10 Abstract Works of Contemporary Art by Warhol, Dubuffet and more

Andy Warhol, Abstract Painting.
Estimate: £100,000–150,000.

Warhol’s unprecedented art of abstraction stands as the ultimate conclusion to the artist's epic career. In addition to his most famous works from this period – the Shadow Paintings, the Oxidation Paintings and the Rorschach series – the artist also produced a series of Abstract Painting s , which includes this lot.

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Damien Hirst, Beautiful, intense, violently, gorgeous, painful, invading love, painting.
Estimate: £150,000–200,000.

A cacophony of riotous colour, Beautiful, intense, violently, gorgeous, painful, invading love, painting is an arresting and early example from Damien Hirst’s iconic series of Spin Paintings. Bursting with a dynamic vitality, a spinning vortex pulsates outward offering visions of vigorous movement and unruly colour.

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Jean Dubuffet, Mire G 78 (Kowloon)
Estimate: £150,000–200,000.

A dazzling variant of the Mires series, Jean Dubuffet’s penultimate body of work, Mire G 78 (Kowloon) is vibrant and engaging: quintessentially late Dubuffet.

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Andy Warhol, Rorschach
Estimate: £70,000–90,000.

Rorschach is a stunning example of Andy Warhol’s eponymous series, which mirrors the methods of the famous ‘inkblot’ test. The test, which was invented by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, provided ten different standardised blots of ink on paper which the patient was encouraged to decipher.

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Damien Hirst, Spot Drawing No. 2
Estimate: £80,000–120,000.

Nicolas Serota: "When you did the first Spot Painting , did you see that as changing the world? Or changing your world?"

Damien Hirst: "Yeah, the first [Spot Painting] on canvas absolutely changed my world. I’d looked at all this stuff like conceptual art, but it was the first time I had clarity in some way.

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Sam Francis, Untitled
Estimate: £25,000–35,000.

Standing as a powerful testament to the artist’s unique visual language, Untitled combines the most essential forms of Sam Francis’ oeuvre: vivid, radiant colour and intricate, meandering form. “I am fascinated by gravity,” Francis wrote, “I like to fly, to soar, to float like a cloud, but I am tied down to a place… Painting is a way in and out” (Sam Francis cited in: Peter Selz, Sam Francis, New York 1975, p. 14). Like swirling galaxies, or clouds pulsating with mystery, the forms of Untitled exist in constant metamorphosis.

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Afro, Composizione Rosso Giallo
Estimate: £180,000–250,000.

Created as an intense celebration of colour and light, Composizione Rosso Giallo by Italian artist Afro is a festival of vibrancy that radiates from the canvas like a speckled sunset forcing its deep drowsy rays through the thick clouds. An explosion of elements emanate from the canvas, poetically brought to life by Afro’s brush.

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Wols, Poisson £15,000–25,000.

Upon moving to Paris as an adolescent, Wols discovered the burgeoning Surrealist movement and manifested particular interest for the work of Yves Tanguy. When World War II broke out, Wols was profoundly impacted by the atrocities that surrounded him and had no other recourse than to channel his emotions through his artistic output.

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Günther Förg, o. T.
Estimate: 100,000–150,000

“I think if we take a broader perspective we could say that, fundamentally as soon as we engage with painting, we have the same problems that faced those at the beginning of the century or even before; problems around colour, form, composition.” (Gunther Förg).

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Jean-Paul Riopelle, Composition
Estimate: £60,000–80,000.

“The painting must work itself out. I never tell myself, for instance, that I have to paint like this or like that to get one effect or another. If I reach that point, I stop. It’s dangerous ... because then I am on the technical side of painting. There is always some solution to improve a painting that isn’t working. But this does not interest me. It loses its emotional unity." (Jean-Paul Riopelle: Michel Waldberg, ‘Riopelle, The Absolute Gap’.)

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