Today, We Share With You Our Auction Selection From The Contemporary Art Sales At Christie’s New-York (Nov. 9&12, 2021)
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CHRISTOPHER WOOL (B. 1955)
UNTITLED, 1990
ENAMEL ON ALUMINUM
108 X 72 IN. (274.3 X 182.9 CM.)
“I always considered myself involved with painting. I can’t imagine someone seeing one of those and not realizing it’s a painting. I think the way I used text was not didactic. I was not speaking about art, I was just making paintings. The text was more subject than anything else.”
Christopher Wool
Christopher Wool is a contemporary American painter. In his paintings, Wool contrasts bold stenciled text or abstract brushwork with white backgrounds. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 6,500,000 – USD 8,500,000

CLAIRE TABOURET (B. 1981)
THE STAINS (GARNET), 2017
ACRYLIC ON PANEL
24 X 18 IN. (61 X 45.7 CM.)
Claire Tabouret studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Motivated by a sensitivity to the passing of time and the floodgates of vulnerability opened by human relationships, Tabouret’s painting practice is paced between periods of productive urgency and quiet reflection, and animated by layers, fabrics, and full, loose brushstrokes. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 50,000 - USD 70,0000

DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE (B. 1932)
COPAL #3, 1975
COLORED PENCIL AND COPAL ON PAPER COLLAGE MOUNTED ON PAPERBOARD
COLLAGE: 19 5/8 X 15 IN. (49.8 X 38.1 CM.)
OVERALL: 39 1/8 X 29 IN. (99.4 X 73.7 CM.)
Dorothea Rockburne is an American artist whose works merge aspects of geometry, nature, and Egyptology. Employing a range of media, Rockburne arranges her materials using a logic based in both mathematics and symbology. “Even though it has an intellectual basis and mathematical structure, my work comes from a deep emotional source within me,” she explained. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 8,000 - USD 10,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
MARIA SHRIVER, 1986
ACRYLIC AND SILKSCREEN INK ON CANVAS
40 X 40 IN. (101.6 X 101.6 CM.)
"Went right downtown because Maria Shriver was coming at 11:00 (cab 5$). And she's really pretty and she took good pictures." – Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. Like his contemporaries Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol responded to mass-media culture of the 1960s. His silkscreens of cultural and consumer icons—including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Brillo Boxes—would make him one of the most famous artists of his generation. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 400,000 - USD 600,000

DAVID HAMMONS (B. 1943)
UNTITLED, 2004
WALL-MOUNTED SCULPTURE COMPRISED OF 13 AFRICAN MASKS, WOOD, METAL, WIRE, ROPE, STRAW, AND MIRROR
39 X 11 X 55 IN. (99.1 X 27.9 X 139.7 CM.)
David Hammons’s totemic sculpture is a powerful talisman that projects the spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic embodiment of the artist’s career. Under Hammons’s astute eye, an apparently rudimentary assemblage of discarded ephemera becomes imbued with a new and powerful narrative. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 3,000,000 - USD 5,000,000

RICHARD PETTIBONE (B. 1938)
« ANDY WARHOL, '25 FLOWERS #1', 1963 », 1971
ACRYLIC AND SILKSCREEN INK ON CANVAS, IN ARTIST'S FRAME
7 7/8 X 7 ¾ IN. (20 X 19.7 CM.)
Richard Pettibone is one of the pioneering artists to use appropriation techniques. Pettibone was born in Los Angeles, and first worked with shadow boxes and assemblages, illustrating his interest in craft, construction, and working in miniature scales. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 120,000 - USD 180,000

WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997)
SEATED WOMAN, 1969-1980
BRONZE
26 ¾ X 39 X 21 IN. (68 X 99.1 X 53.3 CM.)
N9 (EDITION OF NINE PLUS TWO ARTIST'S PROOFS)
Willem de Kooning was a renowned American-Dutch painter that helped form the Abstract Expressionist movement. His gestural works—which were loosely based on figures, landscapes, and still lifes—helped establish a distinctly American style of painting. Perhaps De Kooning’s most famous series were his Woman paintings, inspired in part by Pablo Picasso’s work, they featured a wholly original approach to deconstructing the figure. “I don't paint with ideas of art in mind. I see something that excites me. It becomes my content,” the artist once explained. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 500,000 - USD 700,000

JAMES ROSENQUIST (1933-2017)
UNTITLED, 1988
OIL ON CANVAS MOUNTED ON PANEL
44 X 60 IN. (111.8 X 152.4 CM.)
The essence is to take very disparate imagery and put it together and the result becomes an idea, not so much a picture. It’s like listening to the radio and getting your own idea from all these images that are often antidotes—acid—to each other. They make sparks or they don’t.
– James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was an American Pop artist known for his monumental paintings and prints. Often appropriating commercial imagery, his montage-like works combined popular culture, Surrealism, and historical painting methods. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 300,000 - USD 500,000

RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)
UNTITLED, 1980
ACRYLIC, WAX CRAYON AND GRAPHITE ON PAPER
31 ¾ X 23 ¾ IN. (80.7 X 60.3 CM.)
Richard Diebenkorn was an influential 20th-century American painter whose work was comprised of distinct aesthetic periods. Considered a quintessentially Californian artist, he is best remembered as a founding member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with David Park and Elmer Bischoff. “All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression,” he once explained. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 250,000 - USD 350,000

THEASTER GATES (B. 1973)
RESOLUTION 3: GET TO KNOW THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL, 2013
DECOMMISSIONED FIRE HOSE AND WOOD, IN ARTIST'S FRAME
59 X 94 IN. (149.9 X 238.8 CM.)
Fire hoses are something you don’t really think of until they’re necessary…but they’re filled with a real potency: the potential of this tremendous amount of water and water pressure.
– Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates is a contemporary American conceptual artist working in a diverse practice of installation art to address topics of social justice, gentrification, and urban renewal. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 350,000 - USD 450,000

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
RÉNE RICARD, 1984
OILSTICK, WAX CRAYON, COLORED PENCIL AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER
30 X 22 ½ IN. (76.2 X 57.2 CM.)
“We are that little baby, the radiant child, and our name, what we are to become, is outside us and we must become “Judy Rifka” or “Jean-Michel” the way I became “Rene Richard.”
(R. Ricard, “The Radiant Child”, Artforum, December 1981, p. 43)
Ahighly unique work of intimate delicacy, René Ricard offers an extraordinary view into Jean-Michel Basquiat’s psyche and serves as a crucial documentation of the artist’s life. Brimming with intense color and a vivacious coarseness, this work epitomizes Basquiat’s idiosyncratic style and brilliantly encapsulates the artist’s critical sensibilities. Basquiat created this work in 1984, a year in which the precocious 21-year-old would reach newfound heights of expressive power and ingenuity. – Christie's Lot Essay
ESTIMATE: USD 800,000 - USD 1,200,000

ISSY WOOD (B. 1993)
OVER ARMOUR, 2018
OIL ON VELVET
71 X 55 ¼ IN. (180.2 X 140.5 CM.)
Towering at nearly six feet tall, Issy Wood’s Over Armour is a formidable union of dichotomies: surreal and real, material and immaterial, object and artwork, it is a larger-than-life trompe l’oeil. In this work Wood presents a quilted leather jacket in full, pressed against the four edges of the picture plane, painted on a cloak of black velvet. Softly smudged, fluttering brushstrokes coax the form into reality. Each quilted panel of the jacket is meticulously toned with shadows and finished with bright white strokes, glinting and gleaming like body armor. – Christie's Lot Essay
ESTIMATE: USD 150,000 - USD 200,000

DAVID SALLE (B. 1952)
QUARTET, 2007
OIL ON FOUR JOINED CANVASES
20 ¼ X 60 ¼ IN. (51.4 X 153 CM.)
David Salle is a contemporary American painter, printmaker, and photographer. A prominent Neo-Expressionist artist, his collage-like paintings feature overlapping imagery from a variety of sources, such as magazines, interior décor, and art history. His colorful compositions are rendered in a straightforward, uncomplicated style, layering different figures and patterns. “Ever since I started painting,” the artist has explained, “I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.” – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 60,000 - USD 80,000

ADOLPH GOTTLIEB (1903-1974)
POLYCHROMED MAZE, 1956-1958
OIL ON CANVAS
42 X 54 IN. (106.7 X 137.2 CM.)
Adolph Gottlieb was a prominent American painter and member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. Characterized by an idiosyncratic use of abstraction that utilized pictographs and mythological symbols, his works achieved an emotional intensity through both color and line. “Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality,” he once reflected. “To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.” – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 300,000 - USD 500,000

NICOLAS PARTY (B. 1980)
LANDSCAPE, 2021
PASTEL ON LINEN
43 X 36 IN (109.2 X 91.4 CM.)
Nicolas Party is a contemporary painter and sculptor. He uses bright, playful colors that connect his work to Expressionism and Fauvism, and he creates immersive environments for his exhibitions that tap into both the new and the familiar. Party often creates wall murals as part of his installations, and his work also tows the line between figuration and abstraction. Pastel is Party’s signature medium, and it allows him to explore dreamy and surrealist qualities in his work. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1980, he lives and works in Brussels and New York. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 300,000 – USD 500,000

RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)
CANADIAN PACIFIC, 1982
PAINTSTICK ON PAPER
38 X 50 IN. (96.5 X 127 CM.)
Richard Serra is a contemporary Minimalist artist known for his monumental steel sculptures. Often daunting in scale, Serra’s swooping architectural curves often provoke dizziness and disorientation as viewers walk through their winding passages. Though he also makes paintings and prints, it is Serra’s exploration of the properties of unconventional materials—such as Splash (1968–1970), a series using molten lead, and Belts (1966–1967), sculptures of vulcanized rubber—gradually increased the scale of his work. – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 150,000 - USD 200,000

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (1927-2011)
MAGNESIUM REVOLT, 1977
PAINTED AND CHROMIUM-PLATED STEEL
71 X 43 X 42 IN. (180.3 X 109.2 X 106.7 CM.)
“I’m basically a collagist. I put one thing together with another thing. I sort of invented my own art supplies.” John Chamberlain
Standing under six feet tall with its uniquely human scale, John Chamberlain’s Magnesium Revolt, 1977 exemplifies the seamless, almost organic way that Chamberlain fits the rough and uneven individual pieces of automobile scrap metal together to construct a harmonious work out of what had previously been an unrelated collection of raw materials. – Christie's Lot Essay
ESTIMATE: USD 800,000 - USD 1,200,000

MARK BRADFORD (B. 1961)
THE NEXT HOT LINE, 2015
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
84 ¼ X 108 ¼ IN. (214 X 275 CM.)
Operating at the confluence of cultural anthropology and socially nuanced abstraction, Mark Bradford has created a prominent place for himself in today’s rapidly expanding art world. Working in a singularly inventive mode that mines the depths of the urban environment and the history of painting in equal measure, his monumental canvases ask questions about the place of Black artists in the art-historical timeline. – Christie's Lot Essay
ESTIMATE: USD 4,000,000 - USD 6,000,000

GEORGE CONDO (B. 1957)
LINEAR CONNECTION, 2010
ACRYLIC, CHARCOAL AND PASTEL ON LINEN
50 X 60 IN. (127 X 152.4 CM.)
At the confluence of contemporary figurative painting and art history, George Condo’s colorful tableaux are populated by a range of idiosyncratic characters created out of the artist’s wonderfully transgressive graphic line. In Linear Connection, this line traces out a cast of characters that populate many of Condo’s painting from this period. Curvaceous nudes, Picasso-like faces, disjointed limbs, and of course Rodrigo — Condo’s ‘disapproving butler,’ a figure who observes everything, but says nothing. – Christie's Lot Essay
ESTIMATE: USD 2,500,000 - USD 3,500,000

HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
UNTITLED, 1976
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
6 X 8 IN. (15.2 X 20.3 CM.)
Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter and printmaker known for her unique method of staining canvas with thin veils of color. Her practice can be seen as a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Color Field painters of the 1960s. The techniques employed in works such as Mountains and Sea (1952)—a pastel blend of oil paint and charcoal on unprimed canvas—were influential to both Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. “One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it,” she once said of her practice. “It looks as if it were born in a minute.” – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 20,000 - USD 30,000

KENNETH NOLAND (1924-2010)
WEST, 1964
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
20 X 20 IN. (50.8 X 50.8 CM.)
Kenneth Noland was a leading American Color Field painter. His interest in working with flat colors developed into a fixation with simple shapes like chevrons, stripes, and bullseyes. Noland’s hallmark technique of staining unprimed canvas arose from his interactions with Morris Louis, Clement Greenberg, and Helen Frankenthaler. The late critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Noland, “An art of this sort places a very heavy burden on the artist’s sensibility for color, of course—on his ability to come up, again and again, with fresh and striking combinations that both capture and sustain our attention, and provide the requisite pleasures.” – Artnet
ESTIMATE: USD 150,000 - USD 200,000

DANIELLE ORCHARD (B. 1985)
TWO BATHERS, 2021
OIL ON LINEN
40 X 30 IN. (101.6 X 76.2 CM.)
Nodding to the great painters of the modern era including Picasso and Matisse, Orchard’s paintings often reference their styles and subject by portraying female nudes in a more abstract manner; the figures are portrayed in multi-perspectival Analytic Cubist style or abbreviated otherwise into solid contours and saturated colors. As she tackles depiction plane by plane, or each abstract part that she sculpts with thick impasto, Orchard is exploring the female corporeal representation.
While the concept of female nude finds itself deeply ingrained in art history as a muse and more recently being established as a subject of study, Orchard adds depth by infusing her own experiences as a female artist, having trained, posed, and even taught in life drawing classes. – Perrotin.com
ESTIMATE: USD 5,000 - USD 8,000

AARON GARBER-MAIKOVSKA (B. 1978)
UNTITLED, 2018
OIL AND INK ON FLUTED POLYBOARD, IN ARTIST'S FRAME
91 ½ X 80 7/8 IN. (232.4 X 205.4 CM.)
Aaron Garber-Maikovska is perhaps best known for his bold abstract paintings, which feature expressive mark-making and cryptic compositions, though his practice also spans drawing, sculpture, and video. The Los Angeles–based artist uses ink, oil stick, pastel, and acrylics to create his cacophonies of electric linework and geometric forms, which can evoke the styles of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. – Artsy.com
ESTIMATE: USD 20,000 - USD 30,000

TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)
STUDY FOR SEASCAPE #16, 1966
LIQUITEX, OIL AND GRAPHITE ON BRISTOL BOARD
IMAGE: 12 5/8 X 12 1/8 IN. (32.1 X 30.8 CM.)
SHEET: 14 ½ X 16 IN. (36.83 X 40.6 CM.)
"When I made the decision in 1959 that I was not going to be an abstract painter, that I was going to be a representational painter, I had absolutely no enthusiasm about any particular subject or direction or anything. I was starting from absolute zero. And in choosing representational painting, I decided to do, as my subject matter, the history of art: I would do nudes, still lives, landscapes, interiors, portraits, etc. It didn’t take long before I began to follow my most active interests: nudes and still lives." – Tom Wesselmann
ESTIMATE: USD 50,000 - USD 70,000
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