Portrait of Ingvild Goetz with Gabriel Orozco’s Invariant Diagram Red (Samurai Tree), 2005 – Photo Thomas Schmidt, Hamburg © Goetz Collection (Click to enlarge)
Urs Fischer (born 1973) Mr. Toobad (£250,000-350,000). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013. (Click to enlarge).
A total of 128 works from the collection of Mrs. Ingvild Goetz – who holds Germany’s largest private collection of Post-War & Contemporary Art – are to be offered at Christie’s in London. They will feature at three auctions, two this month and one in April. Mrs. Goetz’s collection includes almost 5,000 objects which date from the late 1950’s to the present.
Proceeds will benefit long-term philanthropic projects. Mrs. Goetz has just completed a project to support children in Nepal and she wants to raise awareness of under represented charitable causes, including support for anorexia and the improvement of conditions for asylum seekers.
The selection to be sold at Christie’s features work by 63 different artists including Christopher Wool, Richard Prince, Urs Fischer and Sherrie Levine. They will be at Christie’s post war and contemporary auctions on February 13 and 14 and at the post war and contemporary sale in South Kensington on April 17.