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Yellow Ball: The Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection

20 September 2018 | 1:00 PM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

10,088,125GBP
Browse Lots
  • 36
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto Spaziale, Attese
    LOT SOLD.1,174,000GBP
  • 30
    Andy Warhol
    Dollar Sign
    LOT SOLD.730,000GBP
  • 45
    Damien Hirst
    Boys ‘n’ Girls ‘n’ the Sun
    LOT SOLD.574,000GBP
  • 24
    Damien Hirst
    Epiphany
    LOT SOLD.490,000GBP
  • 37
    Damien Hirst
    Midsummer Night's Dream
    LOT SOLD.466,000GBP
  • 55
    Damien Hirst
    Untitled 
    LOT SOLD.394,000GBP
  • 29
    Lucio Fontana
    Concetto Spaziale, Attese
    LOT SOLD.394,000GBP
  • 44
    Damien Hirst
    Pseudechis Papuanus 
    LOT SOLD.388,000GBP
  • 71
    Damien Hirst
    Love, Hate, Life, Death
    LOT SOLD.382,000GBP
  • 18
    Damien Hirst
    Lauryl Acetate
    LOT SOLD.370,000GBP
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Sale Number: L18621 Lots : 108

SALE TOTAL

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Yellow Ball: The Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection

Frank Dunphy: Art’s Secret Agent

This September, Sotheby’s is delighted to celebrate one of the most extraordinary art world collaborations of our times: that of Damien Hirst and his unstoppable business manager, mentor and ‘partner in crime’, Frank Dunphy. Yellow Ball: The Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection - a two-part sale and exhibition of over 200 artworks that charts the iconoclastic 1990s art scene of which Frank and Lorna Dunphy were at the very heart.

The core of the collection is a number of works by Damien Hirst - most made especially for the Dunphys, given as tokens of affection or in jest - which together chronicle the work and the play behind their adventures together and include a standout Spin Painting made on the same day as David Bowie’s, a mesmerising Kaleidoscope painting and an important early Spot Painting. Punctuating the sale are numerous pieces by the YBAs that speak to the spirit of the time, such as those by Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst and Rachel Whiteread.

Reflecting the Dunphy’s immersion in the art world as a wider whole, the sale is led by a magnificent white tagli by Lucio Fontana and a vibrant Dollar Sign by Andy Warhol, which was formerly in the collection of David Whitney.

Yellow Ball: The Frank and Lorna Dunphy Collection

Frank Dunphy: Art’s Secret Agent

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Antonia Gardner
Deputy Director
Specialist
Contemporary Art
+44 20 7293 5585
antonia.gardner@sothebys.com
Yessica Marks
Director
Senior Specialist
Prints
+44 20 7293 5212
yessica.marks@sothebys.com
Thomas Podd
Specialist
British & Irish Art Post 1850
+44 (0)20 7293 5497
thomas.podd@sothebys.com
Nicholas Hemming-Brown
Cataloguer
Impressionist & Modern Art
+44 20 7293 6619
nicholas.brown@sothebys.com
Adam Trunoske
Junior Specialist
20th Century Design
+44 207 293 5543
adam.trunoske@sothebys.com
Julie Noble
Director
Senior Project Manager
+44 20 7293 5392
julie.noble@sothebys.com
Riccardo Freddo
Administrator & Project Assistant
+44 20 7293 6706
riccardo.freddo@sothebys.com
   
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