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ANDY WARHOL – The Scream (After Munch), 1984 screenprint (£200,000 – 300,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £211,250

WARHOL meets Munch at Sotheby’s sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary prints in London on September 19.  The auction will feature three exceptional prints by Andy Warhol which appropriate motifs from some of Munch’s most iconic works.

The Scream (After Munch), Eva Mudocci (After Munch), and Madonna and Self-Portrait with Skeleton’s Arm (After Munch) are a rare and enterprising offering from Warhol.  The three prints come to auction with a combined estimate of £500,000-700,000.  They are from a European private collection.

A woodcut by Edvard Munch which depicts The Girls on the Bridge, one of the artist’s most celebrated and popular compositions, is included.  Printed in 1918 it is estimated at £180,000 – 200,000.

Nearly 200 lots which showcase 500 years of print making will feature in the sale.

EDVARD MUNCH – The Girls on the Bridge. Woodcut, 1918 (£180,000 – 200,000). Click on image to enlarge.  UPDATE: THIS MADE £205,250

ANDY WARHOL – Madonna and Self-Portrait with Skeleton’s Arm (After Munch). 1984 screenprint (£200,000 – 300,000). Click on image to enlarge.  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

ANDY WARHOL – Eva Mudocci (After Munch). 1984 screenprint (£100,000 – 150,000). Click on image to enlarge.  UPDATE: THIS MADE £121,250

WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) – Studie für improvisation 8. UPDATE: IT MADE $23,042,500

A major work from abstract art pioneer Wassily Kandinsky comes under the hammer at Christie’s in New York in November.  The auction house will offer Kandinsky’s “Study for improvisation 8” at its evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 7.  The work is a fully realized study for the last of eight paintings created in 1909 which the Russian artist called “Improvisations”.  The series is widely recognised for its significance to the advancement of abstract art.

Estimated at $20-30 million the mystical scene of a conquering hero wielding a golden sword has the potential to set a new record price for any work by the artist at auction.  The current record of $20.9 million was set in 1990.

Studie für improvisation 8 is offered from the collection of the Volkart Foundation, a charitable trust founded by Volkart Brothers, a prominent Swiss commodities trading firm established in 1851.  Since 1960, the painting has been on loan from the Foundation to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.  Over the years, it has been featured in major museum shows organized by the Tate Modern, Kunstmuseum Basel, the Fondation Beyeler and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montréal, among others.

Procession with Lilies by Louis le Brocquy from the Independent collection at Adams. (Click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: IT MADE 320,000.

Procession with Lilies by Louis le Brocquy is the most important piece of art in the corporate collection of Independent News and Media to be sold by James Adam in Dublin on September 26.  Painted in 1984-5 it drew its inspiration from a 1939 Evening Herald photograph showing schoolchildren with lilies blessed at the Franciscan Church at Merchant’s Quay in Dublin on the Feast of St. Anthony.  It has a top estimate of 250,000.  The work is particularly well known, and was the subject of a limited edition and popular lithograph.

The 67 pieces from the Independent’s collection were deemed unsuitable for the new largely glass walled corporate headquarters in Dublin’s city centre.  The collection was put together by the late Vincent Ferguson, well known collector and patron of artists, and a director of the newspaper company. The focus is on Irish contemporary art of the 1980’s/’90’s and it includes work by Basil Blackshaw, T.P.Flanagan, Brian Ballard, Eithne Carr and many others. Adams have put a low estimate of 350,000 on the 67 works.

Christo – Poussette empaquetée,1962 (120,000-180,000). Click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 147,750

Martial Raysse, Arbre, Assemblage d’objets (1959-1960) (200,000-300,000). (Click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 216,750

A rich overview of contemporary art in France since the 1960’s will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s in Paris on September 24.  Around 100 lots from the Marcel Brient Collection of Contemporary Art shows extraordinary diversity from the collection of an intuitive, free-thinking Frenchman.  It offers an insight into the work of artists in France over 40 years, discreetly amassed over the past four decades.  The collector maintained close relationships with Galerie Durand-Dessert, Galerie Maeght, Galerie de France and the dealers Claude Bernard and Yvon Lambert, among others.

A number of encounters have guided his eye down the years, the most decisive being that with Louis Clayeux, Director of Galerie Maeght in Paris from 1948-65, who took him to visit Alberto Giacometti in his studio. Other gallerists were equally influential – like Karl Flinker, who sold him a gouache by Jean Helion, and Jean Fournier, who sold him a pastel by Joan Mitchell.

Marcel Brient has the distinction of being one of the first major collectors to buy works by Jeff Koons, John Currin, Takashi Murakami and Felix Gonzales-Torres – not forgetting Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Kara Walker. The artist’s nationality was irrelevant; his taste and eye that led him to the artists he admired.

UPDATE: THE SALE REALISED 5,120,975 EURO.