2011
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See also : Koons Yayoi Kusama Banksy White diamond
See also : Koons Yayoi Kusama Banksy White diamond
2011 White Diamond
2013 SOLD for HK$ 240 MHK$ by Sotheby's
The diamond sold by Sotheby's on October 7, 2013 is D Type and Flawless, and weighs 118.28 carats. It fetched HK $ 240M.
It is oval cut from a 299 carat rough stone discovered in 2011 in a deep mine of southern Africa whose detailed location is not revealed. Its polishing and symmetry are considered excellent by the gemological laboratories.
It is oval cut from a 299 carat rough stone discovered in 2011 in a deep mine of southern Africa whose detailed location is not revealed. Its polishing and symmetry are considered excellent by the gemological laboratories.
2011 Popeye by Koons
2014 SOLD for $ 28M by Sotheby's
The series of the Celebrations brought to the art of Koons a universal language and a flawless and inimitable technique, with its pure colors in transparent coating onto a perfectly polished stainless steel. A come back to American kitsch was tempting. Koons highlighted Popeye.
This is a clever choice. The image of Popeye, created in 1929, is recognized worldwide. This character has a gruff and whimsical behavior that appeals to Americans. He is never completely caught by his stupidity offset by a large dose of sentimentality.
Popeye would not exist without his spinach box, which provides him with oversized forearms and an invincible strength. Koons notes that spinach transforms this character same as art transforms the reality of life. Popeye is the precursor of these superhuman heroes led by Superman who managed to brighten the Americans at the height of the Great Depression.
His name is an allusion to his pirate eye. Meanwhile, the pop art has gone. Koons offers a sign of connivence to pop art that is indeed a tribute to his predecessors Warhol, Lichtenstein and Mel Ramos.
As for the Celebrations, the figure has two dates, from design to completion. This 2 m high Popeye, dated 2009-2011, was edited in four units plus one artist's proof.
One of them was sold for $ 28M by Sotheby's on May 14, 2014. Please watch the video prepared by the auction house.
This is a clever choice. The image of Popeye, created in 1929, is recognized worldwide. This character has a gruff and whimsical behavior that appeals to Americans. He is never completely caught by his stupidity offset by a large dose of sentimentality.
Popeye would not exist without his spinach box, which provides him with oversized forearms and an invincible strength. Koons notes that spinach transforms this character same as art transforms the reality of life. Popeye is the precursor of these superhuman heroes led by Superman who managed to brighten the Americans at the height of the Great Depression.
His name is an allusion to his pirate eye. Meanwhile, the pop art has gone. Koons offers a sign of connivence to pop art that is indeed a tribute to his predecessors Warhol, Lichtenstein and Mel Ramos.
As for the Celebrations, the figure has two dates, from design to completion. This 2 m high Popeye, dated 2009-2011, was edited in four units plus one artist's proof.
One of them was sold for $ 28M by Sotheby's on May 14, 2014. Please watch the video prepared by the auction house.
2010-2011 Queen Anne's Lace by Hockney
2022 SOLD for $ 18.7M by Christie's
In his most recent landscapes, David Hockney uses to refer to his predecessors including Constable. He nevertheless manages to deeply amend that tradition. He combines a monumental size with vibrant colors for a joyous effect and plays with the outlines and the fragmentation of the canvases to supersede perspective by emotion.
Queen Anne's Lace near Kilham is an oil on single rectangular canvas 170 x 260 cm dated 2010-2011 by the artist. It displays a field wildly populated by a carpet of tall carrot umbels. A frieze of three trees narrows the sky above the horizon and is cut off by the upper edge of the canvas.
This humble theme in his beloved East Yorkshire countryside may remind Monet's flowerbeds in Argenteuil and meadows with poppies near Giverny, in patterns which recede to pointillism in the distance.
Queen Anne's Lace was sold for $ 18.7M from a lower estimate of $ 8M by Christie's on November 9, 2022, lot 50.
In 2021 at the height of the covid lockdown, Spring cannot be cancelled is a series of conversations by Hockney, then residing in Normandie, with Martin Gayford. The octogenarian artist manages to forward his enthusiasm for the joyous mood of nature.
Queen Anne's Lace near Kilham is an oil on single rectangular canvas 170 x 260 cm dated 2010-2011 by the artist. It displays a field wildly populated by a carpet of tall carrot umbels. A frieze of three trees narrows the sky above the horizon and is cut off by the upper edge of the canvas.
This humble theme in his beloved East Yorkshire countryside may remind Monet's flowerbeds in Argenteuil and meadows with poppies near Giverny, in patterns which recede to pointillism in the distance.
Queen Anne's Lace was sold for $ 18.7M from a lower estimate of $ 8M by Christie's on November 9, 2022, lot 50.
In 2021 at the height of the covid lockdown, Spring cannot be cancelled is a series of conversations by Hockney, then residing in Normandie, with Martin Gayford. The octogenarian artist manages to forward his enthusiasm for the joyous mood of nature.
2011 Set of Landscapes by Cui Ruzhuo
2015 SOLD for HK$ 134M by Poly
A set of four landscapes, ink and color on paper 295 x 142 cm each executed in 2013 by Cui Ruzhuo, was sold for HK $ 134M by Poly on October 5, 2015, lot 2309.
2011 Face by GROTJAHN
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S III Released to France
2017 SOLD for $ 16.8M by Christie's
S III Released to France, oil on cardboard mounted on linen 257 x 187 cm painted in 2011, 43.14 in the nomenclature of Mark Grotjahn, was sold for $ 16.8M from a lower estimate of $ 13M by Christie's on May 17, 2017, lot 36 B.
A savage impasto of dissonant color is expressing movement and force. It is cancelling some ellipses that may constitute elements of a disrupted face inspired from Picasso's cubism.
A savage impasto of dissonant color is expressing movement and force. It is cancelling some ellipses that may constitute elements of a disrupted face inspired from Picasso's cubism.
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Into and Behind the Green Eyes of the Tiger Monkey
2015 SOLD for $ 6.5M by Sotheby's
Into and Behind the Green Eyes of the Tiger Monkey, oil on cardboard mounted on canvas 122 x 94 cm executed in 2011 by Grotjahn with the reference 43.18, was sold for $ 6.5M from a lower estimate of $ 2M by Sotheby's on May 12, 2015, lot 2.
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In and Out of the Darkness
2014 SOLD for $ 6M by Christie's
In and Out of the Darkness, oil on cardboard mounted on linen 224 x 122 cm executed by Grotjahn with the reference 43.01, was sold for $ 6M from a lower estimate of $ 3.5M by Christie's on May 12, 2014, lot 30.
Repeated almond shaped eyes are dostributed around a vertical line that may be a nose.
Repeated almond shaped eyes are dostributed around a vertical line that may be a nose.
2011 Forgive us our Trespassing by Banksy
2020 SOLD for HK$ 64M by Sotheby's
A street artist could indeed be blamed for tagging without a previous authorization. In a derision against his own practice, Banksy tagged in 2010 a wall in Salt Lake City with the image of a kneeling boy praying beside his paint pot and brush below the dripping wet large inscription FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSING. Posters were soon printed with the boy below a golden halo of dripping paint.
In 2011 in Los Angeles, Banksy prepares a collective work encouraging children to art creation. The monumental frame 655 x 420 cm is the figure of a medieval stained glass window in the dark as seen from inside a church. About 100 students fill the slits in bright colors with figures and graffiti.
In the forefront the kneeling boy is featured life size in a hooded coat, again with his painting equipment. The title is retained without inscription for that new artwork.
This LA acrylic, spray paint and marker pens on wooden panel in four parts was sold for HK $ 64M from a lower estimate of HK $ 16M by Sotheby's on October 6, 2020, lot 1133.
In 2011 in Los Angeles, Banksy prepares a collective work encouraging children to art creation. The monumental frame 655 x 420 cm is the figure of a medieval stained glass window in the dark as seen from inside a church. About 100 students fill the slits in bright colors with figures and graffiti.
In the forefront the kneeling boy is featured life size in a hooded coat, again with his painting equipment. The title is retained without inscription for that new artwork.
This LA acrylic, spray paint and marker pens on wooden panel in four parts was sold for HK $ 64M from a lower estimate of HK $ 16M by Sotheby's on October 6, 2020, lot 1133.
2011 Pumpkin by Kusama
2023 SOLD for HK$ 55M by Sotheby's
The A-Pumpkin reference BAGN-8 by Yayoi Kusama, acrylic in canvas 162 x 130 cm painted in 2011 in portrait format, was sold for HK $ 55M from a lower estimate of HK $ 40M by Sotheby's on April 5, 2023, lot 1129.
2011 The Tiger by Zeng Fanzhi
2013 SOLD for $ 5M by Christie's
Just before its 2011 sales in Hong Kong, Christie's devoted an exhibition titled "Being" to thirty very recent works by Zeng Fanzhi. That "Being" is the being that inhabits our planet. And Zeng, aged 47, has just changed his style and theme.
He is one of the top Chinese contemporary artists, best known for his portraits and scenes of ordinary characters who attract no empathy as they seem not to think about anything. The new momentum of conservationism by Zeng is indeed in the same logic : the Earth does not belong to these useless people, but to the plants and animals that inhabit it for so long.
At the request of Christie's, the artist himself has chosen one of his works to be auctioned on May 28 on the benefit of environmental organizations. He donated a superb figure of leopard, oil on canvas painted in 2010, 280 x 180 cm, lot 1046. It fetched HK $ 36M with no applied buyer's premium.
It is night. Flakes fall. The animal in the snow is on the lookout. It is right to be suspicious, because it is already joined by civilization. It is suddenly lit from below, as in the headlights of a car. The foreground is a pattern of leafless branches in the style of Zeng's 2006-2010 iconoclastic series This Land so rich in Beauty.
The tiger is another endangered species. A full front head of a threatening tiger is similarly lit behind a pattern of branches that prevents it to aggress the viewer. This oil on canvas 240 x 350 cm executed in 2011 was sold for $ 5M from a lower estimate of $ 1.5M by Christie's on May 13, 2013, lot 13, in a somehow disturbing 13-13-13.
He is one of the top Chinese contemporary artists, best known for his portraits and scenes of ordinary characters who attract no empathy as they seem not to think about anything. The new momentum of conservationism by Zeng is indeed in the same logic : the Earth does not belong to these useless people, but to the plants and animals that inhabit it for so long.
At the request of Christie's, the artist himself has chosen one of his works to be auctioned on May 28 on the benefit of environmental organizations. He donated a superb figure of leopard, oil on canvas painted in 2010, 280 x 180 cm, lot 1046. It fetched HK $ 36M with no applied buyer's premium.
It is night. Flakes fall. The animal in the snow is on the lookout. It is right to be suspicious, because it is already joined by civilization. It is suddenly lit from below, as in the headlights of a car. The foreground is a pattern of leafless branches in the style of Zeng's 2006-2010 iconoclastic series This Land so rich in Beauty.
The tiger is another endangered species. A full front head of a threatening tiger is similarly lit behind a pattern of branches that prevents it to aggress the viewer. This oil on canvas 240 x 350 cm executed in 2011 was sold for $ 5M from a lower estimate of $ 1.5M by Christie's on May 13, 2013, lot 13, in a somehow disturbing 13-13-13.
