PRESS RELEASE
PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE JULY MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART SALE IN NEW YORK
Auction on 16 July Set to Feature a Cross-Century Selection Spanning Impressionism, Early Modernism, Post-War Abstraction,
and Contemporary Practice
Werner Bronkhorst Kicks Off His Auction Debut with From Every Corner, Channeling the Global Fever of the World Cup
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Isa Genzken Basic Research, 1989 Estimate: $80,000–120,000 |
NEW YORK – 29 JUNE 2026 – Phillips is pleased to announce highlights from the Modern & Contemporary Art Sale taking place on 16 July in New York. Spanning late 19th-century painting through early modernism, Post-War abstraction, and contemporary practice, the sale presents a wide-ranging survey of more than a century of artistic production. The exhibition will be on view at Phillips New York from 9–15 July, offering collectors and audiences the opportunity to engage with a thoughtfully curated selection of works across periods, geographies, and artistic movements.
Leading the sale is Werner Bronkhorst’s From Every Corner (2026), marking the artist’s debut at a major international auction house. Emblematic of Bronkhorst’s signature style, the monumental composition features 48 football players in motion across a vivid green ground — a work whose sale is made all the timelier against the backdrop of enthusiasm across the globe for the ongoing World Cup. Ahead of its sale in New York, From Every Corner will be previewed in Los Angeles beginning 9 July at 8175 Melrose Avenue as part of Werner Bronkhorst’s exhibition Big Balls, before it goes on view at Phillips’ Los Angeles galleries ahead of the sale in New York.
Additional highlights from the sale reflect the breadth of the category, from European landscape painting to early 20th-century figuration. Pierre Eugène Montézin’s La Fenaison en Normandie captures the enduring appeal of the pastoral through a luminous treatment of rural life, while Alice Neel’s early The Lost Phoebe, executed circa 1930, offers a rare glimpse into the formative years of the celebrated American painter. Post-War and late 20th-century practices are represented through diverse approaches to abstraction and figuration. Sir Frank Bowling’s Bumble Bee exemplifies his layered, color-driven surfaces, while Isa Genzken’s Basic Research (1989) transforms the textures of her studio floor into a richly worked abstract surface, recording traces of her immediate environment through a process of imprint and gesture. Chris Ofili’s Triangle – Fall (2017) belongs to the artist’s richly worked “triangle” series, while March Avery’s The Peaceful Livingroom (2014) transforms a quiet interior complete with a housecat into a meditation on color and domestic intimacy.
Contemporary highlights further underscore the range of the sale. Carol Bove’s 2012 YES! THIS DAMN UNIVERSE! coincides with her major survey exhibition Carol Bove, currently on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, through 2 August 2026, where her work engages questions of perception, scale, and spatial relationships. Rashid Johnson’s 2012 Nukeout exemplifies his materially driven practice.
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