Contemporary Titans: Little and Large

Contemporary Titans: Little and Large

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  Yves Klein, Portrait Relief Of Arman (PR 1),
  Estimate £400,000–600,000.
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction.

  Portrait Relief of Arman, (PR 1) is a spectacular distillation of the artist’s philosophical and aesthetic theories. One of three planned portrait reliefs, each based on plaster casts of Klein’s closest and oldest friends from Nice, Arman, Martial Raysse and Claude Pascal. As a reflection of the crucial position Portrait Relief of Arman, (PR 1) holds in his oeuvre, in 1968 another edition of this work was the first piece by the artist to be acquired by the French government for the national collection.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London

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  Yves Klein, Untitled Blue Sponge Sculpture, (Se 322).
  Estimate £35,000–45,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  “While working on my paintings in my studio, I sometimes used sponges. Evidently, they very quickly turned blue! One day I perceived the beauty of blue in the sponge; this working tool all of a sudden became a primary medium for me. The sponge has that extraordinary capacity to absorb and become impregnated with whatever fluid, which was naturally very seductive to me", Yves Klein, 1959.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Yves Klein, Petit Venus Bleue.
  Estimate €5,000–6,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  What do you give the person who has everything? A very small sensuous female figure painted with the International Klein Blue and juxtaposed against a gold leaf background is a good place to start.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale.
  Estimate £500,000–700,000.
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction.

  Concetto Spaziale enacts Lucio Fontana’s shattering of the distinction between the art object and the space containing it. In terms of unparalleled economy, the present work encapsulates the principles of the Spazialismo movement, that there is no difference between the artwork and its environment, that, paradoxically, no true art object can occupy space.
  
  Contemporary Art Evening Auction
  26 June | London

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  Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale (Teatrino nero).
  Estimate €10,000–15,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  The abstract black background punctured with Fontana’s tell-tale buchi (holes) is framed in a more naturalistic landscape that brings this spatial exploration down to earth.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Gerhard Richter, Untitled, 1994.
  Estimate £100,000–150,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Untitled is a sublime work on paper that encapsulates Gerhard Richter’s ground breaking investigations into abstraction as well as his enduring engagement with perception in the photographic era.  The layered excavation and resonant accumulation of colour engendered by the squeegee imparts an eroded surface reminiscent of myriad natural forms: sunsets, sunrises, shoals, riptides, and cresting waves.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Gerhard Richter, Flow (P4).
  Estimate €3,000–4,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  One of the four mesmerising aluminium mounted works by Richter in the Contemporary Editions online-only sale. Each has their own idiosyncratic and intricate patterning. This is an opportunity to acquire a work by one of the most important contemporary artists of this century that should not be passed up.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Alighiero Boetti, Il Progressive Svanire Della Consuetudine.
  Estimate £40,000–60,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Primarily associated with the Arte Povera movement, between 1971 and his death in 1994 Alighiero Boetti worked on creating embroidered pieces. These ranged from his Mappa, or maps of the world, and his Arrazi, or word squares, of which the present work is an example.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Alighiero Boetti, Insicuro noncurante.
  Estimate €70,000 –90,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  Insicuro noncurante, a portfolio of eighty-two numbered sheets, is an overview of Boetti's artistic production from 1966 to 1975. The portfolio reproduces original sketches and postcards, maps, and letters in a survey like compilation of many of his most significant works made during that time. Developed with printmaker Rinaldo Rossi, the portfolio is, among other things, a homage to the American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), who, like Boetti, spent considerable energy and effort handcrafting miniature models of much of his work.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Victor Vasarely, Pulsar – Va.
  Estimate £60,000–80,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Considered the grandfather of Op Art, Vasarely's dazzling compositions are an important part of modern art history.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Victor Vasarely, Vega mir. from Bach album.
  Estimate €1,000 –1,500.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  This sculptural work fills the space with its optical play on light and shapes, in an elegant black and white, so representative of the artist’s oeuvre.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Dan Flavin, Untitled (To Lucie Rie, Master Potter) 1C.
  Estimate £70,000–100,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Sale.

  This work belongs to a series of neon compositions that the artist did in homage to Lucie Rie, whose work he admired and collected.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London
  

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  Dan Flavin, Guggenheim tondo (pink/blau).
  Estimate €1,500–2,500.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  A contemporary still life of two contrasting colours in a double sided petrified splash. The work unites conceptual art with pop art with a sculptural twist as this work can also be displayed rolled up.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online
  

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  Yayoi Kusama, Untitled.
  Estimate £40,000–60,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Executed when Yayoi Kusama was in her early twenties and already positioning herself as an avant-garde artist in Japan, Untitled is a mesmeric work on paper which documents an early expression of her infamous idiom.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkins.
  Estimate €12,000–18,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  "My room, my body, the entire universe was filled with [patterns], my self was eliminated, and I had returned and been reduced to the infinity of eternal time and the absolute of space. This was not an allusion but reality” (Yayoi Kusama cited in: Laura Hoptman, Udo Kultermann and Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama, New York 2000, p. 36).
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Jeff Koons, Balloon Rabbit (Red), Balloon Monkey (Blue), Balloon Swan (Yellow) (Three Works).
  Estimate £15,000–20,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Three glazed porcelain sculptures inspired by works from Jeff Koons’ iconic Celebration series.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Jeff Koons, Cracked egg (red).
  Estimate €1,500–2,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  Blue, Red, Magenta, Violet, Yellow. A rainbow of colours populates this iconic object by Koons. This edition recalls in particular the larger unique red piece kept in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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  Joseph Beuys, Vitex: Agnus Castus.
  Estimate £3,000–5,000.
  Contemporary Art Day Auction.

  Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys worked extensively in sculpture, installation and performance art, and was particularly active in social and political movements. For Beuys, sculpture and art had a natural connection with the idea of shaping and creating a better society.
  
  Contemporary Art Day Auction
  27 June | London

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  Joseph Beuys, La jambe d'Orwell.
  Estimate €6,000–8,000.
  Contemporary Editions Sale.

  1984: the eponymous work by George Orwell inspired Beuys in that same year to look forward to the 21st Century, elevating a quotidian object to the status of an artwork.
  
  Contemporary Editions Online: A Private Collection
  15–28 June |Online

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