LONDON.- Phillips Evening and Day Editions auctions in London will present a selection of works by celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The two auctions will include over 260 lots, carrying a pre-sale estimate of 2.2 to 3.2 million.
Editions’ strong offering include prints and multiples by Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Lucien Freud, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Julian Opie, Georges Braque, Gnther Frg and Louise Bourgeois.
With a heavy offering of Pop Art and Classic Modernism, prints and multiples by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall are amongst the top lots in the Evening portion of the auction. The iconic styles of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, who ordinarily focus on contemporary, everyday imagery (including advertisements, comics, celebrities, and soup-cans), both repeatedly turned their attention to art history. From the late 1960s, Lichtenstein began exploring classical motifs, with the defining elements of Futurism, Cubism, Surrealism, and finally Expressionism featuring regularly in his work throughout the following decades. Similarly, in the 1980s, Warhol transformed singular historical works of art (or rather, their reproductions) into recognisably Warholian icons, with his versions of works by Lucas Cranach, Giorgio de Chirico, and Edvard Munch, along with his Details of Renaissance Paintings series, forming the backbone of Warhol’s last, busy decade.
Lichtenstein and Warhol’s focus on repetition and seriality, of continuing (through parody) a series of familiar images, is key to both artists’ exploration of art history.
Highlights
• ANDY WARHOL, $ (Quadrant) , 1982. Estimate 100,000 - 150,000
• ANDY WARHOL, Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus 1482) , 1984. Estimate 120,000 - 180,000
• ANDY WARHOL, Cowboys and Indians , 1986. Estimate 120,000 - 180,000
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWEDISH COLLECTION
• AFTER MARC CHAGALL, Carmen by Charles Sorlier, 1966. Estimate 25,000 - 35,000
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
• ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Expressionist Woodcut Series , 1980. Estimate 80,000 - 120,000
• ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Reflections on The Scream, from Reflections series , 1990. Estimate 70,000 - 90,000
• LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Fugue , 2003-05 Estimate 40,000 - 60,000
• ANDY WARHOL, Muhammad Ali , 1978. Estimate 50,000 - 70,000
• JOAN MIR, Femmes (Women), 1965. Estimate 15,000 - 20,000
• PABLO PICASSO, Bacchanale, 1959. Estimate 35,000 - 45,000
• WASSILY KANDINSKY, Radierung No. 1 (Etching No. 1), 1916. Estimate 10,000 - 15,000
