3 min read · 29 Nov 2024
Yoshitomo Nara's Baby Blue sold for $5.81m. Image courtesy of Phillips
There was more to the week than collector Justin Sun's conspicuous consumpton of a banana temporarily part of his edition of Maurizio Cattelan's banana-and-tapeduct work, the artist's joke that keeps on giving. The publicity hungry also collector splashed out on a truck load of the soft fruit from the same New York vendor who unwittingly supplied the edible part of the $6.2m work. Here are this week's other talking points.
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Hong Kong: Yoshitomo Nara led Phillips $22m Modern & Contemporary evening sale and the auction house’s $6.5m day sale. For all the highlights, see the HENI News reports.
Hong Kong: Li Hei Di’s auction record jumped 22% when Orange Swim (2021), a painting by the up-and-coming artist who has recently joined Pace, sold for $155,100, more than three and a half times the low estimate at Phillips. HENI News
Invader’s Camouflage, 21 unique screenprints in five sizes based on the artist’s series of the same name, are now available via HENI Editions until December 9.
Market: David Hammons's sculpture, Head warmer (1998), heads to auction with a $50,000 to $70,000 estimate at Christie's online on December 18. The work was acquired by the late Belgian curator Jan Hoet from the artist. HENI News
Market: Louise Nevelson’s Throne (1977) heads to auction with a $60,000 to $80,000 estimate at Christie's online. The sculpture was a gift to Dianna MacKown, Nevelson's studio assistant. HENI News
Madrid: Paintings by Sigmar Polke are placed in dialogue with works by Goya at the Museo del Prado, making a heavyweight debut by the German artist in the Spanish capital. HENI News
Market: A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction along with the building in Bristol that it is painted on, The Guardian reported.
HENI Editions presents Invader's Camouflage
In other news
Market: Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs December 6-8, will feature a record number of first-time exhibitors as the fair rolls out smaller booths in its main section, The Art Newspaper reported.
Museums: Works by Richard Serraand Yinka Shonibare will be featured in the Almaty Museum of Arts, Kazakhstan’s first private museum of Modern and contemporary art, which is due to open in 2025.
Shows: The 2024 Venice Biennale, which closed on Sunday, November 24, attracted nearly 700,000 visitors, 100,000 fewer than the 2022 edition.
"‘It’s never something I wanted. In fact, I’ve avoided it.’ Dorothea Rockburne, the 95-year-old artist making her London debut, on late-career fame, working with Robert Rauschenberg and why Andy Warhol hung around 'Bob's' studio. "
- Interview Magazine
Dorothea Rockburne in her studio, photographed by Jeannette Montgomery, via Interview Magazine