CHRISTIE’S CELEBRATES THE ECLECTIC EYE OF THE TALENTED AND BELOVED KING OF CROONERS:ANDY WILLIAMS A group of works from the collection of crooner Andy Williams will be offered in the Evening and Day Sales, May 15th and 16th, and is expected to achieve in excess of $30 million.
the same painterly concerns that consumed the pioneers of French modernism: like Matisse, Dufy, and Picasso, Avery arranges planes of saturated color while retaining the two-dimensional surface of the canvas.
Latin American Art: New York 30 May 2013
In 1923, the Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam set sail for Spain, where he would remain for the next fourteen years. His new exposure to European art—everything from Realism and Abstraction to Cubism and Surrealism—ignited a moment of great creative experimentation. Executed in 1937, just before the Spanish Civil War and Lam’s departure for Paris, Untitled (Abstract) demonstrates the artist’s outstanding ability to synthesize and refine vanguard ideas and practices into his own artistic idiom. Interlocking planes, abstract geometric shapes, and stylized pictographic forms coexist in a composition that anticipates Lam’s syncretic approach to modernism.
African Art: Paris 12 June 2013
The upcoming African and Oceanic Art sale in Paris will present a selection of African sculptures from the Andy Williams collection. The selection will be led by an important and rare Igbo couple from Nigeria created for a shrine and called Ugonachomma. Representations of couples as well as life size sculptures are extremely rare in African art. The gesture of these two figures is particularly tender and naturalistic a quality rarely seen in African art. Another highlight of the collection is embodied by a fine Kota Reliquary from the former collections of Russell B. Aitken and Frank Crowinshield. Crowninshield was a great art collector and taste-maker of the 1930's and the creator of Vanity Fair magazine. Highlights of the Andy Williams African Art will be on view in NY in May.
AUCTIONS: New York – London - Paris
Impressionist & Modern Art - New York - 8-9 May 2013
Post-War & Contemporary Art - New York - 15-16 May 2013
American Art - New York - 23 May 2013
Latin American Art - New York - 30 May 2013
African & Oceanic Art - Paris - 12 June 2013
20th Century Decorative Art and Design - New York - 13 June 2013
Post-War & Contemporary Art - London - 25-26 June 2013
Open House - New York - 23 July 2013
First Open - New York - 10 September 2013
Prints & Multiples - New York - 29 October 2013
Related Sale Sale 2782
IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN EVENING SALE
8 MAY 2013
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Sale 2785
POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY EVENING SALE
15 MAY 2013
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Sale 2707
AMERICAN ART
23 MAY 2013
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Sale 2708
LATIN AMERICAN ART
30 MAY 2013
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Sale 1176
ART AFRICAIN ET OCÉANIEN
12 JUNE 2013
Paris
Sale 2684
20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS
13 JUNE 2013
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Sale 1134
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING AUCTION
25 JUNE 2013
London, King Street
Sale 1135
POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART DAY AUCTION
26 JUNE 2013
London, King Street
