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Mod
(1924 – 1984)
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo Torrontegui also known as Fernando M. Zóbel, was a Spanish Filipino painter, businessman, art collector and museum founder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...
Retiro
1959
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 240,000 - 340,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1930 )
Günther Uecker is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günther...
Weises Felt
1972
160 x 160 x 20,3 cm
painted nails and cotton fabric mounted on panel
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 800.000 - 1,200.000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1924 - 2008)
Kazuo Shiraga was a Japanese modern artist who belonged to the Gutai group of avant-garde artists. He was acknowledged internationally only after his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_S...
Untitled
1959
Oil on canvas
116 x 91 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 650,000 - 950,000€
Lot sold: 920,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1959)
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. His art work has been housed at the MoMA and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). His most well-known and repeated subject is a young girl with piercing eyes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshito...
Also see heather’s post on May the 6th, 2021:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OMG!
2012
Color pencil on cardboard.
32 x 32 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 60,000 - 90,000€
Lot sold: 351,300€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1919 - 1996)
William N. Copley also known as CPLY, was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur. His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
St Valentine's Day
1965
Oil on canvas
89,5 x 117 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 100,000 - 150,000
Lot sold: 302,400€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1901 - 1985)
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Du...
Topographie aux feuilles mortes
1957
Oil and paper collage on canvas
117 x 148 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 500,000 - 600,000€
Lot sold: 1,404,000€
Another work by Dubuffet was on sale that evening:
Le Domino
1966
101,5 x 42 x 51 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 200,000 - 300,000€
Lot sold: 617,500€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
Pierre Soulages
(B. 1919)
Pierre Soulages is a French painter, engraver, and sculptor. In 2014, François Hollande described him as "the world's greatest living artist."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_...
Peinture 65 x 92 cm 1952
Oil on canvas
65 x 92 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 600.000 - 900.000€
Lot sold: 2,009,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1945)
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_...
Hercules am Scheideweg (Herakles at the crossroads)
2007
Oil, paint, emulsion, wood, shellac and soil on board
190 x 140 x 10 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 300,000 - 500,000€
Lot sold: 351,300€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1932)
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard...
Felsenlandschaft
Watercolour and graphite on paper
1984
40 x 30,2 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 250,000 - 350,000€
Lot sold: 399,700€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B 1945)
Sean Scully RA is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully helped lead the transition from Minimalism to Emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of Minimalism in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Sc...
Double Window
1998
Oil on canvas
137 x 122 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 350,000 - 550,000€
Lot sold: 557,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1960 - 1988)
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he was part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Mi...
Dealer’s Dog
1983
Oilstick on paper
91 x 62
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 200,000 - 300,000€
Lot sold: 314,200€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1925 - 2010)
Leonardo Cremonini (1925-2010) was an Italian visual artist. He was the son of a railway worker who taught him the basics of painting. In 1935, his father had to relocate to Calabria for professional reasons. The Tyrrhenian coast where Cremonini would grow up would have a profound impact on his later work. Supported by a grant from the Collegio Venturoli he studied from 1932 to 1936 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and then at the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1948 he had his first exhibition in Verona. In Bologna he met Giorgio Morandi. Through him he received another scholarship, which in 1951 enabled him to stay in Paris. His first clients he found in the USA; due to an exhibition in the gallery of Catherine Viviano in 1952. This gallery hosted three more exhibitions of his work during the next ten years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard...
Obstacles, Parcours et Reflets
1975-76
Tempera and oil on canvas
195 x 260,5 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 50,000 - 70,000€
Lot sold: 138,600€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1934 - 2019)
Sam Szafran was a French artist. He has been buried in the cimetière parisien de Bagneux.
He was born in Paris in 1934, a son of Polish Jewish immigrants. He grew up in the Quartier des Halles. As a child, he knew that art was what he wanted to do. During World War II he was hidden in the countryside and later in Switzerland, but returned to Paris in 1944 to live with his mother. He was captured there by the Nazis and sent to a camp in Drancy. He was freed by the Americans and then left Europe, spending four years in Australia. He returned to Paris in 1951. Following abstract beginnings at the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière, where the young artist studied under Henri Goetz, he discovered pastel in the early 1960s. During the postwar period he encountered as well Jean Arp, Yves Klein, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Joan Mitchell, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck. In 1963 he married the Swiss-born Lilette Keller, and their son Sébastien was born the following year. After spending several years in studios provided by their friends, they finally moved to Malakoff in 1974.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sza...
L’imprimerie (La presse de l’atelier Bellini)
1974
Pastel on cardboard
137 x 98 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 400,000 - 600,000€
Lot sold: 617,500€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1891 - 1971)
Josef Šíma was a Czech modernist painter. After graduating from Academy of Arts in Prague where he was the student of Jan Preisler he was involved in the Devětsil movement and in Umělecká beseda in Prague before travelling to Paris in 1921. He took French citizenship in 1926. He was artistic director for the journal Le Grand Jeu in 1929 and friend of French poets René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and Roger Vailland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Šíma
Impact de Lumière II
Oil on canvas
1968
100 x 81 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 120,000 - 180,000€
Lot sold: 399,700€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1906 - 1969)
Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris (Tachisme).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_P...
Composition Abstraite
1969
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 150,000 - 200,000€
Lot sold: 448,100€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1898 - 1964)
Jean Fautrier was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fa...
Tête
1957
oil on paper laid down on canvas
55 x 46 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 200,000 - 300,000€
Lot sold: 375,500€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1921 - 2006)
Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_A...
Tête Eclatée
1960
Oil on canvas
193 x 130 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 150,000 - 200,000€
Lot sold: 277,200€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1923 - 2012)
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_...
White on white space
1962
Mixed media on canvas
129,5 x 161 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 250,000 - 350,000€
Lot sold: 339,200€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1926 - 1972)
Manolo Millares was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist, Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953, he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter. In 1957, Millares along with other artists founded the avant-garde group El Paso (The Step) in Madrid. The members of El Paso at the time of signing the manifesto and in their first exhibitions as a group were the painters Rafael Canogar, Luis Feito, Juana Francés, Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Suárez, Antonio Saura and the sculptor Pablo Serrano. After showing his work in San Pablo in 1957, Millares' work was introduced to the United States in 1958. He attained an international reputation by the early 1960s, and had a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in 1961.
Cuadro 83
1959
Mixed Media on Burlap
129,5 x 162 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 400,000 - 600,000€
Lot sold: 436,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1930 - 1998)
Antonio Saura Atarés (September 22, 1930 – July 22, 1998) was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...
Infanta
1962
Oil on canvas
162,5 x 130 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 150,000 - 200,000€
Lot sold: 233,100€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1923 - 2002)
Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ RCA was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pa...
Untitled 1954-55
Oil on canvas
59 x 71.5 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 130,000 - 180,000€
Lot sold: 252,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1904 - 2001)
Maurice Estève was a French painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice...
Ondoyante
1952
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 80,000 - 120,000€
Lot sold: 189,000€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1906 - 1997)
Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.
His work entitled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
Tlinko II
1956-59
Acrylic on panel
140 x 72 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 120,000 - 180,000€
Lot sold: 138,600€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1920 - 1999)
Olivier Debré was a French abstract painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier...
Tout Bleu clair taches vives
1989
Oil on canvas
400 x 400 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 120,000 - 180,000€
Lot sold: 151,200€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1938)
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist.
Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture.
Among his primary concerns is the "scene of production" as a way of presenting art and highlighting facture (the process of 'making' rather than for example, mimesis or representation of anything but the work itself). The work is site-specific installation, having a relation to its setting in contrast to prevailing ideas of an autonomous work of art.
Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et noir
1973
Acrylic on fabric
132,5 x 131 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimate on request
Lot sold: 157,500€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(1935 - 2020)
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo...
Wrapped Electric Guitar
1993
99 x 28 x 7 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 100,000 - 150,000€
Lot sold: 239,400€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Earlier this month Heather posted an introduction to Christo:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
There was also an announcement of what will probably be his last great project starting next month in Paris:
https://christojeanneclaude.net/artwo...
http://www.paris-arc-de-triomphe.fr/e...#
Mod
(1926 - 2005)
Raymond Hains was a prominent French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement. In 1960, he signed, along with Arman, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and Pierre Restany, the Manifesto of New Realism. In 1997 he was awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond...
Composition
1962
Metal mounted on panel
200 x 200 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 100,000 - 150,000 €
Lot sold: 138,600€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
( 1928 - 2005)
Arman was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (cachets, allures d'objet) to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arman
Le grand Violoncelle
1970
Mixed media
180 x130x25 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 40,000 - 60,000€
Lot sold: 100,800€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Mod
(B. 1937)
Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (born March 11, 1937, Tehran) is an Iranian painter, calligrapher and sculptor, known as a pioneer of Iranian modern art and as one of the earliest artists to incorporate Arabic calligraphy elements into his artwork. He is a associated as a pioneer of the Saqqa-Khaneh movement, a genre of neo-traditional modern art found in Iran that is rooted in a history of coffee-house paintings and Shia Islam visual elements. He lives in Paris and New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein...
Stanton Corner + Nomrehe 497
1976
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 116
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021)
Estimated: 70,000 - 100,000€
Lot sold: 88,200€
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
This is a copy of the original thread in the Art Lovers group.
We did this to have extra disk space to upload pictures to the group.
Every month I choose a theme and try to post as many different artists as there are days. (with the exception of last summer when I dedicated two whole months to one artist: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I won't reveal at first what the theme is so the first days it's a bit of a guessing game. For a couple of months now I’ve been thinking about a theme for contemporary or abstract art and now I think I found something. If you read the posts carefully it will be clear after a couple of days… I think.
You are welcome to comment on the pictures posted, or on other people's comments, you can say whatever you want (keeping with the rules of the group of course).
The only rule to this thread is that the person running this thread can post a picture here.
So please don't post a picture in this thread. That's all!
Enjoy!
Zao Wou-Ki
(1920 – 2013)
Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zao_Wou-Ki
Ville arabe
1953
Oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
On sale by Sotheby’s Paris (03 June 2021) estimated: 2.000.000 - 3.000.000
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...