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“You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they’ve had a few drinks and they say ‘I’ll buy it!’ Then they tell their friends, ‘You must have this person’s work, darling,’ and that’s all you need. That’s all it takes. Get it?”
Andy Warhol
Uncle Sam, from Myths
screenprint in colors with diamond dust, on Lenox Museum Board, 1981, signed in pencil, numbered 135/200 (there were also 30 artist’s proofs), published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, with the artist’s copyright ink stamp on the reverse, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Sheet: 38 x 38 in. (965 x 965 mm.)
Estimate
USD 30,000 – USD 50,000
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“Art must be an integral part of life, not something reserved for a museum or a millionaire’s living room.”
Diego Rivera
The Rivals
signed and dated ‘Diego Rivera 1931’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1931
Price realised
USD 14,130,000
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“You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.” — Elizabeth Peyton
ELIZABETH PEYTON (B. 1965)
Jude Law as Lord Alfred Douglas
titled and dated ‘Jude Law as Lord Alfred Douglas 27.11.98’ (on the reverse)
watercolor on paper
29 ¾ x 22 in. (75.6 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1998.
Price realised
USD 187,500
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“It’s instinctive in a certain kind of painting…It’s like a nervous system. It’s not described, it’s happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.” — Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘Cy Twombly 1970’ (on the reverse)
oil based house paint and wax crayon on canvas
61 ¼ x 74 ¾ in. (155.5 x 190 cm.)
Executed in 1970.
Price realised
USD 69,605,000
772864295530840064
“Be true to yourself.” — RIP David Lynch
📷: SANDRO, INC.
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“In stating that Abstract Art died of acute boredom, I meant boredom on the part of both public and artist. The public got bored because these things meant nothing to them, and they only went to see them in the first instance because they made them laugh. After a bit they became a stale joke. The artists’ boredom was of a more complicated order. I will endeavor to explain it.”
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“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock
Number 19, 1948
1948
oil and enamel on paper mounted on canvas
30 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.
Price realised
USD 58,363,750