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Phillips London Editions Has £2m Works Led by Judd

January 4, 2019 by Marion Maneker

 Untitled

Phillips editions sales in London later this month will feature prints by Donald Judd, Picasso ceramics, prints by Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, Bridget Riley, Sam Francis, as well as editions by Jeff Koons. Here’s Phillips’s release:

Phillips’ Evening & Day Editions sale in London will unite Contemporary artists including Banksy, Gerhard Richter and Thomas Schütte alongside Modern icons of 20th century printmaking from Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Pablo Picasso and David Hockney. Exhibiting a variety of media, artists and fundamental stages of Modern and Contemporary art history this sale explores Editions in their many shapes and forms. Taking place at Phillips London on 24 January, the sale will feature 290 lots and is expected to realise in excess of £2,000,000.

Leading the sale is a set of 10 Donald Judd woodcuts. Printed in ultramarine, Untitled (illustrated above) comes to this sale from a Private London Collection. Judd first began to experiment with woodcuts in 1953 when he turned to his father, experienced wood worker Roy Judd, for assistance. Throughout the 1960s Judd explored methods by which abstract shapes and straight lines could be cut across the grain to create the sharp, clean lines demonstrated in this work.

Phillips 10th Anniversary Editions Sale Features Robert Indiana Set

April 6, 2018 by Marion Maneker

Robert Indiana, NUMBERS ONE through ZERO, 1978-2003 ($700k – $1m)

Phillips is holding its 10th Anniversary Editions sale on April 24th and celebrating the growth of the prints and multiples market with a 400-lot sale populated by names like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Brice Marden, Peter Doig, David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Sam Gilliam, Keith Haring, Joseph Beuys, and Vija Celmins.

According to Phillips, “the Editions team was founded at Phillips in 2008 by Cary Leibowitz and Kelly Troester, who both remain at the helm today.”

“In the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth in the market for prints and multiples,” said Cary Leibowitz and Kelly Troester, Worldwide Co-Heads of Editions. “Phillips has prided itself on offering fine art original editions, which are many times the direct result of collaboration between artists and their printmakers, to both aspiring collectors and connoisseurs of 20th Century and Contemporary Art. Our 10-year anniversary auction continues this tradition, offering over 400 lots that span nearly 90 years of this important collecting category.”

  • a wide selection of more than 15 examples of Pablo Picasso’s masterful work in ceramic earthenware from the famous Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, France. This group of Picasso’s ceramic works is crowned by 1953’s massive and monumental Gros oiseau corrida (Large Corrida Bird), an edition of only 25 that towers above 30 inches tall ($80-120k).
  • Visage larvé (Hidden Face), 1956-57 ($60-80k) is a rare example of Picasso’s work in sterling silver, which was inspired by the artist’s remark to the legendary art historian Douglas Cooper about how thrilling it would be to see his ceramic works rendered in the precious metal.
  • a complete set of Robert Indiana’s NUMBERS ONE through ZERO , 1978-2003 ($700k-1m). In a small edition of 8, this work is among the most coveted sculptural multiples, with each piece in this version standing 18 inches tall.
  • From 1965’s iconic 11 Pop Artists Volume II portfolio, Reverie, 1965, ($60-90k) by Roy Lichtenstein  is one of the finest trophies of Post-War printmaking
  • Lichtenstein’s Reflections on Crash, 1996, Tel Aviv Museum Print, 1989 ($100-150k)
  • Lichtenstein’s Sunshine Through the Clouds, 1985, amongst a number of others.
  • Andy Warhol’s Marilyn of 1967 ($70-100k)
  • Helen Frankenthaler’s Tale of Genji III, 1998, ($40-60k) is the artist’s late-period, printmaking masterpiece — in which she made use of over 18 woodcut blocks and 53 colors — that recalls her most renowned paintings on canvas.
  • The auction will also include works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Kara Walker, Jo Baer, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Peyton, Susan Rothenberg and Cindy Sherman.
  • a collection of works by Brice Marden. Brice Marden began printmaking in the early 1960s and has been a force upon the medium ever since. Phillips is delighted to offer over 20 lots from the artist, including both individual works and large sets, which span across four decades of Marden’s long and introspective career. Dating from his time as a student at Yale, to sailing trips through the Greek Isles during the 1970s, and finally to more recent times with his study of Eastern calligraphy, these works trace the artist’s development into a contemporary master. Etchings to Rexroth, 1986, ($70-100k) a prolific portfolio of etchings, illustrates some of Brice Marden’s most profound artistic triumphs and provides a rare and comprehensive look at its artist’s pensive, inner landscape. In the exhibition leading up to the sale, Marden’s works will be exhibited alongside the work of Josef Albers ($40-60k), presenting an interesting dichotomy, as it was Albers’ influential color theory that Brice Marden rebelled against.
  • Peter Doig’s painterly set of twelve etchings from 2013 ($80-120k) encapsulates many of the various developments seen across the artist’s fruitful career.
  • David Hockney’s Moving Focus ($30-50k) image similarly deploys tropes that anchored the British artist’s decades-long art making. Reminiscent of Hockney’s early portraits, Walking Past Two Chairs, 1984-86 combines the informality of his Friends series together with the studies of perspective and landscape that are hallmark of his later career.

Deborah Ripley to be Director of Bonhams Print & Multiple Dept

September 13, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Bonhams announces that Deborah Ripley will lead their Prints and Multiples department:

Based in New York, Deborah will work with her team which includes Judith Eurich in San Francisco, Morisa Rosenberg in Los Angeles, and Shawna Brickley in New York.

With over 30 years experience, Deborah Ripley is a nationally recognized print expert. She has written and lectured about print collecting for numerous publications, including Forbes online, Print Collector’s Newsletter, Artnet Magazine, and Art on Paper. She has conducted classes in print appraisals for the New School in New York City, and is a frequent lecturer on various topics related to contemporary art. Starting at Pace Prints in the 1980’s, she later worked in the Print Department at Christie’s and then as the Director of Landfall Press in New York.

Print Sales Rise as Aggregators Spread Buyers Across Auction Venues

May 8, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Scott Reyburn’s New York Times column focuses on the online market keying off Hiscox’s recent report. But there may be something else going on here that’s a product of increased online access but not necessarily a measure of it. That is, there seems to be a surge taking place in the print and multiple market.

Picasso’s ceramics are everywhere and selling out everywhere they sell. The growth of low-margin feeder services like Invaluable, eBay and Artsy seems to be contributing to access and exposure. Sotheby’s and Phillips saw strong print sales last month but not a dramatic rise in overall volume beyond the previous range of sale totals.

Here’s Reyburn on the phenomena:Continue Reading

Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples = $10.8m

May 1, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples sale was dominated by Warhol, Picasso and Japser Johns with the top ten lots either works or portfolios of the three artists. Given the torpor in the Warhol market, the prints show the durability of the artists images. But the trend has some worrying indications that the overall art market remains too concentrated in a few “investible” names. The sale totaled $10.8m with 84% of the lots sold.

  • The top lot of the sale was Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) (F. & S. II.23-31) from the collection of Margot Hahn, which fetched $1,092,500.
  • a rare complete portfolio of 0-9 (ULAE 19) by Jasper Johns from the Collection of Robert & Jane Rosenblum achieved a record price for a suite of lithographs by the artist. Chased by two bidders on the telephone and one in the room, the 1960-1963 lithographs from early in his career – of which four were specially replaced by Johns when they were stolen from the Rosenblum’s home – sold for a final price of $972,500, in excess of their $800,000 high estimate.
  • Nearly 60 lots of ceramics by Pablo Picasso, with over 50 lots from the Estate of Wagner Tielens, were 94.8% sold by lot, the group achieved a total of $1.7 million, in line with its high estimate.
  • The top Picasso ceramic was Grand Vase aux Femmes Voilées (A.R. 116), a large terre de faïence vase measuring 26 inches that sold for $444,500.
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