Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale

This March, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Day Sale presents an exciting selection of works by leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, offered as part of our 20th/21st Century Art auction series. Leading the sale are Cecily Brown’s Mean Eyed Cat (2012), ahead of the artist’s highly anticipated exhibition Cecily Brown: Picture Making at the Serpentine Gallery in London; Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (Spoon) (1988), coinciding with the opening of Basquiat – Headstrong at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; and Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild (1992), following the artist’s acclaimed retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton earlier this year. The sale additionally features remarkable works by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Christopher Wool, Georg Baselitz and Günther Förg, alongside a significant conceptual contribution by On Kawara.

The sale brings together outstanding works from several renowned private collections. An Eye for Colour: Works from a Private Collection showcases iconic pieces by Yayoi Kusama and Andy Warhol. Matter in Motion: Works from an Important Swiss Collection highlights an exceptional group of Post-War works, including major examples by Cy Twombly and the celebrated Surrealist-turned-New-Objectivity painter Konrad Klapheck. Meanwhile, Where the Soul Finds Form: The Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection brings together defining works by contemporary artists such as Lisa Yuskavage and Elizabeth Peyton.

Christie’s is also delighted to present a grouping of twenty exceptional early works — paintings and drawings — by Lucian Freud from a Private British Collection. This offering celebrates the artist in tandem with the opening of Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery, London.