 Park Avenue, New York Click here for more information: https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/NY010320
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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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