Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Masters on View in Hong Kong

Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant), 1932
Estimate upon request

Monumental in scale and richly painted, this remarkably tender and intimate portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted in 1932, known as Pablo Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Claude Monet, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral, 1888
Estimate £6,500,000–8,500,000 / HK$69,160,000–90,440,000

Monet’s dazzling view of the south coast of France, La Méditerranée par vent de mistral is one of his most accomplished and brilliantly hued compositions of the 1880s.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Alberto Giacometti, Le chat, cast in 1955

With its body in perfect alignment, Alberto Giacometti's Le Chat is one of the most recognisable compositions of his post-war production, a period during which he created some of the most remarkable sculpture of the twentieth century.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Pablo Picasso, Le peintre et son modèle, 1964
Estimate £7,500,000–9,500,000 / HK$ 79,800,000–101,080,000

Painted in 1964, Le peintre et son modèle is a powerful example of the artist’s highly expressive work on a magnificent scale, on the subject that dominated his late work.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Pablo Picasso, Femme assise au chapeau, 1939
Estimate £4,000,000–6,000,000 / HK$42,560,000–63,840,000

Dating from March 1939 – a tumultuous period in Europe as well as in Picasso’s private life - Femme assise au chapeau combines features of both of his muses from this time: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Diego, 1957
Estimate £2,500,000–3,500,000 / HK$26,600,000–37,240,000

A portrait of the artist’s brother and primary model, Diego, this sculpture’s extraordinarily radical and expressive form is typical of Giacometti’s celebrated mature style.

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
19 June | London

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Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (Ant 5), 1962
Estimate £5,500,000–7,500,000 / HK$58,520,000–79,800,000

A picture of weightless exaltation – the dawning of Klein’s ‘blue epoch’ – Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 5) is an exquisite, rare instance of Yves Klein’s series of body paintings, the Anthropométries.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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Jean-Michael Basquiat, Untitled, 1982
Estimate £1,500,000–2,000,000 / HK$15,960,000–26,600,000

Searing in its electric immediacy, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled is masterful example of this artist’s instinctive draughtsmanship that is deeply imbued with a sense of self-portraiture. The present work was created during a year of unprecedented success for the twenty-two year old prodigy: in 1982 Basquiat had his first solo exhibitions with Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles, Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, and other galleries in New York and Rotterdam.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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Keith Haring, August 15, 1983
Estimate £1,000,000–1,500,000 / HK$10,640,000–15,960,000

Unseen in public since its execution in 1983, August 15 is a cacophony of line and symbol, a semiotic vision that encompasses the very best of Keith Haring’s work. Replete with barking dogs, pregnant women, robots and figures in various postures, the painting is divided into an upper and lower register, each representing a divergent vision which nevertheless contributes to the harmony of the whole.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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Francis Bacon, Study of a Figure, 1954
Estimate £3,000,000–4,000,000 / HK$31,920,000–42,560,000

This remarkable painting is a recent Bacon discovery, given that for more than sixty years it remained in private collections, lost to public view until it was exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco in 2016.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn (Reversal Series), 1979-86
Estimate £1,200,000–1,800,000 / HK$12,768,000–19,152,000

In Marilyn (Reversal Series), the viewer confronts an uncanny, prismatic and postmodern representation of the most iconic image in Andy Warhol’s visual lexicon. Conceived as a re-reading of his best-known Pop paintings at the suggestion of his dealer Bruno Bischofberger, the Reversal series of 1979 to 1986 joins Warhol’s 1980 memoir POPism: The Warhol Sixties and the Andy Warhol’s TV series as part of the artist’s unprecedentedly reflexive and experimental later period.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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Andy Warhol, Vesuvius, 1985
Estimate £800,000–1,200,000 / HK$8,512,000–12,768,000

Created in 1985 Vesuvius is one of only a handful of works from this small eponymous series by Andy Warhol. Enshrining the menacing energy of the iconic Neapolitan volcano, this painting purports the looming threat of annihilation in bold Pop art colour. Acquired by the present owner from the eminent art dealer Lucio Amelio, the present work has remained in the same Neapolitan collection for over 30 years.

Contemporary Art Evening Auction
26 June | London

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