Video: Artnet Auctions Launches Modern + Contemporary Sale Featuring Works By Jasper Johns, Andy War

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Video: artnet Auctions Launches Modern + Contemporary Sale Featuring Works by

Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Damien Hirst October 29 - November 12


NEW YORK and BERLIN, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --


    artnet Auctions is now featuring the Modern + Contemporary Sale, an online auction featuring

70 artworks by 50 artists representing some of the most important artistic movements from the

20th century to the present.


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    Leading the sale is a group of early modern masterpieces including

Untitled, ca. 1949, a pictographic pastel painting by American artist Adolph

Gottlieb (estimate: $150,000-$200,000). Gottlieb is recognized as one of the

most influential artists of the 20th century. While he is perhaps best known

for his "burst" abstractions, his early pictographic works are rare and

highly sought after. Untitled is among the artist's most accomplished works

from this period. Other modern works include Magnificent Bay and Mountains

with a Little Vagary, 1927, a surrealist nude by American painter and writer

Rockwell Kent (estimate: $12,000-$15,000); Lake George, 1928, a richly hued

waterscape by John Marin that was originally exhibited at the Stieglitz

Gallery in 1929 ($150,000-$250,000); and Untitled, a 1960 painting by

abstract expressionist Hans Burkhardt (estimate: $20,000-$25,000).


    Also featured in the sale are important examples of the Dada, Surrealist

and Fluxus movements by ground-breaking artists including Marcel Duchamp, Man

Ray, Yves Tanguy and Nam June Paik. Among the highlights is the seminal work

by Fluxus artist Nam June Paik, TV Cello (estimate: $210,000-$250,000). Now

a world-famous artist, Paik was considered radical in the 1960s when he

introduced video art, in the form of television, into performance art. TV

Cello is one of a small number of unique versions and has rarely appeared at

auction. An actual cello constructed of mixed media including Plexiglas and

three working televisions, the artwork offers a performance within a

performance, as the cello can be played while simultaneously the televisions

roll an endless loop of another performance.


    Bringing the sale to the present are works by cutting edge contemporary

artists including John Chamberlain, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor

and Andy Warhol. Mezzomangle, 2007, is an extraordinarily realized recent

work by the American Pop artist John Chamberlain. Chamberlain broke new

ground in the 1960s with his "crushed car" metal sculptures. Mezzomangle

adopts the familiar medium of painted and chromed steel. However, the subtle

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colors and delicate articulation of the metal is emblematic of the artist's

more refined later works. Other contemporary masterworks include Sun, Sea and

Mountains, Norway, 2003, a brilliant sunset executed in watercolor and

gouache on paper by David Hockney (estimate: $350,000-$450,000) and Orange

Circle, 1996, a dry-pigment sculpture by Anish Kapoor from the artist's

Wounds and Absent Objects series (estimate: $120,000-$150,000).


    We invite you to browse the sale. Visit



    About artnet:

    artnet has been online since 1995 and is host to approximately 2,000,000

visitors each month. Through its Price Database of over four million auction

sales results and its Gallery Network of over 2,200 galleries worldwide,

artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market. With

the new Online Auctions, artnet has added a transaction platform to its

successful information services.





SOURCE: artnet


    CONTACT:   Sarah Bradley, 

                         +1-212-497-9700 ext. 197, 

                         sbradley@artnet.com


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