Bacon, Richter, Koons and Grotjahn are among the greats whose work will feature at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary art evenign sale in London on October 4. The season will be led by Francis Bacon’s Figure in Movement (1972)(£15,000,000-20,000,000), a seminal work which creates a vivid sense of the transition from life to death, and Gerhard Richter’s Schädel (Skull) (1983) unveiled for the first time in 30 years.
Alongside these are masterpieces by American Contemporary artists Jeff Koons and Mark Grotjahn, as well as the finest examples of European Post-War Abstraction with works by Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages, and German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Sigmar Polke. Three works from the personal collection of Paul Maenz and 12 works by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud will be offered. This is the largest and most diverse selection of works by these artists ever at auction.
Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Figure in Movement © Christie’s Images Limited 2018
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
Schädel (Skull) courtesy CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018
Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968)
Untitled (Yellow and Green Low Fall Face 41.80 courtesy CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018
Jeff Koons (B. 1955)
Cracked Egg (Blue) courtesy CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018
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