Post-War & Contemporary Art/Evening
Sale 1150
13 November 2002, 7:00 pm*
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York


*Admission by ticket only
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The centerpiece in this season's Post-War & Contemporary art sale is reserved for Happy Tears, from one of Roy Lichtenstein's famous comic book series. This painting of a woman's face framed by flaming-red hair and crying with a big smile on her face has not appeared on the market since it was purchased nearly 30 years ago by its first and only owner.

Another magnificent work is 0 Through 9 by Jasper Johns, one of the artist's most famous painterly solutions to the ultimate 'illogicality of logic' inspired by his reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus.

Andy Warhol is represented with several works such as Self-Portrait, which originated as a simple snapshot taken at a Times Square photo-booth in the mid-1960s; Big Electric Chair, the instrument of death and an iconic image of supposedly civilized killing; and Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot).

Further highlights include the first major Barnett Newman, White Fire I, to appear at auction since 1995; and Takashi Murakami's enormous three-panel painting When the Double-Helix is Aroused I Hear a Familiar Voice, the first work by the acclaimed Japanese artist to appear in a major evening sale.

Read about Christie's Post-War/Day and Contemporary Art/Day sales.

Browse the evening sale catalogue to view the entire sale and leave absentee bids online.





ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Sale 1150, Lot 47
Campbell's Soup Can (Tomato)
Synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas
Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000