Phillips de Pury - Fall Auction 2011

Barnaby Furnas

Flood (Red Sea), 2006

£150,000-250,000

Sold £169,250

Phillips de Pury

October 12th - 13th

Contemporary Art Auction

This weekend has been colored by Phillips de Pury's presentation of what will be auctioned at the evening sale the 12th and the day show the 13th of October. I ended up going to both the preview night on Thursday and the brunch Sunday. It was a rather calm atmosphere at both days, with enjoyable conversations and bubbly drinks.

Bellow are some of the highlights. Later this week I will add what each piece actually sold for, but here are the estimated sale prizes.

Andreas Gursky, 

Copan, 2002

£180,000-250,000

Sold £ 217,500

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Toxic Schizophrenia, 1997

£180,000 - 250,000

£229,250

George Condo 

Cave Painting (2008) (Insert)

£300,000 - 500,000

George Condo is represented with 5 works at this Auction, the New Yorker is known for his dark and humorous portraits, dripping with madness...

Liu Xiaocheng

Breath (22), 2007

£5,000 - 7,000

In the middle of all the grand colors and statements I really fell for this understated painting. It portrays a protest in a subtle poetic and captivating way.

John Bock

Der Ultimate Rendite Rezipenten Aufbau bei Gleichzeitiger

futterung der modderMachtMasse, (2002)

£25,000 - 30,000

This piece makes you pause because of it's humoristic appeal. After seeing the work by John Bock we began talking about our expectations of seeing more humor being used in the future. Humor in Art as a counter act to the dreadfulness of decline.

Damien Hirst

Observation - The Crown of Justice (2006)

£700,000 - 1,000,000

£780,450

No major Contemporary Auction without a Damien Hirst.... this piece is quite stunning, looking closely you will notice one of his trademarks - the butterflies.

Cecily Brown

Park, 2004

£400,000 - 600,000

Sold £421,250

Don't pass on a Cecily Brown painting. They are a lot more intricate than what at first is captured by your eyes. Cecily Brown is perhaps one of the greatest paid female painters today, coming from a great knowledge of the History of paintings. Cecily Brown takes her inspiration from Impressionists to Abstract Expressionists, in-between, before and after... the turn she makes can often be seen as quite erotic, just stop and look for a little while.

Johannes Kahrs

Eifer-sucht (Jealousy), 1995

£120,000 - 180,000

John Korner 

Lolland (2004)

£8,000 - 12,000

Sold £12,500

Desiree Dolron

Xterior (Birgitte) (2001)

£40,000 - 50,000

Sold £49,250

Gilbert & George

Heart (2004)

£100,000 - 150,000

Absolutely genius!! The two collaborators has here created a photo with two of their heads, as turned into three, as turned into a scary ghost. It all depends on how you see the image first. I only saw the three faces at first, but when I came back home and glanced at the photos that I had taken, I reacted by saying out loud "Wow" this is spooky. I was glad I could come back to the Sunday brunch and have a second look before it sells, to what I will say is a fortunate future owner.

Christian Ward

Black Hut, 2005

£7,000-9,000

Sold £688

Susanne Kuhn

Kinderzimmer (2006)

£15,000-20,000

Sold £18,750

Robert Motherwell

Frontier No. 12 (1958)

£150,000 - 200,000

Marc Quinn

Red Lantern Cove (2010)

£85,000 - 120,000

£91,250

Jake and Dinos Chapman

I wanted to say "I've Missed You" (2008)

£40,000 - 60,000

Paula Rego

The Servant (1993-94)

£500,000 - 700,000

Another of the great selling female painters is Paula Rego. Behind her figurative work there is often a story of repression and violence. Here with the pastel painting "The Servant" she is for sure hitting me in the gut as well.

Yang Shaobin

Untitled No.15 (2000)

£120,000-180,000

£ 313, 250

Gunther Uecker

Horse-Children in crisis (1994)

£30,000 - 40,000

Jeff Koons

Seal Walrus Trashcans (2003-09)

£2,000,000 - 3,000,000

£2,113,250

Ugo Rondinone

Everything Gets Lighter Everyone is Light, 2004

£120,000 - 180,000

I will end the "walk through" with this lyrical title that Ugo Rondinone gave his spiritual tree;

"Everything Gets Lighter Everyone is Light"

With Love

Kristin