NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's will present Post‑War to Present, a live auction taking place 26 February at Christie's Rockefeller Center. The sale contains works by today's leading artistic voices alongside celebrated figures of the post‑war period. The sale offers fresh perspectives on figuration and abstraction through the lens of contemporary artists including Keith Haring, Etel Adnan and Julia Jo, further highlighted by pioneering artists of the twentieth century, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Twombly and Roy Lichtenstein.
Headlining Post-War to Present is Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection, led by Jeff Koons' Winter Bears (estimate: $3,800,000 5,000,000), from his groundbreaking Banality series, presented alongside outstanding works by Josef Albers, Ed Ruscha, Diane Arbus and Charlotte Perriand.
Other collection highlights include Cy Twombly's Roman Notes (estimate: $700,000-1,000,000) from The Collection of Robert and Ann Fisher, and Eden Rock by Richard Prince (estimate: $500,000 700,000) from the Edlis | Neeson Collection. Also highlighted is Donald Judd's Untitled copper work from 1972 (estimate: $700,000-1,000,000).
Also included in the sale are leading examples of Latin American art, such as Obra 500, a luminous work by Olga de Amaral (estimate: $400,000-600,000) from Elaine: The Collection of Elaine Wynn and a monumental canvas by Tomás Sánchez. Outsider Art is incorporated for the first time in Post-War to Present, led by a rare, embroidered textile by Madge Gill (estimate: $60,000-80,000) the first to be sold in more than 50 years, and the first to ever come to auction.