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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
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
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