Christie’s and CORE announce a new partnership devoted to raising critical funds for CORE’s COVID-19 relief efforts across the United States


New York | 11 & 14 May 2021



Christie’s and CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), are pleased to announce a new partnership devoted to raising critical funds for CORE’s COVID-19 relief efforts across the United States.

CORE, founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee, is a disaster response organization dedicated to saving lives impacted by or vulnerable to crisis. Since March 2020, CORE has been working on the frontlines with public and private partners to provide free COVID-19 testing, essential resources, contact tracing programs, and life-saving vaccines to communities most affected by the pandemic. CORE’s mission aims to address the inherent intersection of disaster and social justice; whether it be in their domestic or international relief programs, CORE is the first on the ground to provide critical services to communities who need them most.

Over the past year, CORE has provided over 5 million free COVID-19 tests, distributed over 50,000 hygiene kits and built 125 shelters on the Navajo Nation, conducted over 4,000 contact tracing home visits to provide essential resource coordination, and administered over 1 million vaccines and counting in the U.S. CORE’s COVID-19 relief program focuses on low-income communities of color, providing direct access to the vaccine and a variety of essential services. In the vaccination effort, CORE and partners have pioneered an innovative mobile vaccination program, in Los Angeles and Georgia, to address the urgent health equity issues within low-income and rural populations and communities of color.

Throughout the years, CORE has received an overwhelming support from the art world and, through its partnership with Christie's, has been able to raise over 4 million dollars in auctions to support programs in Haiti, Bahamas, Puerto Rico and the US.

The selection of contemporary artworks that have been generously donated by the artists themselves will be sold during our 21st Century Evening Sale and Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale in New York, offered on 11 May. Proceeds from the sale will directly benefit CORE’s COVID-19 programs across Los Angeles, Navajo Nation, Washington D.C., Chicago, New Orleans, Georgia, and North Carolina.

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The selection of contemporary artworks that have been generously donated by the artists themselves will be sold during the 21st Century Evening Sale on 11 May and the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 14 May.

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Highlights

  • Rashid Johnson (b. 1977)

    Anxious Red Painting December 18th, 2020
    signed and titled 'Rashid Johnson December 18th 2020' (on the reverse)
    oil on linen
    72 x 96 in. (182.9 x 243.8 cm.)
    Estimate
    $200,000-300,000
    Related sale
    21st Century Evening Sale, New York, May 11

  • Urs Fischer (b. 1973)

    Quantum, 2019
    signed 'Urs Fischer' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
    aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, two-component adhesive, primer, gesso and solvent-based screen printing ink
    96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 182.9 cm.)
    Estimate
    $400,000-600,000
    Related sale
    21st Century Evening Sale, New York, May 11

  • Joel Mesler (b. 1974)

    New York, New York, 2021
    signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Joel Mesler 2021 NY NY It works if you work it' (on the overlap)
    acrylic and pigment on linen
    84 x 65 in. (213.4 x 165.1 cm.)
    Estimate
    $40,000-60,000
    Related sale
    21st Century Evening Sale, New York, May 11

  • Chuck Close

    Phil (Spiral), 2014
    signed, numbered and dated '43/50 Chuck Close 2014' (lower margin)
    etching on Arches Cover Cream paper
    image: 15 ⅜ x 11 ¾ in. (39 x 30 cm.)
    sheet: 29 ¾ x 22 ¼ in. (75.5 x 56.5 cm.)
    Estimate
    $8,000-12,000
    Related sale
    Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale, New York , 14 May

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About the nonprofit organization


CORE is an emergency relief nonprofit dedicated to saving lives and strengthening marginalized communities affected by or vulnerable to crisis. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CORE has been operating free testing sites across the country alongside local partners, providing essential resources and contact tracing services as well as part of its integrated “CORE 8” approach to combat the pandemic. In 2021, CORE is working with its partners nationwide to ensure safe and equitable distribution of vaccines as they become available to the communities the organization serves.

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Together, We Save Lives.


‘We are your neighbors, your brothers, your sisters, and your chidren. We are your friends. We are your community, and we ae fighting this together.’

— WE ARE CORE.

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