Bacon's 1975 'Self-Portrait', Saville's Spectacular 'Shadow Head' and Important Works by Oehlen, Basquiat, Hockney and Others

Bacon's 1975 'Self-Portrait', Saville's Spectacular 'Shadow Head' and Important Works by Oehlen, Basquiat, Hockney and Others

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  Jenny Saville, Shadow Head, 2007-2013.
  Estimate £3,000,000–5,000,000.

  At once deeply intimate and profoundly monumental, Jenny Saville’s portrait Shadow Head stands as testament to the British artist’s unrivalled painterly abilities.

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  Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1975.
  Estimate £15,000,000–20,000,000.

  A masterwork of self-interrogation, Francis Bacon’s 1975 Self-Portrait exhibits the ebullient self-regard and virtuoso confidence of an artist operating at the very height of his creative faculties.

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  Albert Oehlen, Selbstportrait mit Leeren Händen (Self-Portrait with Empty Hands), 1998.
  Estimate £4,000,000–6,000,000.

  Executed in 1998, Albert Oehlen’s Self-Portrait with Empty Hands is a monumental work of immense significance and extraordinary aesthetic impact.
  

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  Richard Prince, I’m Not Linda, 1992.
  Estimate £1,400,000–1,800,000.

  From Richard Prince’s celebrated monochrome Joke Paintings, I’m Not Linda fuses low-brow cartoon humour with high-minded aesthetics to produce a work of arresting conceptual impact.

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  Louise Bourgeois, Listening One, 1982.
  Estimate £1,500,000–2,000,000.

  Conceived in 1947 and cast in 1982, Louise Bourgeois’s bronze sculpture Listening One encapsulates the very essence of the artist’s seminal series of Personages.
  

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  Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1992.
  Estimate £3,000,000–5,000,000.

  With its cool humour and aesthetic allure, Christopher Wool’s brilliant enamel painting Untitled (1992) is the very quintessence of the artist’s most immediately recognisable and significant body of work.

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  Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1963.
  Estimate £1,800,000–2,500,000.

  With its slashed and scarlet surface, Lucio Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale, Attese potently combines the Italian artist’s most iconic aesthetic with the most coveted colour of his oeuvre.
  

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  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Big Snow, 1984.
  Estimate £3,500,000–4,500,000.

  Imbued with energy, charisma and dynamism, Big Snow pays homage to one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s sporting heroes, Jesse Owens, the African American athlete who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games.

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  Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 2005.
  Estimate £600,000–800,000.

  From an important body of work that Albert Oehlen made in the mid-2000s, Untitled is a robust and engaging painting that pairs a dazzling chromatic effect with a dense poetic concept.
  

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  Bridget Riley, Bright Shade, 1985.
  Estimate £600,000–800,000.

  Characterised by its rippling and hypnotic allure, Bridget Riley’s Bright Shade illuminates the artist’s ground-breaking investigations into the optical potential of colour.

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  David Hockney, What About the Caves, 1991.
  Estimate £1,200,000–1,800,000.

  A witty and engaging composition of whimsically abstracted forms, David Hockney’s What About the Caves is emblematic of the artist’s boundless curiosity and artistic scholarship.

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