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Contemporary Art
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11 November 2008
New York
Consignments now invited |
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We are very pleased to announce our fall sale of Contemporary Art, which will be devoted to the highest caliber of international post-war and contemporary art. The sale will be held on 11 November at 2pm in our New York galleries. We are currently accepting consignments. If you are considering selling or would simply like a confidential evaluation, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss working with you. The deadline for consignments is September 29.
Enquiries please contact:
Tate Dougherty
Email: tate.dougherty@bonhams.com
+1 (212) 644-9128
For details on our related sales in London please click here.
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Inaugural Contemporary Art Sale for Bonhams New York Spotlights Collector Interest in Urban Art
A rare and important Banksy, a Mel Ramos oil on canvas superhero and a commissioned
Warhol portrait led Bonhams New York’s eagerly awaited May 13 Contemporary
Art sale. The auction, which featured 48-lots, attracted an international
pool of telephone bidders as well as a standing-room-only crowd to their
recently opened Madison Avenue galleries, bringing $2.2-million.
A very rare and important Banksy spraypaint and stencil on board happily surpassed expectations. Recently catapulted to fame for his politically charged, often ironic work, Banksy is becoming one of the most sought after young artists of his generation. The work offered, a very early stand-alone red and black painting of four monkeys bearing signs which read: “Laugh now, but one day we’ll be in charge,” has become one of the artist’s most famous and iconographic images.
The auctioneer’s catalog cover illustration was the Mel Ramos 1962 work The Green Lantern, signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Exhibited at the Oakland Museum in 1977 and illustratred in two books on the works of Mel Ramos, the 49x43in. painting sold for $600,000.
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Zhang Huan
To raise the water level in a fishpond (Waterchild), 1997
chromogenic print
Estimate: $15,000-20,000 |
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Philip Pearlstein
Untitled, 1970
oil on canvas
Estimate: $50,000 - 70,000 |
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Highlights
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Mel Ramos
The Green Lantern, 1962
oil on canvas
Sold for $600,000
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Banksy
Untitled ("Laugh Now ..."), 1998
spraypaint and acrylic on board
Sold for $252,000
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Star Lots
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