Phillips de Pury & Company's Sex auction in London on March 19 features 221 nudes and sex-related works by artists ranging from Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse to Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami, among a who's who of contemporary artists and photographers (see separate entry on the photography works for sale in the Sex auction).
Via PhillipsDePury.com:
This auction at Phillips de Pury & Company will advance the conversation on contemporary art, sexuality and the interplay between them in presenting works that challenge our concepts of desirability, gender and the way we consume sexual imagery.
The Matisse nude – Figure endormie, châle sur les Jambes, 1929 – is estimated at £7,000-9,000. Four cartoonish Picasso drawings are featured in the auction, with the highest estimate (£4,000-5,000) going to his Raphael et la Fornarina. VII: Le Pape est là assis, 1968 etching on wove paper. Of the three Warhol works, his 1977 Torso silkscreen on vellum paper has the highest estimate (£40,000-60,000). The highest estimate in the auction catalog goes to Jack Pierson's "Sex" (see slideshow below), valued at £60,000-80,000.
Other featured artists in the aution include Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indian, Kenny Scharf, David Hockney, Francesco Clemente, Arman, Allen Jones, Sigmar Polke, Martin Eder, Nathan Ritterpush, Alexis Rockman, Abir Kamakar, MOISÉS FINALÉ, Philippe Pasqua, Paul P, Lisa Yuskavage, George Condo, Kathleen Gilje, Trace Emin, Sue Webster & Tim Noble, Hugo Markl, Jonathan Meese, Tom of Finland, Kendell Geers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Chris Bracey,Grayson Perry, yun-Fei Ji, Simon English, Ugo Rondinone, Marcel Dzama, Ellen Cantor, Pavel Pepperstein, Marina Skugareva, Gosha Ostretsov, Vassily Tsagolov,Maxim Kantor, Anotn Solomoukha, Varich Bakhchanyan, Liz Neal, Agata Bogacka, Zevz, Goldie, Jocelyn Hobbie, Stave Canaday, Bendix Harms, Chantal Joffe, Cecily Brown, Brett Whitely, Eric Fischl, Armen Eloyan, Ken Akamatsu, and Takashi Murakami. A lithograph (one of 300) of Murakami's Hiropon sculpture will be among the most affordable works in the auction, estimated at £300-400.
Still too rich for you? The Sex auction catalog is also for sale, for $25. Hey, might as well start somewhere.
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Comments
Wow, some of those are really tempting. I'm new to that whole world and have only ever bought works from artists I know personally, but would love to get more into collecting. Too bad you can't show more of the nudes here – I really want the Marcel Dzama piece!
You know your slideshow doesn't even have the works from the artists in your headline? Ease up, Examiner! It's a sad world we live in when we're tiptoeing around art by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, you know?
Fab find. I went to the website to check out all the awesome art. Some wonderful pieces there. If only I had a couple thousand just hanging around! ;)
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