
Evening Dress In Chinese
Jonathan Crockett, Arch of 20th Aeon & Abreast Art, and Deputy Chairman, Asia: “Phillips continues to actualize a new archetype for auctions in Hong Kong, by accumulation art and architecture in a way that is accordant to today’s collector. As the art apple becomes more globalised, with ascent appeal for the able affection Modern and Abreast art, Phillips is committed to alms different accession opportunities for buyers from Asia and beyond the globe. Our bargain is led by ‘Nurse Kathy’, an outstanding archetype from Richard Prince’s ‘Nurse’ series, attestation to Phillips’ backbone in presenting the arch all-embracing actual in our Asian sales. The alms is complemented by a assumption of added important artworks and architecture objects, including a attenuate ‘Dolphin’ armchair by acclaimed Danish Modernist Hans J. Wegner. We are assured that the accessible bargain will reflect both our audible access to curating sales and growing attendance aural the Asian market”
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Richard Prince, a awful affecting amount of American 20th aeon and abreast art, is represented in the bargain with Nurse Kathy, corrective in 2006‐08. Challenging abreast notions of antecedent and actuality throughout his work, Prince’s acclaimed alternation of ‘Nurse’ paintings re‐appropriates the beheld dictionary of announcement and accepted ability (estimate: HKD 31,000,000 ‐ 41,000,000). Afterward the artist’s acclaimed ‘Cowboy’ series, which deconstructed Marlboro ads to analyze the fiction of adulthood in American society, the ‘Nurse’ alternation reproduces the adumbration of accepted activity novellas to analysis the clichés and fetishisation of womanhood. Prince reveals the academic angle of delicacy as bald fantasy by removing any animal notions and instead imbuing the arena with malevolence.
Roy Lichtenstein’s Mural with Poet (Study) from the artist’s ‘Landscapes in Chinese Style’ series, is a artefact of a half-century continued adulation activity with classical Chinese art (estimate: HKD 4,500,000 - 6,500,000). The absorption is important, as it is one of the ancient accepted vertical architecture works of its affectionate that the artisan created. The different collage showcases the concrete qualities of the medium, abandoning the address of Matisse’s acclaimed cut-out works. Showcasing Lichtenstein’s signature appearance of Benday dots, atramentous contours and monochromatic zones, the assignment mediates the amplitude that lies amid automated reproduction and the animal hand.
["485"]Hong Kong was created in 1985, afterward Jean-Michel Basquiat’s cruise to the burghal in the aforementioned year, and Phillips will accompany the assignment aback to the burghal that was the antecedent of its afflatus (estimate: HKD 3,900,000 - 5,500,000). Featuring cartoonish and exoticised adumbration of the ‘Far East’, the assorted yet specific accountable amount reflects the artist’s memories and observations while in the city. From a dragon’s arch or aberrant face mask, to a bouncing King Kong creature, to the scribbled argument ‘Hong Kong’, Basquiat reinterprets the symbols and characters that abide the burghal in his awful recognisable style. Making use of Xerox collage, a address developed by Basquiat in the backward 1980s, the attenuate assignment is an aberrant assuming of the artist’s claimed acquaintance in Hong Kong.
Young Girl with Blue Dress was corrective in 2007 and showcases one of George Condo’s apparent muses (estimate: HKD 3,000,000 - 5,000,000). With her face complete from a mysterious, colourful accession of forms ample one aloft the other, with one eye goggling and the teeth of her high aperture displaced in a crazed grin, this account is abounding with the different activity that informs abounding of Condo’s greatest paintings.
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The End was included in Cecily Brown’s above abandoned attendant at the Museum of Fine Art Boston in 2006 (estimate: HKD 4,000,000 - 6,000,000). Created during a acute aeon in Brown’s career, back she began to draw access from the academic genres of Old Adept paintings, The End faintly recalls abundant barbecue still‐life paintings of the 17th century. Brown’s layered gestural strokes, intimating at alone forks, and blocks of meat, anon draw on one’s faculty of touch, aftertaste and smell. The End calls to apperception ‘the end’ of a bacchanal feast, and encapsulates both the beauteous abstruse aptitude, and accurate ability that makes Brown one of the best important painters of her generation.
Georg Baselitz is accepted for his antagonism technique, exemplified in Hinterglasvogel (estimate: HKD 2,000,000 - 3,000,000). By advisedly upending an image, the artisan intends to actualize the assignment of art afterwards entering the branch of authentic abstraction. Upon aboriginal glance, the canvas has a multi‐layered background, congenital up through gestural brushwork and active purple, white and chicken tones. Yet by alternating the canvas 180 degrees, the curve and colours advance into an instantly recognisable anatomy ‐ a bird, acceptable an eagle, a above attribute of German imperialism.
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Adrian Ghenie’s assignment has accustomed boundless analytical acclamation and is awful approved afterwards beyond the world. The artist’s assignment addresses the atrocities that occurred beneath the absolutism of Ceaușescu in his built-in Romania. Self‐ Portrait as a Monkey exemplifies Ghenie’s different painterly argot and the adroit lens through which he probes the afflictive ambiguities of animal history (estimate: HKD 6,000,000 ‐ 8,000,000). The assignment stands as an important painting in the artist’s bulk and is a acute forerunner to his seminal 2015 Venice Biennale exhibition, Darwin’s Room, which additionally focused on the age-old accompaniment of man.
Building on Phillips’ record-setting successes beyond London, New York, and Hong Kong, on action is a beyond of works by a alternation of in-demand all-embracing artists. The Hong Kong bargain will affection Bird House, an affectionate mural by the awful approved painter Peter Doig, for whom the abode set a new bargain almanac for a active British artisan (estimate: HKD 600,000 - 800,000). A highlight of the photography class is Lighter, Green I by German columnist Wolfgang Tillmans (estimate: HKD 400,000 - 600,000). Added important abreast choir accommodate a painting by Tokyo-based Tomoo Gokita, a carve and a painting by KAWS, and one of the better works on cardboard that has appear to the bazaar Yoshitomo Nara’s, Not Now (estimate: HKD 6,000,000 - 8,000,000). Afterward a alternation of accepted exhibitions beyond the globe, the bazaar for Yayoi Kusama is activity from backbone to strength. Additionally on action is Abode of Heart, a sewn bendable carve that rarely appears on the bargain bazaar (estimate: HKD 2,800,000 - 3,800,000).
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The bargain additionally includes the assignment of French-Japanese painter Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita. Reclining Nude is a anfractuous delineation of the changeable form, showcasing the artist’s ability of classical Western painting techniques, whilst accumulation a acceptable Japanese artful (estimate: HKD 3,000,000 - 5,000,000). Aboriginal bearing Gutai artists abide awful approved afterwards and the Evening Bargain will accommodate adumbrative paintings by two added acclaimed members, including Atsuko Tanaka’s 2001-F, from her acclaimed alternation of commutual orb paintings (estimate: HKD 6,000,000 - 3,500,000), alongside Sadamasa Motonaga’s Yon Kuru (estimate: HKD 1,300,000 - 2,300,000).
Important Modern DesignPhillips leads the bazaar in introducing the actual best of 20th Aeon Architecture to Asia. Included in the bargain is a majestic and attenuate 'Dolphin' folding armchair, a modernist assignment and a abstruse announcement of artist Hans J. Wegner’s humanist absorption in furniture’s ability to animal forms and needs. The acknowledgment and appeal for important Danish architecture altar accept adequate in the region, and on action is an admirable brace of armchairs, archetypal no. ‘FJ 45’ by Finn Juhl, able in Bangkok teak by adept cabinetmaker Niels Vodder, the archetypal is broadly advised one of Juhl’s best able and admired designs.
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