At Auction May 22
Our spring auction of Contemporary Art features a wide-ranging selection of sculpture, paintings and multiples from the last 75 years, with works by Ai Wei Wei, Banksy, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger and Yayoi Kusama. Pop-Art classics include Andy Warhol’s Mao, various Campbell’s Soup cans and important prints by Roy Lichtenstein. The sale also offers a breadth of portfolios, including Barbara Hepworth’s Opposing Forms, 1970, Friedensreich Hundterwasser’s Look at it on a Rainy Day, 1971, and Ellsworth Kelly’s Sample Portfolio, 1970.
Complete Catalogue Coming Soon
Color-Field Abstraction
Ellsworth Kelly, Blue, Yellow, and Red Squares, screenprint, 1970-71. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Josef Albers, I-S Va 6, color screenprint on tan paper, 1969. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Pop Art
Andy Warhol, Mao, color screenprint, 1972. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.
Andy Warhol, S&H Green Stamps, offset color lithograph, 1965. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Portfolios
Barbara Hepworth, Opposing Forms, portfolio of 12 lithographs, 1970. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Look at it on a Rainy Day, complete portfolio, 1971. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
Recent Works
Ai Weiwei, Artist’s Hand, electroplated rhodium on cast urethane resin, 2017. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500.
Jenny Holzer, Protect Me From What I Want, text on Resopal plate fixed on heavy board, 1990. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
Yayoi Kusama, Two Pumpkins, cast resin multiples, 2013. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.
Takashi Murakami, Oval (Peter Norton Christmas Project), plastic, vinyl, mini CD, 2000. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
Sam Taylor-Wood, Crying Men (Jude Law), c-print mounted on aluminum, 2003. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Art Brut
Jean Dubuffet, Sans Titre, pen & ink, 1966. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Abstract Expressionism
Zao Wou Ki, Paris Poems, lithograph portfolio, 1950. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, screenprint, 1951, printed 1964. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
For more information on the sale, contact a specialist in the Contemporary Art department.
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