FRANZ WEST (1947-2012) – BLUE LUCK. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £285,750
Franz West began producing his beloved large-scale, brightly painted tubular and bulbous sculptures in the mid-1990s, initially in welded sheets of aluminium and later in fibreglass. Many of them include places to sit. Blue Luck, constructed of fibreglass, epoxy resin and lacquer, is lot 31 at Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on October 15 with an estimate of £300,000-£500,000. The sale offers revolutions in art making from Impressionism to Modernism with art by Paul Cezanne, Paul Signac, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Paul Rego, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Jean Michel Basquiat among the 61 lots on offer.
