Matthew Barney (b. 1967)

Recommended features

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  • Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait

    Francis Bacon's poignant celebration of George Dyer, the artist's most important subject, will star in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 17 May

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  • ‘Capturing a feeling of creation’: Jeff Koons on Play-Doh

    The artist tells us about his meticulous recreation of a child’s toy in a work that became an instant icon when it debuted at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2014

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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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  • CoBrA: the last true avant-garde movement of the 20th century

    In the 70th year since its founding, we look back on the movement’s brief, furious life. On 23 and 24 April, 20 works by the group will be offered in Amsterdam

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  • Collecting guide: West Coast art

    From Hockney to Baldessari, Ruscha to Thiebaud — how the countercultural figures who flocked to California in the Sixties became art establishment names

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  • Rare Burgundies direct from the reserve cellars of Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé

    ​​On 25 May at Christie’s presents one of its greatest ever wine auctions — a unique collection of historic Burgundies from a legendary domaine

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  • 5 Rolex watches to excite collectors

    Watch specialist — and watchmaker — Patrick Hofstetter casts his eye over a selection of highly-desirable timepieces offered in our Rare Watches auction in Geneva on 14 May