Post-War & Contemporary Art
Featuring works sold to benefit Modern Art Oxford
8 March 2017, 4pm
London, 101 New Bond Street
Enquiries:
Gareth Williams
Departmental Director
Post-War & Contemporary Art
+44 (0) 20 7468 5879
www.bonhams.com/contemporaryart
Viewing times:
Saturday 4th March 11am - 5pm
Sunday 5th March 11am - 5pm
Monday 6th March 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 7th March 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 8th March 9am - 2pm
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JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN (B. 1962 AND 1966)
Barrel of Laughs
2015
enamel, resin and metal
8 by 14 by 16 cm.
3 1/8 by 5 1/2 by 6 5/16 in.
This work was executed in 2015, and is unique.
£10,000-15,000
Provenance
Donated by the artists
Turner Prize nominees (2003) and art world enfants terribles, Jake and Dinos Chapman have achieved notoriety since the
1990s for their deliberately shocking works ranging from their early disturbing tableaux of conjoined child mannequins to
their 2008 series of work appropriating original watercolours by Hitler. Their exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, The Rape of
Creativity in 2003 included a collection of Goya’s celebrated Disasters of War etchings, which they controversially defaced
by overdrawing. This new work, created for Modern Art Oxford, relates to their epic masterwork Hell which was destroyed
in a storage warehouse fire in 2004.
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Rape of Creativity was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 12 April to 8 June 2003.
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON (B. 1941)
Roberta's Construction Chart 1
1975-2004
signed and numbered 10/12
archival digital print and dye transfer
Image: 58 by 40.5 cm.
22 13/16 by 15 15/16 in.
Sheet: 62 by 45 cm.
24 7/16 by 17 11/16 in.
This work was conceived in 1975 and executed circa 2004, and is number ten from an edition of twelve plus two artist's
proofs.
£7,000-10,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Widely considered one of the most influential media artists of her generation, American artist and film-maker Lynn
Hershmann Leeson has made pioneering contributions to photography, video, film, performance, installation and
interactive, net-based art for over five decades. This work originates from her seminal The Roberta Breitmore Series (197478) in which the artist adopted a fully developed alter ego, Roberta Breitmore, for four years. Roberta had her own
mannerisms, handwriting, clothing, wig and makeup, apartment, psychiatrist and credit cards. She went on dates and
advertised for flatmates, hiring a private detective to evidence her existence, as part of a pioneering early body of work that
explored identity in a society in which we are documented by our consumer patterns, surveillance and governmental
processes. This piece, generously donated by the artist, provides detailed instructions as to how Roberta does her makeup, highlighting the constructed nature of personal identity and offering a performative tool whereby anyone can become
Roberta Breitmore.
Lynn Hershmann Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2) was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 29 May to 9 August 2015.
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MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ (B. 1946)
Portrait with Falcon
2010
digital pigment print
Image: 30.5 by 30.5 cm.
12 by 12 in.
Sheet: 45.7 by 45.7 cm.
18 by 18 in.
This work was executed in 2010, and is number twelve from an edition of twenty-five plus three artist's proofs.
£3,000-4,000
This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Internationally renowned Serbian-born artist, Marina Abramović is perhaps the best-known performance artist working in
the art world today. Working since the 1970s, her vanguard practice interrogates the relationship between performer and
audience, the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind, exploring themes of emotional and spiritual
transfiguration. This piece Portrait with Falcon, captures the intensity of an encounter with the artist, heightened by
spiritual symbolism of the regal falcon, an animal associated throughout history with vision, freedom and victory.
Marina Abramović: Objects, Performance, Video, Sound was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 9 April to 2 July 1995
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TRACEY EMIN (B. 1963)
Landscape
2015
signed, titled and dated 2015
acrylic on paper
28 by 38 cm.
11 by 14 15/16 in.
£6,000-8,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Turner Prize nominee (1999), Tracey Emin garnered international attention and sometimes controversy as one of the Young
British Artists emerging in the 1980s. Working across a wide range of media, Emin is known for autobiographical and
confessional works, often involving confrontational subject matter and taboo subjects, in which her experience of being
female and of her body are central. Her 2002 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford for example, included a large-scale replica of
the pier in Margate in Kent where Emin’s early adolescent sexual experiences, including exploitation and abuse, occurred.
Current Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools, the artist has generously donated one of her psychologicallycharged drawings of a solitary, reclining female form.
Tracey Emin: This Is Another Place was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 10 November 2002 to 19 January 2003.
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RICHARD HAMILTON (1922-2011)
Lobby
1984
signed and numbered 62/88
collotype and screenprint on paper
Image: 38 by 52.2 cm.
14 15/16 by 20 9/16 in.
Sheet: 42.9 by 58.2 cm.
16 7/8 by 22 15/16 in.
This work was executed in 1984, and is number sixty-two from an edition of eighty-eight plus nine artist's proofs.
£2,000-3,000
Provenance
Courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery and the Estate of Richard Hamilton
Founding member of the Independent Group in the 1950s and pioneer of Pop Art, Richard Hamilton exhibited at Modern
Art Oxford in 1988. This work, generously donated by the Richard Hamilton estate, entered Tate’s collection in 2009.
Richard Hamilton: Installations was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 22 May to 3 July 1988.
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KARLA BLACK (B. 1972)
Fed
2015
sugar paper, oil paint, body paint, cotton wool, ribbon
Dimensions of Cloud: 49 by 54 by 23 cm.
19 1/4 by 21 1/4 by 9 1/8 in.
This work was executed in 2015.
£5,000-7,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Scottish artist and Turner Prize nominee (2011) Karla Black creates abstract sculptures using a combination of everyday
materials including powder, soap, gels, and pastes, along with more traditional media such as plaster, chalk, paint, and
paper. Carefully arranged on the floor or suspended from the ceiling, they are typically made on site, such as in her direct
response to the spaces of Modern Art Oxford, and include direct evidence of the process of their creation through
fingerprints and dust. Delicate, messy, sensuous, and visceral, they testify to a physical experience of the world that lies
beyond metaphorical and symbolic references. Poised between form and anti-form, they emerge like transitional states or
naturally occurring sediments.
Karla Black exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, 30 September to 29 November 2009.
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HOWARD HODGKIN (B. 1932)
Picture Frame
2015
signed, titled, dated 2015 and inscribed For Modern Art Oxford on the reverse of the frame
oil and watercolour on paper
36 by 42 cm.
14 3/16 by 16 9/16 in.
£20,000-30,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Howard Hodgkin is one of Britain’s most celebrated living artists. Working since the 1960s and inspired by locations, travel,
personal encounters and the seasons, he is mostly associated with abstract painting and print-making as a brilliant colourist
and master of gestural painting, Howard Hodgkin first showed at Modern Art Oxford in 1977 and then returned more than
thirty years later with a major solo exhibition in 2010. This is a new unique work that the artist has very generously made
for this fundraising auction to benefit Modern Art Oxford.
Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 23 June - 12 September 2010.
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JIM LAMBIE (B. 1964)
Untitled
2012
spray paint on steel
40 by 17.8 by 18 cm.
15 3/4 by 7 by 7 1/16 in.
This work was executed in 2012, and is unique.
£3,000-5,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Scottish artist and Turner Prize nominee (2005) Jim Lambie is well known for his trademark multi-coloured vinyl tape floor
installations and playful sculptures and installations. Lambie often appropriates everyday modern materials into his work,
including pop culture objects such as posters and album covers, and household accessories and clothing such as with this
piece, generously donated by the artist.
Jim Lambie: Male Stripper was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 13 September to 9 November 2003.
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BRIDGET RILEY (B. 1931)
Rose Red modulations with Green and blue contrasts
1985
signed, titled and dated 85
gouache on paper
82 by 58 cm.
32 5/16 by 22 13/16 in.
£30,000-40,000
Provenance
Juda Rowan Gallery, London
Private Collection, London (acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1986)
Donated by the above
The work of iconic British Op artist, Bridget Riley is instantly recognisable, perhaps forever associated with the swinging ‘60s
in which she first emerged to international celebrity. Working initially only in black and white, producing the works for
which she is perhaps best known, from 1967 she began exploring colour producing her first stripe painting. During the
1980s, her palette was influenced by her travels to Egypt where she was inspired by the colourful hieroglyphic decorations,
and to Venice where she returned in 1983 to study the masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance. This unique work on
paper from 1985 has been generously donated by Dasha Shenkman OBE, Modern Art Oxford Patron.
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ANISH KAPOOR (B. 1954)
Untitled (I)
1988
signed, dated 1988 and numbered AP 2(I)
aquatint
Image: 112.8 by 89.5 cm.
44 7/16 by 35 1/4 in.
Sheet: 134 by 107 cm.
52 3/4 by 42 1/8 in.
This work is the artist's proof number two of ten, aside from the edition of twenty.
£2,000-3,000
Provenance
Donated by a Private Collection, London
British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public
sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, he manoeuvers between different scales and
contexts, working in series. This work on paper has been generously donated by Dasha Shenkman OBE, Modern Art Oxford
Patron.
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RICHARD WENTWORTH (B. 1947)
Caledonian Road, London, 2007
2013
c-print and nails, in the artist's frame
Sheet: 31.6 by 48 cm.
12 7/16 by 18 7/8 in.
Overall: 39 by 55.1 by 7 cm.
15 3/8 by 21 11/16 by 2 3/4 in.
This work was executed in 2013, and is unique.
£1,000-1,500
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, exploring the notion of
objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as
photography. This work, generously donated by the artist, forms a part of his ongoing photographic series Making Do and
Getting By in which Wentworth registers chance encounters of oddities and discrepancies in the modern urban landscape,
paying attention to objects, occasional and involuntary geometries, as well as uncanny situations that often go unnoticed.
Richard Wentworth was Master of Drawing, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University from 2002 to 2010.
YOKO ONO (B. 1933)
add color painting I LOVE U
2004
signed with the artist's initials
die-cut plexiglass on canvas
33 by 45 by 2.8 cm.
13 by 17 11/16 by 1 1/8 in.
This work was executed in 2004, and is number three from an edition of eighty-one plus nine artist's proofs.
£2,000-3,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Japanese artist Yoko Ono is a global cultural icon and activist. Emerging as a Fluxus artist in New York in the early 1960s,
Ono has worked across performance, installation, music and new media as a conceptual artist exploring a wide range of
artistic ideas and practices. A central aspect of her practice has been interactivity and participation, collapsing the
distinction between artist and audience, as with this work, generously donated by the artist, which is completed by the
viewer.
Yoko Ono: Have You Seen The Horizon Lately? was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 23 November to 15 March 1998.
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CALLUM INNES (B. 1962)
Untitled
2010
signed and dated 2010 on the overlap
oil on canvas
82 by 79.8 cm.
32 5/16 by 31 7/16 in.
£15,000-20,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Scottish artist and Turner Prize nominee (1995) Callum Innes belongs to a generation of British artists who continue to
explore the possibilities of paint on canvas, specifically the language of the monochrome, an established format of abstract
painting since the 1960s. His paintings are created through a painstaking process of addition and subtraction, skillfully
removing sections of paint from the canvas surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there
before. As is the case with this work, generously donated by the artist, where the painted surface of the canvas has been
reduced to a simple black line.
Callum Innes: From Memory was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 13 February to 15 April 2007.
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CECILY BROWN (B. 1969)
Untitled (Ladyland)
2012-2015
signed and dated 2012-15 on the reverse
gouache, watercolour, ink and pastel on paper
45.8 by 60.8 cm.
18 1/16 by 23 15/16 in.
£5,000-7,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
British artist Cecily Brown is one of the leading painters of her generation, attracting international critical acclaim for her
large-scale works that combine gestural abstraction expressionism with figurative elements. This unique work on paper,
generously donated by the artist, evidences her skilful handling of form and colour for which she has become so admired.
Cecily Brown: Paintings was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 28 June to 28 August 2005.
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ANTONY GORMLEY (B. 1950)
BODY LXV
2014
signed, titled, dated 2014 and inscribed for Modern Art Oxford on the reverse
carbon and casein on paper
77.2 by 55.8 cm.
30 3/8 by 21 15/16 in.
£18,000-25,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
British artist Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the
relationship of the human body to space. Always taking the human form as a starting point, Gormley’s work has developed
the potential opened-up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of
others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos.
Anthony Gormley featured in the group show, Enclosed and Enchanted at Modern Art Oxford, 16 July to 8 October 2000.
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MONA HATOUM (B. 1952)
Bunker (cube bldg)
2011
mild steel tubing
90 by 120 by 80 cm.
35 7/16 by 47 1/4 31 1/2 in.
This work was executed in 2011.
£50,000-70,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Lebanese-born Palestinian artist, Mona Hatoum makes installations and sculptures in a wide range of materials. Her work
often has a close relationship to architecture – as with this major piece, generously donated by the artist – and she often
uses the grid or geometric forms to reference systems of control within society. Frequently, her sculptures incorporate
everyday household objects which are scaled up or changed in some way to make them appear familiar but also alien and
threatening.
Mona Hatoum exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, 5 April to 28 June 1998.
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ALISON TURNBULL (B. 1956)
Grain Elevator
2000
signed and dated 2000 on the reverse
oil on linen laid on board
91.5 by 61 cm.
36 by 24 in.
£3,000-5,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
British artist Alison Turnbull transforms readymade information – plans, diagrams, blueprints and charts – into abstract
paintings. The found source material is reimagined and made vivid through colour and through the intensity of the worked
picture surface. In 2001, Alison Turnbull presented a new body of paintings originating in architectural drawings, including
this piece, based on a grain elevator, which the artist has generously donated for sale to support Modern Art Oxford.
Alison Turnbull: Houses Into Flats was presented at Modern Art Oxford, 28 January 28 to 22 April 2001.
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JANNIS KOUNELLIS (B. 1936)
Untitled
2017
iron plate, i-beam and rope
71 by 51 cm.
27.9 by 20 in.
This work was executed in 2017.
£20,000-30,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Associated with the Arte Povera movement from 1967 onwards, Greek artist Jannis Kounellis’s work is characterised by the
juxtaposition of diverse elements, including ready-made objects such as bed frames, doors and shelves and raw materials
such as stone, cotton, wool, coal, fire and soot. Throughout his prolific career, Kounellis has extended the boundaries of
contemporary art, making works that reflect the ever-changing world around us while also deeply resonating with his own
traditions and culture. This piece is a new work that the artist has very generously made specifically for this auction to raise
funds for Modern Art Oxford.
Jannis Kounellis exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, 11 December 2004 to 6 March 2005.
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE (B. 1955)
Bird Catcher
2006
signed and numbered AP 1/12
archival pigment print
Image: 144.1 by 101.5 cm.
56 3/4 by 39 15/16 in.
Sheet: 151.1 by 108 cm.
59 1/2 by 42 1/2 in.
This work was executed in 2006, and is number one of twelve artist's proofs aside from an edition of sixty.
£8,000-12,000
Provenance
Donated by the artist
South African artist William Kentridge is renowned for his animated drawings and films exploring time, the history of
colonialism and the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics. This print, generously donated by the artist, features
one of his leitmotifs – birds – a symbol of freedom and peace, here shown in a vice-like apparatus, a metaphor of
oppression and control, which are recurring themes throughout this work.
William Kentridge featured in the group show Art from South Africa at Modern Art Oxford, 17 June to 23 September 1990.