Francis Bacon’s Study for Self Portrait at Sotheby’s. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £4,521,250.
London’s exciting contemporary art sales season which gets underway later this month could be a record breaker. If the trend apparent already this year continues estimates will be smashed, records will be broken and sales will be in multiples of millions. Sotheby’s expect that their evening sale on June 26 – headed by Francis Bacon’s 1980 work, Study for Self Portrait – will bring in more than £50 million. The Bacon study, in which the artist aged 71 looks back at himself as a young man. It is estimated at £5-7 million.
Other highlights include Jean Michel Basquiat’s Warrior, 1982 with a similar estimate to the Bacon, Girl in a Mirror by Roy Lichtenstein estimated at £2.5-3.5 million and Gerhard Richter’s Untitled estimated at £2.5-3.5 million.
With works by Basquiat, Bacon and Yves Klein all expected to make over £10 million Christie’s anticipates that their contemporary art sale on June 27 will bring in more than £120 million.
Girl in a Mirror by Roy Lichtenstein at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE £2,393,250.
Untitled by Gerhard Richter at Sotheby’s. UPDATE: THIS MADE £2,841,250.
Jean Michel Basquiat’s Warrior at Sotheby’s. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £5,585,250.