2009
2009 HOCKNEY
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Winter Timber
2022 SOLD for $ 23.3M by Christie's
Moving permanently to Yorkshire in the early 2000s, David Hockney revisits his native county with a Fauviste eye. He looks at the geometric contrast between the leafless trees that are surviving winter and the trunks stacked on the ground for the timber industry.
Felled Trees, oil on canvas 122 x 152 cm painted in 2008, was sold for $ 10.8M by Christie's on May 11, 2023, lot 35A. The picture is focused on the foreground of bright stylized logs lying on a deep purple soil.
This painting in a single panel looks like a preparation to the monumental Winter timber, oil on canvas 274 x 610 cm overall in 15 parts painted in 2009 in a totally different angle of view but similar shapes and colors.
This piece is also a keen aesthetic analysis of a confrontation of horizontals, verticals and curves. The contrast is striking between the stacks of freshly felled timber along a road in soft curves and the upright trees and of a remaining trunk in the foreground.
Winter Timber was sold for $ 23.3M from a lower estimate of $ 10M by Christie's on November 9, 2022, lot 43.
Felled Trees, oil on canvas 122 x 152 cm painted in 2008, was sold for $ 10.8M by Christie's on May 11, 2023, lot 35A. The picture is focused on the foreground of bright stylized logs lying on a deep purple soil.
This painting in a single panel looks like a preparation to the monumental Winter timber, oil on canvas 274 x 610 cm overall in 15 parts painted in 2009 in a totally different angle of view but similar shapes and colors.
This piece is also a keen aesthetic analysis of a confrontation of horizontals, verticals and curves. The contrast is striking between the stacks of freshly felled timber along a road in soft curves and the upright trees and of a remaining trunk in the foreground.
Winter Timber was sold for $ 23.3M from a lower estimate of $ 10M by Christie's on November 9, 2022, lot 43.
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2009 More Woldgate Timber
2024 SOLD for £ 4.6M by Christie's
Another painting featuring the felled trees, a stump and the pathway in the woods going to a clearance of white sky is titled More Woldgate Timber and dated October 13th 2009.
This oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm was sold for £ 4.6M by Christie's on October 9, 2024, lot 30.
This oil on canvas 92 x 122 cm was sold for £ 4.6M by Christie's on October 9, 2024, lot 30.
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Early Blossom
2023 SOLD for $ 19.4M by Christie's
Back in 2005 in his beloved East Yorkshire, David Hockney observes the variation of light through the seasons. In a systematic approach throughout 2006, he executes nine views of Woldgate Woods each one consisting of two rows of three panels for an overall 183 x 366 cm. An autumn scenery was sold for $ 11.7M by Sotheby's on November 17, 2016, lot 43.
In the following years he maintains this interest in the seasons in series of individual views. Winter is characterized by the felled timber along the road, for which he enhances the colors in a Fauvist manner. In an immersive view 274 x 610 cm overall in 15 parts painted in 2009, the gently turning road provides the geometric anchor to the composition. This Winter Timber was sold for $ 23.3M by Christie's in 2022.
Also in 2009, the bright colors of spring are the subject of a pastoral scenery. A lane is gently waving with its parallel tracks from the foreground to the horizon. It provides the leading lines separating an open field from the shrubs. The single view point at eye level waives the usual challenging of the perspective by the artist.
This oil on single canvas 91 x 183 cm titled Early Blossom and located in Woldgate was sold for $ 19.4M from a lower estimate of $ 5M by Christie's on May 11, 2023, lot 37A.
In the following years he maintains this interest in the seasons in series of individual views. Winter is characterized by the felled timber along the road, for which he enhances the colors in a Fauvist manner. In an immersive view 274 x 610 cm overall in 15 parts painted in 2009, the gently turning road provides the geometric anchor to the composition. This Winter Timber was sold for $ 23.3M by Christie's in 2022.
Also in 2009, the bright colors of spring are the subject of a pastoral scenery. A lane is gently waving with its parallel tracks from the foreground to the horizon. It provides the leading lines separating an open field from the shrubs. The single view point at eye level waives the usual challenging of the perspective by the artist.
This oil on single canvas 91 x 183 cm titled Early Blossom and located in Woldgate was sold for $ 19.4M from a lower estimate of $ 5M by Christie's on May 11, 2023, lot 37A.
2009 Devolved Parliament by Banksy
2019 SOLD for £ 9.9M by Sotheby's
Banksy started his underground career in Bristol. Although his identity has not been revealed, he is certainly from that city or its suburbs.
In 2009 the Bristol Museum devotes a major exhibition to Banksy, including more than 100 works of which 78 are new. Devolved Parliament, 276 x 446 cm including the frame, is one of his largest oils on canvas.
The work stages a plenary session of the House of Commons without an empty bench. All MPs are chimpanzees. Their attitude is peaceful and serious, as under the weight of a responsibility that overcomes them. Reality goes beyond fiction : the real representatives of the people have recently been found noisy, screaming, brandishing placards, slamming their desks or threatening the speaker.
A decade later comes the Brexit. Devolved Parliament now belongs to a private owner. This work and its title have never been so close to the real news. It was lent to the Bristol Museum for several months of exhibition, from March to September 2019. Originally this period was to cover the date of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Devolved Parliament was sold for £ 9.9M from a lower estimate of £ 1.5M by Sotheby's on October 3, 2019, lot 28, four weeks before the new Brexit date.
Banksy, like George Orwell before him, has no confidence in politicians. His position vis-à-vis the Brexit is symbolized by a mural showing a worker on a ladder busy removing with a chisel a star of the European flag. This work made on the wall of a Dover building has been whitened, preventing Banksy from continuing his plan to show the collapse of the same flag after Brexit.
Banksy comments on the inexorable political chaos by stating "Laugh now, but one day no-one will be in charge", which paraphrases with an unprecedented pessimism one of the most recurrent formulas of his gangs of monkeys.
In 2009 the Bristol Museum devotes a major exhibition to Banksy, including more than 100 works of which 78 are new. Devolved Parliament, 276 x 446 cm including the frame, is one of his largest oils on canvas.
The work stages a plenary session of the House of Commons without an empty bench. All MPs are chimpanzees. Their attitude is peaceful and serious, as under the weight of a responsibility that overcomes them. Reality goes beyond fiction : the real representatives of the people have recently been found noisy, screaming, brandishing placards, slamming their desks or threatening the speaker.
A decade later comes the Brexit. Devolved Parliament now belongs to a private owner. This work and its title have never been so close to the real news. It was lent to the Bristol Museum for several months of exhibition, from March to September 2019. Originally this period was to cover the date of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Devolved Parliament was sold for £ 9.9M from a lower estimate of £ 1.5M by Sotheby's on October 3, 2019, lot 28, four weeks before the new Brexit date.
Banksy, like George Orwell before him, has no confidence in politicians. His position vis-à-vis the Brexit is symbolized by a mural showing a worker on a ladder busy removing with a chisel a star of the European flag. This work made on the wall of a Dover building has been whitened, preventing Banksy from continuing his plan to show the collapse of the same flag after Brexit.
Banksy comments on the inexorable political chaos by stating "Laugh now, but one day no-one will be in charge", which paraphrases with an unprecedented pessimism one of the most recurrent formulas of his gangs of monkeys.
2009 Abstraktes Bild by Richter
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910
2019 SOLD for £ 6.9M by Sotheby's
The 910-1 to 910-7 series of Abstraktes Bild was painted in 2009 by Gerhard Richter. The creation of 910-1 was the subject of a documentary film in which the artist demonstrated his squeegee process and its part of guided chance.
The 910-2, oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm, was sold for £ 6.9M by Sotheby's on March 5, 2019, lot 21. It is made of innumerable sunset hues in dazzling yellow with fields of radiant orange and darker aubergine.
The 910-3, 84 x 84 cm, was sold for $ 3.63M by Christie's on May 14, 2021, lot 113. It is painted in oil on aluminum for a glowing chromatic intensity dominated by a golden yellow interspersed by orange and white. Strokes of aquamarine are anchoring a contradictory oasis amidst that sunny desert.
The 910-2, oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm, was sold for £ 6.9M by Sotheby's on March 5, 2019, lot 21. It is made of innumerable sunset hues in dazzling yellow with fields of radiant orange and darker aubergine.
The 910-3, 84 x 84 cm, was sold for $ 3.63M by Christie's on May 14, 2021, lot 113. It is painted in oil on aluminum for a glowing chromatic intensity dominated by a golden yellow interspersed by orange and white. Strokes of aquamarine are anchoring a contradictory oasis amidst that sunny desert.
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911
2025 SOLD for $ 8.5M by Christie's
Abstraktes Bild 911 painted in 2009 by Richter is a series of five oil on canvas in various formats. From far away they look like a monochrome white but a closer inspection offers the palimpsest of the inner layers of soft hues including greens, reds, blues, pinks and mauves.
Two of them are panoramic formats 200 x 300 cm. 911-3 was sold for $ 8.5M from a lower estimate of $ 7M by Christie's on May 12, 2025, lot 16A.
Two of them are panoramic formats 200 x 300 cm. 911-3 was sold for $ 8.5M from a lower estimate of $ 7M by Christie's on May 12, 2025, lot 16A.
2009 Untitled (Mountain) by Stingel
2018 SOLD for £ 4.7M by Sotheby's
Rudolf Stingel knows that all art is autobiographical. He reuses four photographs of himself by Sam Samore to make giant self-portraits in oil on canvas, in an attitude without complacency. Untitled (after Sam) painted in 2006, 335 x 457 cm, was sold for $ 10.6M by Christie's on May 17, 2017.
Pictorial art had managed to get freed from photographic realism. In 1963 Gerhard Richter took the opposite direction by using as his models some poor and damaged photos that provide a bridge of a strong social significance between banality and art. After his self-portraits Stingel also retrieves the photographic banality but in a less impersonal sense.
He was born in Merano in the Tyrolean Alps on the Italian side and shares his life between this town and New York City. He can of course observe the panorama but his childhood impression has vanished. He re-interprets it by recovering old photographs which he enlarges excessively to reveal all the defects from origin and conservation. He then copies them on canvas by scrupulously respecting the stains, creases, scratches and loss of density.
With these banal photos whose original author cannot be known, Stingel reveals to the visitor a fake corner of his world, without character and without foreground, and which is not even directly related to his memory. In the following of his career he will further blur his relationship with the collective and the anonymous with his graffiti plates.
On March 7, 2018, Sotheby's sold for £ 4.7M an oil on canvas painted in 2009 on the theme of the re-photographed Tyrolean mountains, lot 19. With its 335 x 460 cm size this outdated view could be confronted with Andreas Gursky's hyper-sharp photographs. Please watch the 'first look' video shared by Sotheby's.
Pictorial art had managed to get freed from photographic realism. In 1963 Gerhard Richter took the opposite direction by using as his models some poor and damaged photos that provide a bridge of a strong social significance between banality and art. After his self-portraits Stingel also retrieves the photographic banality but in a less impersonal sense.
He was born in Merano in the Tyrolean Alps on the Italian side and shares his life between this town and New York City. He can of course observe the panorama but his childhood impression has vanished. He re-interprets it by recovering old photographs which he enlarges excessively to reveal all the defects from origin and conservation. He then copies them on canvas by scrupulously respecting the stains, creases, scratches and loss of density.
With these banal photos whose original author cannot be known, Stingel reveals to the visitor a fake corner of his world, without character and without foreground, and which is not even directly related to his memory. In the following of his career he will further blur his relationship with the collective and the anonymous with his graffiti plates.
On March 7, 2018, Sotheby's sold for £ 4.7M an oil on canvas painted in 2009 on the theme of the re-photographed Tyrolean mountains, lot 19. With its 335 x 460 cm size this outdated view could be confronted with Andreas Gursky's hyper-sharp photographs. Please watch the 'first look' video shared by Sotheby's.
2009 Duchamp's Funeral by Ghenie
2019 SOLD for £ 4.3M by Sotheby's
Adrian Ghenie is disturbed by the Dadaist statement by Marcel Duchamp that painting is dead, supported by the latter's invention of the anti-art ready-made.
In a revenge, a 2009 painting titled Dada is Dead features a wolf standing on its four legs in the corner of a dark chamber decorated with paintings on the wall. In the same year he conceives a portrait of Duchamp incongruously seated in a kitchen.
Also in 2009, another amalgamation features Duchamp's Funeral through a series of two similar paintings 200 x 300 cm each, assessing that painting survived Dada.
In an apartment furnished with Ghenie's studio chair, a man with the sharp face lines of Duchamp is lying in state on a coffin covered with Ghenie's Turkish rug coming from his grandmother.
Duchamp's Funeral I was sold for £ 4.3M from a lower estimate of £ 2.5M by Sotheby's on March 5, 2019, lot 25.
In 2010 Ghenie creates an installation titled the Dada room, inspired from the 1920 Dada Fair in Berlin.
In a revenge, a 2009 painting titled Dada is Dead features a wolf standing on its four legs in the corner of a dark chamber decorated with paintings on the wall. In the same year he conceives a portrait of Duchamp incongruously seated in a kitchen.
Also in 2009, another amalgamation features Duchamp's Funeral through a series of two similar paintings 200 x 300 cm each, assessing that painting survived Dada.
In an apartment furnished with Ghenie's studio chair, a man with the sharp face lines of Duchamp is lying in state on a coffin covered with Ghenie's Turkish rug coming from his grandmother.
Duchamp's Funeral I was sold for £ 4.3M from a lower estimate of £ 2.5M by Sotheby's on March 5, 2019, lot 25.
In 2010 Ghenie creates an installation titled the Dada room, inspired from the 1920 Dada Fair in Berlin.
2009 Très Grand Ours by Lalanne (posthumous)
2024 SOLD for $ 6.1M by Christie's
François-Xavier's bestiary has no limit in the last phase of his life. He populates with many beasts the workshop home which he shares with Claude in Ury at the south border of the forêt de Fontainebleau. Daughters Dorothée and Marie Lalanne are both supplied with an extensive collection, whether or not with a utilitarian application.
Très Grand Ours is a monumental bear 315 cm high straight standing on its hind legs, by François-Xavier Lalanne.
A patinated bronze number 6/8 from a posthumous cast executed in 2009 by Fonderie Bocquel was sold for $ 6.1M from a lower estimate of $ 2M by Christie's on October 10, 2024, lot 20 in the sale of the collection of Dorothée Lalanne.
From the collection of Marie Lalanne, the number 8/8 of La Grande Ourse, 210 cm tall patinated bronze from 2007, was sold for $ 3.66M by Christie's on December 7, 2022, lot 79. The title is of course a pun between the bear and its constellation.
Très Grand Ours is a monumental bear 315 cm high straight standing on its hind legs, by François-Xavier Lalanne.
A patinated bronze number 6/8 from a posthumous cast executed in 2009 by Fonderie Bocquel was sold for $ 6.1M from a lower estimate of $ 2M by Christie's on October 10, 2024, lot 20 in the sale of the collection of Dorothée Lalanne.
From the collection of Marie Lalanne, the number 8/8 of La Grande Ourse, 210 cm tall patinated bronze from 2007, was sold for $ 3.66M by Christie's on December 7, 2022, lot 79. The title is of course a pun between the bear and its constellation.
2009 Miroir Structure Végétale by Claude Lalanne
2023 SOLD for € 4.4M by Sotheby's
François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne were furnishing the Parisian apartments of Yves Saint-Laurent in a variety of modernist styles, starting with the bar ordered in 1964 to François-Xavier.
The mirrored salon de musique inspired from Nymphenburg was commissioned to Claude in 1974 and completed by her in 1985 in her Structure Végétale style made of branches and leaves. This set of 15 miroirs aux branchages was sold for € 1.86M by Christie's on February 23, 2009, lot 220 in the sale of the Saint-Laurent - Bergé collection.
Their co-operation continued. A mirror 250 x 150 cm made by Claude in 1999 for Saint-Laurent's residence in Tangiers was sold for € 910K from the deceased estate of Pierre Bergé by the auction house Pierre Bergé et Associés on October 29, 2018, lot 92.
Claude operated that product line in unique pieces and replicas, some of them with candlesticks. A miroir aux branchages 280 x 170 cm made in 1993 was sold for € 1.8M by Christie's on November 20, 2017, lot 65. A unique replica of the miroir de Tanger made in 2003 in smaller size in 2003 was sold for € 920K by Sotheby's on November 23, 2021, lot 30.
A miroir à parcloses 250 x 230 cm executed in 2009 in patinated bronze and galvanized copper as a 1/1 by Claude Lalanne for the Karpidas collection in Hydra was sold for € 4.4M from a lower estimate of € 380K by Sotheby's on October 31, 2023, lot 6.
The Structure Végétale was also applied to chandeliers. An example 130 cm in diameter made in 2009 with 16 candlesticks was sold for € 2.2M by Christie's on May 25, 2022, lot 158.
The mirrored salon de musique inspired from Nymphenburg was commissioned to Claude in 1974 and completed by her in 1985 in her Structure Végétale style made of branches and leaves. This set of 15 miroirs aux branchages was sold for € 1.86M by Christie's on February 23, 2009, lot 220 in the sale of the Saint-Laurent - Bergé collection.
Their co-operation continued. A mirror 250 x 150 cm made by Claude in 1999 for Saint-Laurent's residence in Tangiers was sold for € 910K from the deceased estate of Pierre Bergé by the auction house Pierre Bergé et Associés on October 29, 2018, lot 92.
Claude operated that product line in unique pieces and replicas, some of them with candlesticks. A miroir aux branchages 280 x 170 cm made in 1993 was sold for € 1.8M by Christie's on November 20, 2017, lot 65. A unique replica of the miroir de Tanger made in 2003 in smaller size in 2003 was sold for € 920K by Sotheby's on November 23, 2021, lot 30.
A miroir à parcloses 250 x 230 cm executed in 2009 in patinated bronze and galvanized copper as a 1/1 by Claude Lalanne for the Karpidas collection in Hydra was sold for € 4.4M from a lower estimate of € 380K by Sotheby's on October 31, 2023, lot 6.
The Structure Végétale was also applied to chandeliers. An example 130 cm in diameter made in 2009 with 16 candlesticks was sold for € 2.2M by Christie's on May 25, 2022, lot 158.
