LIZ: Warhol’s iconic portrait to head Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale
Liz (Colored Liz) is part of the series of portraits Warhol executed in the 1960s when his near-obsession with three legendary muses in his life – Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy – drove him to create some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century. Liz (Colored Liz) is offered by a Private Collector and is expected to realize in excess of $25 million. Full release >
Lucian Freud’s Ib and her husband to be offered at Christie’s New York
The painting is expected to realize in excess of $15 million. Lucian Freud’s portraits are intimate visions of the life and the people around him so it comes as no surprise to find that his extensive family has provided the subject matter for many of his most important paintings. Isobel, Freud’s daughter, has featured in several of Freud’s paintings. Full release >
The ultimate Jeff Koons: Diamond (Blue)
Dazzling, magnificent, gigantically grotesque and staggeringly beautiful, Jeff Koons’s Diamond (Blue), 1994-2005 (estimate on request) will be the spectacular centerpiece of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 13 in New York. Part of the famed Celebration series, Blue Diamond – a sculpture that occupies not only a seminal place in Koons’s body of work but also in his personal life – will present collectors with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an oeuvre clef by one of the most important artists of our time. Full release >
Warhol, Rothko, Koons and Richter
The Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening sale will be rich in key works by the iconic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries and presents among its highlights Andy Warhol’s Liz, Gerhard Düsenjäger; Lucian Freud’s Ib and her husband; and Diamond (Blue) from Jeff Koons’s Celebration series. In its variety and depth, the sale presents collectors in Western and Eastern hemispheres with excellent and rare buying opportunities and is expected to realize in excess of $250 million. Full release >
Rare market appearance: Gerhard Richter’s iconic Düsenjäger (jet fighter)
An iconic Photo-Painting from the earliest phase of Richter’s career, Düsenjäger is part of an exclusive group of works depicting military aircrafts – many of which reside in museum collections. It is one of the largest and rarest of the artist’s monumental depictions of a single fighter jet in motion. This extraordinary work is being offered by well-known Chicago collectors Lewis and Susan Manilow and is expected to realize in excess of $10 million. Full release >
