Video: artnet Auctions Launches Modern + Contemporary Sale featuring works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Damien Hirst October 29 - November 12 |
NEW YORK and BERLIN, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- artnet Auctions is now
featuring the Modern + Contemporary Sale, an online auction featuring 70
artworks by 50 artists representing some of the most important artistic
movements from the 20th century to the present.
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Leading the sale is a group of early modern masterpieces including
Untitled, ca. 1949, a pictographic pastel painting by American artist
Adolph Gottlieb (estimate: $150,000-$200,000). Gottlieb is recognized as
one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. While he is
perhaps best known for his "burst" abstractions, his early pictographic
works are rare and highly sought after. Untitled is among the artist's most
accomplished works from this period. Other modern works include Magnificent
Bay and Mountains with a Little Vagary, 1927, a surrealist nude by American
painter and writer Rockwell Kent (estimate: $12,000-$15,000); Lake George,
1928, a richly hued waterscape by John Marin that was originally exhibited
at the Stieglitz Gallery in 1929 ($150,000-$250,000); and Untitled, a 1960
painting by abstract expressionist Hans Burkhardt (estimate:
$20,000-$25,000).
Also featured in the sale are important examples of the Dada,
Surrealist and Fluxus movements by ground-breaking artists including Marcel
Duchamp, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and Nam June Paik. Among the highlights is
the seminal work by Fluxus artist Nam June Paik, TV Cello (estimate:
$210,000-$250,000). Now a world-famous artist, Paik was considered radical
in the 1960s when he introduced video art, in the form of television, into
performance art. TV Cello is one of a small number of unique versions and
has rarely appeared at auction. An actual cello constructed of mixed media
including Plexiglas and three working televisions, the artwork offers a
performance within a performance, as the cello can be played while
simultaneously the televisions roll an endless loop of another performance.
Bringing the sale to the present are works by cutting edge contemporary
artists including John Chamberlain, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Anish
Kapoor and Andy Warhol. Mezzomangle, 2007, is an extraordinarily realized
recent work by the American Pop artist John Chamberlain. Chamberlain broke
new ground in the 1960s with his "crushed car" metal sculptures.
Mezzomangle adopts the familiar medium of painted and chromed steel.
However, the subtle colors and delicate articulation of the metal is
emblematic of the artist's more refined later works. Other contemporary
masterworks include Sun, Sea and Mountains, Norway, 2003, a brilliant
sunset executed in watercolor and gouache on paper by David Hockney
(estimate: $350,000-$450,000) and Orange Circle, 1996, a dry-pigment
sculpture by Anish Kapoor from the artist's Wounds and Absent Objects
series (estimate: $120,000-$150,000).
We invite you to browse the sale. Visit
http://www.artnet.com/ModernAndContemporary.
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