A Star-Studded Roster of Artists Headline the (RED) Auction

A Star-Studded Roster of Artists Headline the (RED) Auction

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  Jenny Saville, Susanna. Estimate $450,000–550,000

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  Ai Weiwei, Hanging Man in Porcelain. Estimate $90,000–120,000

  Hanging Man in Porcelain represents several key aspects of Ai Weiwei’s work, including the use of finely-crafted woodwork and porcelain, as well conceptual references to Marcel Duchamp. This particular piece relates to Ai Weiwei’s 1985 portrait of Duchamp, which was crafted out of a bent wire hanger. In this work from 2009, Ai Weiwei alludes to his 1985 portrait of Duchamp, however this time the hanger is crafted in silver and glazed on top of porcelain.
  

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  Yinka Shonibare, Red Lantern Kid. Estimate $100,000–150,000

  The child figure is dressed in the artist’s signature Dutch wax fabric, representing the hope and optimism for future generations. The lantern symbolises hope in the wake of advancing medical research. The featured names on the globe are prominent activists, performers or supporters who fought for the rights of AIDS sufferers at the height of the epidemic in the 1980s.
  

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  Christo, Wrapped Volkswagen (Project For 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon). Estimate $10,000–15,000

  Christo’s Wrapped Objects explore the transformative effect fabric and tactile surfaces have when wrapped around familiar objects. The concealment caused by the fabric challenges the viewer to reappraise the objects beneath and the space in which it exists. For those Wrapped Objects that are packaged in translucent polyethylene, little is left to the imagination, but the material gives the everyday objects an additional sculptural quality.
  

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  Richard Diebenkorn, Blue Surround. Estimate $100,000–150,000

  Richard Diebenkorn was one of the key figures in a transformation that took place in the 1950s: the rise of California Art to rival New York Abstract Expressionism. Diebenkorn developed a unique form of Northern California realism, now referred to as the Bay Area Figurative School. But it was in the late 1960s until his death in 1993 that he worked in a uniquely expressed form inspired by the light-filled landscape of Southern California; The Ocean Park series of paintings and prints.
  

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  Jeff Koons, Girl with Dolphin and Monkey. Estimate $35,000–45,000

  Jeff Koons directed and shot a seven-image portfolio of the actress Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page for The New York Times in the March 12, 2006 issue. Referencing this portfolio, Girl with Dolphin and Monkey, 2014, is a limited-edition print by Jeff Koons that features Gretchen Mol, the star of The Notorious Bettie Page, on the inflatable dolphin holding the inflatable toy monkey became a reoccurring motif within Koons’s Hulk Elvis and Antiquity series.
  

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  Marc Quinn, (RED) Eclipse. Estimate $150,000–200,000

  Quinn's circular Anthropocene paintings of eclipses relate to his earlier series of iris paintings (We Share Our Chemistry With the Stars) and similarly use forms found within nature. These works derive their compositions from scientific photographs of various total and partial solar eclipses around the world. They are also taken at different times throughout the past 100 years, the earliest being from 1907. By using such a diverse timescale the artist shows the seeming immutability of cosmic cycles in comparison to the finite nature of human time.
  

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  Olafur Eliasson, Love Sphere. Estimate $70,000–90,000

  Love Sphere’s numerous irregular pentagonal panes of silvered hand-blown glass, attached to a steel framework, form the outer shell of a dynamic polyhedron. Glimpses of the polyhedron’s vivid red interior can be seen through intermittent panes of clear glass, as well as through the narrow gaps between the mirrored panes and the steel frame; the light that emerges casts the pattern formed by the work’s geometry onto the surroundings.
  

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  Tim Noble and Sue Webster, fuckingbeautiful (RED). Estimate $100,000–150,000

  The fusion of opposite approaches is central to the dynamic of Tim Noble and Sue Webster’s work. It is structured around the opposition of light and dark, object and shadow, trash and romance, high art and low, form and anti-form and other usually incompatible concepts.
  fuckingbeautiful (RED) is a unique neon artwork created by the artists for the (RED) Auction, their infamous slogan contorted into the shape of a red neon heart. Inspired by the glittering lights of Las Vegas and the extravagant illuminations of Piccadilly Circus, their light works send out messages of love and hate.
  

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  Sir David Adjaye, Washington Skeleton™ (RED) Side Chair [Set of Four]. Estimate $20,000–30,000

  “The Washington Collection is an investigation into form, materials, balance and weight. I wanted to create furniture that is both playful and beautiful – appearing light yet also expressing monumentality.”
  –David Adjaye
  

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  Theaster Gates, A Flag for the Least of Them. Estimate $450,000–500,000

  A Flag For The Least of Them is part of Theaster Gates Civil Rights Tapestries series, which are made from colorful strips of decommissioned fire hose, that are tonally arranged and stitched together. Reflecting Gates's interest in the poetics of re-purposed and salvaged materials, the series was originally influenced by a darker chapter in American history and the events of the 1963 riots in Birmingham, Alabama when water cannons were used against civil rights demonstrators. A number of works from this series were shown in Gates's 2012 exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, entitled My Labor Is My Protest.
  

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    Type: auction

    Category: Past Auction

    Contemporary Curated

    6 March 2020 | 10:00 AM EST | New York

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    Type: story

    Category: Contemporary Art

    Theaster Gates Brings a Care for Collecting to the Walker Art Center
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    Category: Lot

    Theaster Gates

    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD

    (RED) AUCTION

    5 December 2018 | 7:00 PM EST | Miami

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    Theaster Gates

    French Braid, 2012

    Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 USD

    Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 USD

    Contemporary Art Online

    28 September 2018 | 4:00 PM GMT

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    281

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    Theaster Gates

    Whyte Painting 

    Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD

    Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD

    Contemporary Curated

    3 March 2016 | 10:00 AM EST | New York

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    314

    Type: lot

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    Theaster Gates

    Stars over Harlem

    Estimate: 250,000 – 350,000 USD

    Contemporary Art Day Auction

    17 May 2018 | 10:00 AM EDT | New York

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    Theaster Gates

    Quiet Riot with Tar

    Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

    Contemporary Art Day

    29 June 2016 | 10:00 AM BST | London

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    Theaster Gates

    Civil Tapestries X

    Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 GBP

    L13025

    18 October 2013 | 10:30 AM BST | London

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    Theaster Gates

    Black Box II

    Estimate: 22,000 – 28,000 GBP

    L13025

    18 October 2013 | 10:30 AM BST | London

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    Theaster Gates

    Civil Tapestries VI

    Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 USD

    Contemporary Art

    25 September 2013 | 10:00 AM EDT | New York

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