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artnet auctions 24/7
Marie-Kathrin Krimphoff Tel. +49 30 2091 7840 - E-mail:
mkrimphoff(at)artnet.de
Senior Specialist for Modern and Contemporary Art
EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS
New York / Berlin / Paris, November 15, 2010 - artnet Auctions offers
continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. There is
currently an outstanding collection by leading contemporary artists like
Christo, Robert Graham, Damian Hirst, Andy Warhol and others on offer.
Untitled, 1984, by Keith Haring is the top lot in the sale. This 60 x 60
inch painting in day-glow orange acrylic is offered in pristine condition
for the serious collector (estimate: $850,000-$1,200,000). Other
contemporary highlights include a blackboard painting by Neo-Expressionist
David Salle (estimate: $9,500-$14,500), an oil painting by Russian
contemporary artist Alexander Kosolapov (estimate: $40,000-$50,000), and a
fabulous and rarely-seen suite of 30 screenprints in grey, on Japanese
ragpaper, 1973 by American minimalist Agnes Martin (estimate:
$100,000-$150,000).
The mid-century and the 1960s figure prominently in this sale; a
large-scale, 1962 mixed media collage on burlap canvas by Italian Gruppo
Nucleare painter Piero Manzoni (estimate: $120,000-$201,000) is
complemented by a vibrant 1966 canvas painting by 'artist's artist'
Fairfield Porter, Forsythia and Trees in Bud (estimate: $120,000-$180,000),
and a period 1964 tempera painting by abstract expressionist Helen
Frankenthaler (estimate: $25,000-$45,000). Included in this section are two
remarkable Madoura ceramics by Pablo Picasso in one of the artist's iconic
images which recurs throughout his?uvre: PAIR Male + Female Wood-Owls ,
1969, both hand-painted (estimate: $18,500-$24,500); and a rarely-seen and
unusual 1958 pastel urban landscape entitled New York City by Marc Chagall
(estimate: $100,000-$150,000).
Photographic works are a distinctive presence in the sale, and include a
silver print by Imogen Cunningham, Magnolia Bud (estimate:
$14,000-$16,000), a 1988 color photogravure Tiger Orchid (from Flowers
suite), by Robert Mapplethorpe (estimate: $8,000-$10,000), and two vintage
gelatin silver prints by Man Ray, Portrait of a Woman in Profile ca. 1925
(estimate: $8,00-$10,000) and Valentine Hugo as Queen of Diamonds, 1935
(estimate: $15,00-$20,000).
The sale also features modern masterworks by Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso,
and a collection of early twentieth century canvases by Philip Guston,
Lemonade and Doughnuts (Variation), ca. 1942 (estimate: $30,000-40,000),
Milton Avery, Still Life, ca. 1935, (estimate: $15,000-$25,000) and Raymond
Jonson Transparent Disks, 1934, (estimate: $20,000-$30,000).
Rounding out the sale are sculptures by some of the most celebrated artists
of the last century including Harry Bertoia and Leonora Carrington, and
Latin American works of art by Jesús Rafael Soto, Francisco Toledo, Arturo
Elizondo and Mario Carreño.
We invite you to browse the sale. Visit
www.artnet.com/ModernandContemporary
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visitors each month. Through its illustrated online Price Database of over
five million auction sales results from 550 leading international auction
houses and its Gallery Network of over 2,200 galleries worldwide, artnet(R)
is the leading online resource for the international art market. With
artnet Auctions, artnet(R) has added a transaction platform to its
successful information services.
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Company: artnet AG
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ISIN: DE0006909500
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Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart
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