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Live Now on Artnet Auctions: Blue-Chip Works From a Slate of International Contemporary Stars
The "Post-War and Contemporary Art" sale is live now through November 18.
The "Post-War and Contemporary Art" sale is live now through November 18.
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“Post-War and Contemporary Art,” one of Artnet Auctions’s largest sales to date, boasts a wide variety of exceptional and blue-chip artworks by contemporary stars such as Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Rita Ackermann, Mimmo Rotella, Sol LeWitt, Marcia Hafif, and Sterling Ruby. Works in this sale come from a slate of international artists whose markets have shown incredible growth and volume sold over the past several years.
Top works in the sale include Love You Always (2014) by Damien Hirst, Terrestrial Accidents of the Supernatural (2000) by Rita Ackermann, Naturaleza Muerta con Pez (Still Life with Fish) (1945) by Amelia Peláez, and Untitled (2011) by Anish Kapoor. Each of these boundary pushing pieces shows the true mastery of the artist.
Don’t miss the opportunity to add these high value works, and countless others to your collection. “Post-War and Contemporary Art” is live now through November 18.
Hirst’s Love You Always (2014) is a romantic and macabre expression of life and death, with real butterflies permanently enshrined in a deep magenta heart. A true scientist of art, Hirst is known to craft meticulous pieces that consistently outsell their high estimates at auction.
Terrestrial Accidents of the Supernatural (2000) by Rita Ackermann is a high-value work by an increasingly sought-after artist. Ackermann is a contemporary Hungarian-born American artist, best known for her abstract, bodily works that address issues of anthropomorphism and femininity. Terrestrial Accidents of the Supernatural is a prime work in Ackermann’s oeuvre, situated firmly between representation and abstraction.
Amelia Peláez was the first and only female artist to gain prominence as part of Cuba’s Vanguardia generation, and her painting Naturaleza Muerta con Pez (Still Life with Fish) (1945) speaks to Cuba’s identity as an island nation. Peláez was the only female artist included in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1944 exhibition “Modern Cuban Painters.”
Finally, Anish Kapoor’s wall mounted dish, Untitled (2011) is a prime example of the ways in which the artist alters a viewers sense of sight, sound, space, and orientation. Works of this one’s caliber often sell for over $! million, making a $600,000—800,000 estimate exceptional for a work of this quality.