Matthew Barney (b. 1967)

Recommended features

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  • 5 minutes with... Jean Dubuffet’s Personnage des Légendes

    Specialist Alma Davidsohn illuminates the story behind a picture that symbolises the friendship between Jean Dubuffet and the legendary MoMA curator Peter Selz

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  • David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist ( Pool with Two Figures)

    Ahead of its November sale at Christie’s, we take a deeper dive into one of the artist’s most iconic paintings

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  • Abstract Richter masterpiece from the collection of Eric Clapton

    Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild, bought by the rock great in 2001, unveiled as a highlight of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

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  • Seminal de Kooning to star in New York

    Ten years after becoming the most expensive post-war painting sold at auction, Untitled XXV  returns to Christie’s in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

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  • Dubuffet’s Les Grandes Artères unveiled as a highlight of November sales in New York

    In wonderful archive footage the artist, who died in 1985, describes his quest to ‘find a new way of looking at things’ 

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  • Big names at surprising prices

    Accessibly priced works by Yayoi Kusama, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Dubuffet, Wolfgang Tillmans and Lucio Fontana, offered in our First Open Online sale

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  • 6 questions to ask when buying works on paper

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  • Collecting Guide: 5 things to know about Street Art

    Christie’s specialists discuss Haring, Banksy and Stik, and how to bring the street into the home

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  • One of the most important European royal portraits to come to auction for a generation

    Offered on 6 December in London, Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England