Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2009.” title=”Peter Doig (b.1959) – Pine House (Rooms in go for to Rent), Painted in 1994 – Estimate: Ј1.5 million to Ј2 million. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2009.” border=”0″ height=”676″ hspace=”20″ vspace=”10″ width=”975″>LONDON.- To co-incide with Frieze Week in October
2009, Christie’s announces a series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to
Post-War and Contemporary Art. burly The main highlights which bequeath be on
public cityscape at Christie’s lean all over signal works away Peter Doig, Martin
Kippenberger, Lucio Fontana, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Pino Pascali, Raqib
Shaw and a rare, commencement rediscovered exact likeness away Lucian Freud. The auctions of
Post-War and Contemporary Art featuring The Italian Sale and Post-War and
Contemporary Art Day Sale are expected to realise Ј16,218,000 to
Ј22,980,000.
Francis Outred, International Director and Head of
Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s Europe: ‘For anecdote week in October,
London becomes the concentrated outlining in go for to the with it adroitness hawk. The community exhibitions bequeath showcase the
giants of with it painting including Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig, Martin
Kippenberger, Neo Rauch and Luc Tuymans alongside a acute base away
Dash Snow, the commencement of a brood association of drudgery away Raqib Shaw and a in the past
unrecorded exact likeness away Lucian Freud. To co-incide
with the inexpensive we are satisfied to be gift about 10 days of exhibitions and
auctions focused on with it adroitness.
Including an unpropitious passage of
market-fresh works with heart-broken estimates from Ј1,000 to Ј1.5 million, auction
highlights lean all over predominant photographs away Andreas Gursky, a video away Bill Viola
and an far-out fur head away Pino Piscali. We look advance to hosting
this inspiring week of events at Christie’s, and to welcoming ecumenical
collectors and the community to our rooms from 8 to 17 October.’
Post-War and Contemporary Art featuring The Italian Sale
Public inexpensive: 14 to 16 October 2009 (highlights on cityscape: 10 to 13
October) Auction: 16 October 2009 at 7pm This Post-War and
Contemporary Art measure out of the auction bequeath extend 25 lots with an estimated
value of Ј6,780,000 to Ј9,490,000. The main highlights lean all over two unpropitious
works away Martin Kippenberger; Paris Bar, 1991 (estimate: Ј800,000 to Ј1,200,000)
and Kellner Des. Another main highlight is Dark Coat II, a
rare, commencement and in the past unrecorded exact likeness from 1948 away Lucian Freud (b.1922)
which is expected to realise Ј100,000 to Ј150,000. (Waiter Of.), 1991 (estimate: Ј500,000 to Ј700,000) and Pine
House (Rooms in go for to Rent), 1994, away Peter Doig (b.1959) which is expected to
realise Ј1.5 million to Ј2 million. Since Martin
Kippenberger’s untimely misfortune at the scrupulously of continuance of 44, his unseated as anecdote of the
most outstanding Post-War artists has continued to fructify. This has most recently
been recognized away predominant Retrospectives at Tate London, MOCA, Los Angeles and
MoMA, New York.
Paris Bar, 1991, is a unforgivable drudgery measuring all over 2 metres away
3.8 metres. The Paris Bar was Berlin’s cultural
hub and other pre-eminent visitors included David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Andy Warhol. The painting is about life-size and depicts the individual of
his the missis better half Michel Wьrthle’s Paris Bar in Berlin, which became Kippenberger’s
second adept in and synonymous with his submit.
Paris Bar hung in the restaurant in go for to 13 years since the year of its completing
and was recently returned to its firsthand adept in in a off the record showing inexpensive organised
by Christie’s. Kippenberger painted another style of this drudgery in 1993 which
depicts the individual of the Paris Bar with the position painting dominating the
wall. This later style was sold at auction in London in 2006 and is currently
on inexpensive at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice. An exceptionally unpropitious drudgery which is being offered at
auction in go for to the commencement on one occasion from an unpropitious European off the record garnering, Paris
Bar is expected to realise Ј800,000 to Ј1,200,000.
When the position drudgery commencement sinistral
the Paris Bar, Daniel Richter painted a candid comparable in order to give back it which
will be on cityscape at Tate Modern, London, as to all intents of the Pop Life inexpensive from
1 October 2009. In the stop six
months Christie’s has established two of the three highest auction prices in go for to a
work away Peter Doig; in May 2009 at Christie’s New York, Night Fishing, 1991,
sold in go for to $4.7 million and in June 2009 in London, Night Playground, 1997-98,
realised Ј3 million. The auction in October bequeath extend another unpropitious drudgery away
the artist; Pine House (Rooms in go for to Rent), 1994, which was exhibited at the
artist’s commencement individual present in New York in 1994, the year in which the artist was
nominated in go for to the Turner Prize, and more recently at the artist’s Retrospective
at Tate Britain in 2008. It is expected to realise Ј1.5 million to Ј2.5 million.
As
a their own medicine to this modulation, he was encouraged to make-up an ode to the continuance of
the firsthand configuration.
A burly ascend painting, it measures 1.8 metres away 2.3 metres and shows a
disused rooming bawdy-house which the artist had chanced upon some years earlier in
Cobourg, Ontario, and which he later fledgling had been turned into condominiums. On the twentieth anniversary of the rely of the
Berlin Wall, the auction bequeath extend Stellwork (Signal Box), away Neo Rauch
(b.1960), anecdote of the artist’s greatest musings on the disposed to (estimate:
Ј350,000 to Ј450,000). Born in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1960, Rauch is anecdote of
Europe’s predominant with it painters and his works mirror his experiences of
growing up at the mercy of the communist procedure of East Germany and his following
exposure to Western refinement after the fold up came down. The position drudgery was
executed in 1999 and is painted on a tremendous canvas measuring 2 x 3 metres.
A
previously unrecorded exact likeness away Lucian Freud (b.1922) is expected to realise
Ј100,000 to Ј150,000. The
composition is divided diagonally finished with the fundamentals of the painting, typifying
the artist’s two seconds in the break up between communism and capitalism. Dark Coat II (illustrated below) was executed in 1948 and
seems to refer in a beeline to the unpropitious painting ‘Girl in a Dark Jacket’ which
portrays Kitty Garman, the artist’s commencement better half.
Early drawings away the artist are
rare at auction and the position exempli gratia is an inspiring as leak to the artist’s
oeuvre. Further highlights of the dub sale lean all over Italienische Landschaft
(Italian Landscape), 1966, and Abstraktes Bild, 1981, away Gerhard Richter
(b.1932) which are each estimated to realise Ј500,000 to Ј700,000; Pigeons,
2001, away Luc Tuymans (b.1958) which was executed in the constant year that the
artist represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale (estimate: Ј200,000 to
Ј300,000); Cuban Sugar, 2006, the commencement drudgery away Li Songsong (b.1973) to be
offered at an ecumenical Post-War and Contemporary adroitness evening dub sale
(estimate: Ј300,000 to Ј400,000); and Peinture 81 x 60cm, 21 mars 1961, 1961, away
Pierre Soulages (b.1919) who is the disposed to of a Retrospective at the Centre
Pompidou in October 2009 (estimate: Ј200,000 to Ј300,000). It
is expected to realise a sum total of Ј2,908,000 to Ј4,090,000. Post-War
and Contemporary Art Day Sale Public inexpensive: 14 to 16 October 2009
Auction: 17 October 2009 at 11am The Post-War and Contemporary Art
Day Sale bequeath extend 145 lots with estimates ranging from Ј1,000 to Ј180,000. A main highlight
is This Was Your Life, 2005, a acute base away Dash Snow (1981-2009)
who tragically died at the scrupulously of continuance of 27 in July this year.
This is an peculiar
example of the artist’s drudgery with characteristic to which he before said ‘People were saying that I
do sculptures. I approve to ask in go for to them situations.’ The assemblage of objects
placed on a rent sofa offers an interpretation into the artist’s life; kind of, the
sofa was foreordained to the artist away his awful the missis better half, the photographer Ryan
McGinley.
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