Phillips de Pury’s upcoming Dec. 17 auction highlights are chock-full of ’80s goodness: big boomboxes, art boobs, Basquiat, T-KID, Ghost, and Cope2 tags on NYC subway maps, Keith Haring matryoshkas, Natasha Kinksi in her prime, a cool kid (note: not a yuppie) from Robert Longo, Kenny Scharf’s sardined color blobs (like the mural) and a crazy olde phone. Also, lots of pretentious furniture from before I was born.
Phillips de Pury’s upcoming Dec. 17 auction highlights are chock-full of ’80s goodness: big boomboxes, art boobs, Basquiat, T-KID, Ghost, and Cope2 tags on NYC subway maps, Keith Haring matryoshkas, Natasha Kinksi in her prime, a cool kid (note: not a yuppie) from Robert Longo, Kenny Scharf’s sardined color blobs (like the mural) and a crazy olde phone. Also, lots of pretentious furniture from before I was born.
Phillips de Pury just sold a record 100% of the 318 lots at an auction of the Estate of Mrs. Harry N Abrams, un-hoarding Warhol, Giacometti, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and more onto over 1000 registered bidders, making over $6 mil. It should trickle up as a bit of nice pocket change for the Russian magnates that own the auction house. Fun fact: Mercury Group’s yearly revenue is estimated at $8 billion. Read more »
Phillips de Pury & Company’s art auction in London is Feb 12-13 and just in time too, because I totally need me a Transvestite Brides of Christ vase, like now. In other good news: sad clowns are still popular. Some highlights: Basquiat. Also, framed canvas, found and fucked-up a la Banksy is estimated to sell at $94-125k. Each estimated at $234-312k are Andy‘s knifey stencils, Banks Violette‘s dilapidated chandelier made from crack-house leftovers, and Ugo Rondinone‘s diptych of Target symbol variations. Read more »
Tomorrow, Phillips de Pury continues their contemporary art sale, starting off with some more work by recently dead artists. Items up for bid include Dash Snow’s Whitney Biennial installation “Eat Shit and Die,” a mirrored record lined with “cocaine” and estimated at $15-20k; Marilyn Minter’s dirty foot photos; a “Swoosh” sculpture by Kenny Scharf and “The Golden Balls” of Terence Koh’s youth. Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to stand on Andy Warhol’s soap box or paper your walls with someone else’s party photos, tomorrow’s your chance at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art sale. In addition to one of Warhol’s wooden Brillo boxes, valued up to $900k, the smaller-than-normal auction features Dash Snow’s “Polaroid Wall,” estimated at the posthumous price of $40k to $60k. Also up for a bid is Jeff Koons’ $200k ice bucket, Banksy’s “Insane Clown” painting, Olafur Eliasson lightbox as wells as some pictures of nearly nothing by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Read more »
Phililips de Pury kicks off a themed auction series next week with Now: Art of the 21st Century. Promising “the most exciting contemporary works of art, design and photography to be made since the Millenium and that will come to define our current epoch,” the sale takes place September 26th in London. As though that ringing endorsement wasn’t enough, Simon De Pury assures it will be a “ground-breaking and taste-making” auction, including a selection of piss paintings, skull art, dead insects and monogrammed luggage featured after the jump. Read more »
Not surprisingly, contemporary art sales are not only down in New York, but in London too. At London’s June auctions of Impressionist and contemporary art, Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury made $270 million, down 70 percent from last year’s record $900 million haul. |Bloomberg|
Phillips de Pury’s Upcoming Graffiti and Pop Art Sale
This Saturday, a curated selection of urban art from the last 25 years, along with contemporary art, design, photos and toys hit the auction block at Phillips de Pury & Company’s New York sale. Offerings include paintings by graffiti artists from SEEN to Os Gemeos, pop art from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, fashion photos and nudie pics by Helmut Newton, Bert Stern and Steve McCurry—he took that famous photo of the Afghan girl. Plus art from Shepard Fairey and Faile. Prices range from a few hundred dollars for a plastic Godzilla to a few thousand for a Campbell’s soup dress to more than $15,000 for a set of signed KAWS prints. ANIMAL assembled some of the best investments from the pop art matrix of offerings below and you can view the full shebang here. Read more »
Daniel Colen + Nat Lowman, “Holy War,” 2005-2006, Oil on a Nate Lowman silkscreen ink print on canvas. Estimate: $15,000-20,000
It was a whirlwind week for auction houses across the city. After raking in big money from Part I of their Contemporary Art sale, Phillips de Pury is opening its door this morning (10 a.m.) for Part II, aka the much cheaper auction—which by normal people standards—is actually still pretty expensive. There probably won’t be “well dressed women” scouring for sugar daddy’s, but do expect a collection of peculiar pieces by some of the usual suspects: Tom Sachs, Warhol, Basquiat, others. Click below for some more samples including a grade school looking subway map, a reworked cover of the New York Post, a Murakami beach ball and some other primitive art world gems.
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