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See also : Hockney Banksy Baseball Sport cards Modern sport cards Maps
See also : Hockney Banksy Baseball Sport cards Modern sport cards Maps
2009 HOCKNEY
1
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.
2
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 on November 9, 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 on November 9, 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.
The AFP video is shared in a tweet.
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.
The AFP video is shared in a tweet.
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 GHENIE
1
Duchamp's Funeral
2019 SOLD for £ 4.3M by Sotheby's
sold for £ 4.3M from a lower estimate of £ 2.5M by Sotheby's on March 5, 2019, lot 25.
2
The Collector 4
2017 SOLD for £ 2.65M by Christie's
sold for £ 2.05M by Phillips on October 6, 2017, lot 8.
sold for £ 2.65M by Christie's on March 6, 2019, lot 5.
sold for £ 2.65M by Christie's on March 6, 2019, lot 5.
2009 Trout Topps Superfractor
2020 SOLD for $ 3.94M by Goldin
The era of dull cards ended for Topps in 1993 when this publisher added a reflective layer to the front side of its trading cards. A specific card is now edited in several variants. Small series are serialized. The colored framing around the image provides the visual information of the production run of its variant. Bowman and Refractor are trademarks of Topps.
The cards were randomly distributed by the publisher in the original packaging. Their discovery is a game akin to the lottery. In events announced in advance by specialist companies, a client opens an old box that is still sealed. When one of them gets his hands on a holy grail, the video of the event is a good marketing incentive for the operator.
The most popular cards are those of the rookies. The most promising have the whole range of variants, including the Red Refractor in five copies. At the top of this hierarchy is the 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospect of Mike Trout, who will be the best baseball player of his generation.
On May 22, 2020, Goldin sold for $ 920K the 2009 Red Refractor 5/5 of Mike Trout, graded Gem Mint 9.5 by BGS with an autograph signature graded 10 by Beckett.
Can do better !
The Red Refractor, despite its limited edition, is not the top of the range. Here is the Superfractor. The player's photo is layered with a reflective pattern that provides a glitter. Several Superfractor variants of the same card can coexist but each piece is unique in its variant, and serialized 1/1.
On August 22, 2020, Goldin sold for $ 3.94M as lot 1 a Superfractor 1/1 of the rookie card of Mike Trout. It is graded Mint 9 by BGS with an autograph signature graded 10 by Beckett.
The cards were randomly distributed by the publisher in the original packaging. Their discovery is a game akin to the lottery. In events announced in advance by specialist companies, a client opens an old box that is still sealed. When one of them gets his hands on a holy grail, the video of the event is a good marketing incentive for the operator.
The most popular cards are those of the rookies. The most promising have the whole range of variants, including the Red Refractor in five copies. At the top of this hierarchy is the 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospect of Mike Trout, who will be the best baseball player of his generation.
On May 22, 2020, Goldin sold for $ 920K the 2009 Red Refractor 5/5 of Mike Trout, graded Gem Mint 9.5 by BGS with an autograph signature graded 10 by Beckett.
Can do better !
The Red Refractor, despite its limited edition, is not the top of the range. Here is the Superfractor. The player's photo is layered with a reflective pattern that provides a glitter. Several Superfractor variants of the same card can coexist but each piece is unique in its variant, and serialized 1/1.
On August 22, 2020, Goldin sold for $ 3.94M as lot 1 a Superfractor 1/1 of the rookie card of Mike Trout. It is graded Mint 9 by BGS with an autograph signature graded 10 by Beckett.
2009 Sonnerie Souveraine by Journe
2022 SOLD for CHF 3.05M by Christie's
François-Paul Journe released in 2006 his Sonnerie Souveraine model with both strikes, for which he received ten patents. Four units were built each year until 2018. The case was made in stainless steel for a better sound. The mechanism is using 582 components.
The development had lasted six years, with the amusing target that it could be used without failing by an eight year old child. The challenge was to create a low tension movement to activate the grand strike of the quarter hours in a wristwatch with a 24 hour autonomy without a loss in the accuracy nor in the chime. The petite sonnerie is the minute repeater.
A bespoke example dated Janvier 2009 on the case was sold for CHF 3.05M from a lower estimate of CHF 2.4M by Christie's on November 6, 2022, lot 2111. The petrol blue color of its dial is a possibly unique technical feat requiring multiple applications of lacquer layers by hand plus the mirror polishing of each layer.
This example was built by F.P. Journe SA for a close friend whose name is engraved on the case back beside Julius Caesar's motto Ab Imo Pectore and the ambitious technical aphorism Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. The FIA 7th Constructors’ Formula One World Champions logo also designates that first owner. This man, whose name is not disclosed in the catalogue for legal reasons, retired from operations a few months later to become the President of the FIA.
The development had lasted six years, with the amusing target that it could be used without failing by an eight year old child. The challenge was to create a low tension movement to activate the grand strike of the quarter hours in a wristwatch with a 24 hour autonomy without a loss in the accuracy nor in the chime. The petite sonnerie is the minute repeater.
A bespoke example dated Janvier 2009 on the case was sold for CHF 3.05M from a lower estimate of CHF 2.4M by Christie's on November 6, 2022, lot 2111. The petrol blue color of its dial is a possibly unique technical feat requiring multiple applications of lacquer layers by hand plus the mirror polishing of each layer.
This example was built by F.P. Journe SA for a close friend whose name is engraved on the case back beside Julius Caesar's motto Ab Imo Pectore and the ambitious technical aphorism Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. The FIA 7th Constructors’ Formula One World Champions logo also designates that first owner. This man, whose name is not disclosed in the catalogue for legal reasons, retired from operations a few months later to become the President of the FIA.
2009 The Simple Things by Murakami and Pharrell Williams
2019 SOLD for HK$ 21.7M by Christie's
Takashi Murakami is exploiting the consumer society while bringing to his art a typically Japanese style based on manga monsters. There is no limit in his approach to luxury. He collaborates since 2002 with Louis Vuitton, on an initiative by Marc Jacobs.
Murakami pays the closest attention to making his art instantly recognizable with recurring characters invented by him like Kaikai, Kiki or Mr Dob. He varies the techniques, and his objects span the whole range from microscopic to monumental.
Pharrell Williams is a musician and a producer. In 2003 he launched the BBC (Billionaire Boys Club) clothing brand in co-operation with Nigo. Nigo is also famous in contemporary art for his collaboration with KAWS.
The Simple Things is an installation by Murakami and Pharrell, exhibited at Art Basel in 2009 on the stand of the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. The steel and fiberglass painted sculpture 78 x 110 x 101 cm shows a Mr Dob with the mouth wide open and multicolored fangs, ready to swallow everything that is consumable. The back side includes a stylized self-portrait of the artist.
The inside of the mouth is arranged like a theater stage illuminated by fourteen spots, where are positioned seven models of objects chosen by Pharrell in his daily life. All except the cupcake have a famous brand. The sneaker is a direct advertisement for BBC. With a drink can, a baby lotion, a bottle of ketchup, a pack of chips and a box of condoms, this ambitious billionaire gives everyone a view onto the simplicity of his life.
The objects required about a year of work by the jeweler Jacob and Co. They are in white, yellow and pink gold inlaid with 26,000 precious stones : rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds.
The Simple Things was sold for HK $ 21.7M by Christie's on November 23, 2019, lot 58.
Murakami pays the closest attention to making his art instantly recognizable with recurring characters invented by him like Kaikai, Kiki or Mr Dob. He varies the techniques, and his objects span the whole range from microscopic to monumental.
Pharrell Williams is a musician and a producer. In 2003 he launched the BBC (Billionaire Boys Club) clothing brand in co-operation with Nigo. Nigo is also famous in contemporary art for his collaboration with KAWS.
The Simple Things is an installation by Murakami and Pharrell, exhibited at Art Basel in 2009 on the stand of the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. The steel and fiberglass painted sculpture 78 x 110 x 101 cm shows a Mr Dob with the mouth wide open and multicolored fangs, ready to swallow everything that is consumable. The back side includes a stylized self-portrait of the artist.
The inside of the mouth is arranged like a theater stage illuminated by fourteen spots, where are positioned seven models of objects chosen by Pharrell in his daily life. All except the cupcake have a famous brand. The sneaker is a direct advertisement for BBC. With a drink can, a baby lotion, a bottle of ketchup, a pack of chips and a box of condoms, this ambitious billionaire gives everyone a view onto the simplicity of his life.
The objects required about a year of work by the jeweler Jacob and Co. They are in white, yellow and pink gold inlaid with 26,000 precious stones : rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds.
The Simple Things was sold for HK $ 21.7M by Christie's on November 23, 2019, lot 58.
2009 Map of China by Ai Weiwei
2016 SOLD for $ 2.5M by Christie's
For the first time in its history, the continuity of the Chinese artistic tradition is severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution. Even at the worst time of the Opium Wars such an extreme situation had been avoided. The son of a poet persecuted by the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei chooses art and appropriation to express his political dissent.
A photographic self-portrait in triptych from 1995 shows Ai deliberately breaking a Han urn. A print 136 x 109 cm per element made in 2004 was sold for £ 760K by Sotheby's on February 10, 2016. The antique wares participate again in his political message when he paints them in bright colors that cancel their original features.
Ai is an architect. He makes tables that are impossible to use, either because the legs are not parallel or because the top is obstructed by an oblique beam. This phase in Ai's career predates his international fame obtained for his loud speaking participation in the Olympic Stadium in Beijing and in the relief operations after the Sichuan earthquake.
An example of a Map of China clearly demonstrates the similarity of inspiration of this series with his three leg tables. Realized in 2004 or shortly earlier, it has a 51 x 55 cm top over an extravagant pattern of 3.80 m high legs. This artwork was sold for HK $ 9M by Sotheby's on April 5, 2014.
Ai's Maps of China are made in fragments of ironwood also named tieli recovered in the ruins of temples destroyed by the Cultural Revolution. The elements are assembled by a traditional Chinese technique of nail-less carpentry as a jigsaw whose external border shapes the Chinese map. The size of the top and the height of the legs are variable.
Ai continued to produce pieces from that model with the same woods from the temples. The largest, realized in 2008, is 4 meter long and weighs 635 kg. A Map of China 124 x 100 x 104 cm made in 2009 was sold for $ 2.5M by Christie's on May 11, 2016, lot 441 removed from the online catalogue, and for £ 790K by Phillips on October 6, 2017, lot 20.
A photographic self-portrait in triptych from 1995 shows Ai deliberately breaking a Han urn. A print 136 x 109 cm per element made in 2004 was sold for £ 760K by Sotheby's on February 10, 2016. The antique wares participate again in his political message when he paints them in bright colors that cancel their original features.
Ai is an architect. He makes tables that are impossible to use, either because the legs are not parallel or because the top is obstructed by an oblique beam. This phase in Ai's career predates his international fame obtained for his loud speaking participation in the Olympic Stadium in Beijing and in the relief operations after the Sichuan earthquake.
An example of a Map of China clearly demonstrates the similarity of inspiration of this series with his three leg tables. Realized in 2004 or shortly earlier, it has a 51 x 55 cm top over an extravagant pattern of 3.80 m high legs. This artwork was sold for HK $ 9M by Sotheby's on April 5, 2014.
Ai's Maps of China are made in fragments of ironwood also named tieli recovered in the ruins of temples destroyed by the Cultural Revolution. The elements are assembled by a traditional Chinese technique of nail-less carpentry as a jigsaw whose external border shapes the Chinese map. The size of the top and the height of the legs are variable.
Ai continued to produce pieces from that model with the same woods from the temples. The largest, realized in 2008, is 4 meter long and weighs 635 kg. A Map of China 124 x 100 x 104 cm made in 2009 was sold for $ 2.5M by Christie's on May 11, 2016, lot 441 removed from the online catalogue, and for £ 790K by Phillips on October 6, 2017, lot 20.
