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As a key figure in the Sierra Club, Ansel Adams was involved in persistent lobbying of local and national politicians for the environmental cause, and many of his greatest photographs were taken on an assignment that reflected his ecological aims A portfolio of Adams’ prints from one of the Sierra Club’s High Trips into the Yosemite in 1929 is among the treasures featured in our sale on 6 April. Ansel Adams (1902–1984), The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942. Estimate: $30,000-50,000. Photographs including Property Sold to Benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation – 6 April at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center. Reproduced with permission from The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All rights reserved. #artist #art #photographer #photography #anseladams #adams #landscape #blackandwhite #technical #river #mountain
Final #Handpicked highlights from our specialists @noah_postwar: ‘Sad to say that it’s the last day to view the wonderful works of #100xHandpicked artists selected by the #SaatchiGallery at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center! Shown here are #MatthewBrannon #RuthRoot #HumaBhabha and #KhalifKelly. Looking forward to an exciting sale tomorrow morning at 10am EST.’ Matthew Brannon (b. 1971), Switching Positions, 2006 Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 Ruth Root (b. 1967), Untitled, 2004 Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 Huma Bhabha (b. 1962), International Monument, 2003 Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 Khalif Kelly (b. 1980), Neighbourhood Haircut Contest, 2007 Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Behold #HenryTaylor The Young, the Brave, Bobby Hutton R.I.P. Oakland, California. 2007. This painting is a major highlight of #100xHandpicked artists selected by the #SaatchiGallery in New York on 22 March. Taylor's portrait of slain Black Panther Bobby Hutton, murdered by cops as a teenager in 1968, is a powerful elegy for a young man whose unjust killing galvanized the Civil Rights movement. Taylor has effaced Hutton's features and renders his shirt with thick yellow impasto. The painterly figure contrasts strikingly against the flat charcoal gray background, where fragments of an American flag are scratched into a decaying wall. Come see it in person - we're open today until 5pm! Henry Taylor (b. 1958) "The Young, the Brave, Bobby Hutton" R.I.P. Oakland, California, 2007 Estimate: $35,000 - $45,000 (at Christie's)
A highlight from @noah_postwar: I’m delighted to announce that our New York exhibition of #100xHandpicked artists selected by the #SaatchiGallery opens today at Rockefeller Center! Here is an image of #MatthewBrannon’s epic “Switching Positions,” 2006, being installed last night. The artist has transformed the menacing silhouettes of various knives into a nearly abstract grid of hard-edged black shapes. This intense design can be installed in any size using either vinyl or enamel paint. Clearly, we chose to go big. Really, really big. We’re open today through the 21st - don’t be shy to stop by and say hello! Matthew Brannon (b. 1971), Switching Positions, 2006. Estimate: $5,000-$7,000 Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery, March 22 (at Christie's)
Ivorian painter Aboudia evokes the energy and danger of West African urban life through paint and crayon. The artist’s home city of Abidjan has been the site of ongoing violence and unrest since 2011, and the crazed expression and frenzied paintwork of Untitled Tête create a vision of a man surrounded by chaos. Aboudia (B. 1983), Untitled Tête, 2014. Estimate £8,000-12,000. Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the @saatchi_gallery – Tomorrow at Christie's London, South Kensington. #art #artist #painting #ivorycoast #energy #danger #westafrica #africa #urban #crayon #chaos #contemporaryart
While aspects of Hu Yongkai’s depictions of women include traditional elements, such as the furniture in this painting, the posture of his subjects, along with their clothing and demeanour, are modern and fresh. The colour and simplicity of this painting — and the affectionate moment between a woman and her cat — create an appealing and emotionally uplifting image. Hu Yongkai (b. 1945), Lady and Cat. Estimate: $2,000-4,000. Fine Chinese Paintings – 14 March 2017 at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center. #art #artist #artoftheday #huyongkai’s #furniture #painting #contemporaryart #colour #woman #cat #girl
‘Handscrolls are in many ways the most intimate form of Chinese traditional painting' – Elizabeth Hammer, our specialist in Chinese Paintings. ‘When you see a handscroll displayed wide open in a museum it’s actually not the way you are supposed to see it; what you lose is the cinematic unfolding of the composition as you go along.’ Offered in our 'Important Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum' auction on 15 March at Christie’s New York are six handscroll paintings, all owned by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) of the Qing Dynasty. #art #handscrolls #scrolls #chinese #painting #chinesepainting #cinematic #emperorqianlong #qing #qingdynasty
In 2011, Zhang Daqian became not only the most popular Chinese artist at auction but the best-selling artist in the world, surpassing his former acquaintance, Picasso. Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), Lilies And Rock. Estimate: $20,000-40,000. Fine Chinese Paintings – 14 March 2017 at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center
Heidi Weber first met Le Corbusier in the summer of 1958 at Cap Martin on the Côte d’Azur. The encounter marked the beginning of a close and remarkably productive partnership between the pair. -- Three Le Corbusier works from the Heidi Weber Museum Collection will form a centrepiece of our Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale tomorrow. -- #art #artist #lecorbusier #painting #modernart #heidiweber
This is the final of three studies of George Dyer completed in 1963, created during the greatest moment of personal and professional contentment in Bacon’s career. -- The three works can be viewed now at Christie’s London from 24 February to 8 March and will be on view in May ahead of the auction on May 17. -- Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963. Oil on canvas, in three parts. Estimate: $50,000,000-70,000,000. -- Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale – 17 May at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center. -- #art #artist #artoftheday #bacon #francisbacon #painting #contemporaryart #portrait #study
@zoelunamaria on a sculpture by James Capper from our Handpicked by @saatchi_gallery auction. -- 'Capper demolishes the boundaries between sculpture and engineering, making machines with a life of their own. Built from scratch, the crab-like Nipper (Long Reach) is imbued with a lively anthropomorphism. Originating in what he calls ‘dream drawings’, his works derive from his collaboration with a chain of industrial suppliers.' -- James Capper (b. 1987), Nipper (Long Reach), 2012. Estimate: £3,000-5,000. -- Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery – 10 March at Christie’s London, South Kensington. -- #art #artist #artoftheday #jamescapper #sculpture #engineering #claw #contemporaryart
@noah_postwar takes a look at an image by Jon Rafman from our upcoming Handpicked by @saatchi_gallery auction. -- 'This work belongs to Rafman’s The Nine Eyes of Google Street View project, in which he scours the gigantic database of images captured by Google Maps for fleeting moments of interest — surreal, poetically beautiful or humorous. With this galloping reindeer, he underscores the tenuous relationship between man, technology and nature.' -- Jon Rafman (b. 1981), Rv888, Finnmark, Norway — Google View, 2010. Estimate: $3,500-4,500. -- Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery – 22 March at Christie’s, New York. -- #art #artist #artoftheday #jonrafman #print #google #map #digital #digitalart #contemporaryart
For our special Handpicked by @saatchi_gallery auction we've asked two of our specialists – @zoelunamaria and @noah_postwar – for 50 words on their personal highlights. Here's Zoë on Anne Hardy... -- 'Anne Hardy’s disquieting photographs invite the viewer to step into her invented spaces, which she creates from found and second-hand items. These unnerving interiors, which contain traces of human presence, originate in a performative process, with the resulting ‘scenes’ only ever being observed through the mediating gaze of the camera.' -- Anne Hardy (b. 1970), Cell, 2004. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. -- Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery – 10 March at Christie’s South Kensington. -- #art #artist #artoftheday #annehardy #photo #photograph #photooftheday #contemporaryart
#OnThisDay in 1967, 15 years ago, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Carribean was drafted and opened for signature. -- On 28 April in New York, we will offer the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1982 to Alfonso García Robles (1911-1991), the driving force behind the Treaty, which has kept Latin America and the Caribbean nuclear-free to this day. -- Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1982 to Mexican diplomat and disarmament expert Alfonso García Robles. Estimate: $400,000-600,000. -- The Exceptional Sale – 28 April at Christie’s New York. -- #medal #gold #peace #nobelpeaceprize #treaty #latinamerica #carribean #exceptional
Meet the artists who broke all the rules. -- We’re counting down to 20th Century at Christie's in London, our extraordinary sale series dedicated to one of the most exhilarating periods in art history #Christies20thCentury -- Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction – 7 March, King Street, 19.00. Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction – 8 March, King Street, 13.00. Handpicked: 100 Works Selected by the Saatchi Gallery – 10 & 22 March (London and New York), 13.00 and TBC. Next Chapter: Contemporary art from an important Italian Collection – 2–14 March, Online. -- #art #artist #artists #painting #modernart #contemporaryart #20thcentury #christies
Fashion played an important role in Berthe Morisot’s art, perhaps nowhere more than in Femme en Noir, depicting an elegant young woman making her way to the theatre #Christies20thCentury -- Painted in 1875, a year before the Second Impressionist exhibition, this painting is one of the only full-length portraits in Berthe Morisot’s oeuvre, and is undoubtedly one of the finest works of her career. -- Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Femme en Noir, 1875. Estimate: £600,000-800,000. -- Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale – 28 February at Christie’s London, King Street. -- #art #artist #artoftheday #painting #impressionism #impressionists #modernart #morisot #berthemorisot #girl #fashion #portrait #christies