In nineteen sixty-three
2011
24×26
Oil on linen
Painting Notes:
1/ Caravaggio: The Crucifixion of Peter, 1600-01.
2/ Bernt Notke: Totentanz, l. 15th C.
3/ Seyss-Inquart.
4/ Caravaggio: Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599.
5/ Otto Dix: Hertha, 1920.
6/ Nicolas Poussin: A Dance to the Music of Time.
7/ Maurizio Catelan: Betsy, 2002. retrospective, Guggenheim Museum.
8/ Robb Pruitt: Bedbugs.
9/ Otto Dix: Die Kesse Berta, 1920.
10/ Julius Streicher.
11/ Caravaggio: The Crucifixion of Peter, 1600-01.
12/ Kim Kardashian times three.
13/ Roy Lichtenstein: I Can See the Whole Room! , 1961. $43.2 millions.
14/ Clyfford Still: 1949 – A – No. 1. $61.7 millions.
15/ Cy Twombly: Untitled, 2006. Only $9 millions. [Maybe if it had a juicier title, in French?]
16/ Missing
17/ Caravaggio: Sacrifice of Isaac, 1603.
18/ Balthus: Alice, 1933.
19/ Maurizio Cattelan: Daddy, Daddy. retrospective, Guggenheim Museum.
20/ Meat Week.
21/ Andy Warhol: Liza, 1978. Price Realized $902,500 signed, inscribed and dated ‘to LIZA (Happy tony) Andy Warhol 78’ (on the overlap)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas
14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm.)
Lot Condition Report
The painting has been executed on linen and attached to a stretcher. The support is taut and in plane. Faint stretcher bar marks are visible along both vertical edges. Fine cracks are sporadically visible at the turning edges. A few fine cracks are visible in the sitter’s lips, below her proper right eye, sporadically in her hair, and in the lower right corner. The crack in the lip and the tips of the corners have been partially inpainted
22/ Gustav Klimt: Litzlberg am Altersee
Published: November 3, 2011 “Litzlberg am Attersee” painted in Vienna by Gustav Klimt around 1914-1915 is hardly the greatest landscape ever done by the master. Yet this did not stop it from soaring to $40.4 million, far above the estimate given as “in excess of $25 million.”
23/ Hokusai: Kinoe no Komatsu, 1814.
24/ Willem de Kooning: Flowers, Mary’s Table. 1971.
Some of the evening’s buzz, meanwhile, was owed to the unusual appearance of a superstar celeb, Leonardo DiCaprio, who entered the packed salesrooms with his baseball-capped head tucked down, as if suspecting an onslaught of paparazzi, and cell phone glued to his ear. He sat next to his art dealer pal Helly Nahmad and seemed to follow the proceedings.
The lone Norton lot to make the top-ten price list was Paul McCarthy’s mad assemblage sculpture “Tomato Head (Green),” a 1994 piece in fiberglass, urethane, rubber, metal, plastic, fabric, and painted metal base, that sold to New York, London, and Zürich dealer Iwan Wirth for a record $4,562,500 (est. $1-1.5 million).
Some big-ticket items bombed, including Francis Bacon’s large but unappealing “Study of a Man Talking “ from 1981, which flopped against a $12-18 million estimate, and Willem de Kooning’s juicily wrought “Flowers, Mary’s Table” from 1971, which wilted against its $8-12 million estimate. Gerhard Richter‘s fuzzily realistic “Frau Niepenberg” from 1965 also passed without a bid against its $7-10 million estimate. But the casualties were easily absorbed by the tide of successful bids.
25/ E. J. Bellocq.
26/ Maurizio Catelan: Betsy, 2002. retrospective, Guggenheim Museum.
27/ Andy Warhol: Knives, 1982.
28/ Sarah J. Parker: Sex in the City.
29/ R. Crumb: Devil Girl.Opening February 2, 2009 at Mass Art, “R. CRUMB’S UNDERGROUND” will feature work made by Crumb over the past 40 years. Regarded as the founder of underground comics (or “comix,” as in dirty jokes and adult content), he rose to prominence after pioneering Zap Comix in San Francisco in the late ’60s. “R. Crumb’s Underground” is a career-spanning survey focusing on common Crumb themes: sex, mind-altering drugs, blues and jazz, autobiography, and (of course) social satire; it will include comics, sketchbooks, drawings, and sculpture as well as new and old collaborations with other artists. The show will also debut Crumb’s new “spool” drawings.
30/ Vanessa Beecroft.
31/ The Art Set Charlie Scheips:
The benefit on Thursday was entitled a Night of Olana and was hosted by Oscar de la Renta. The evening began with a silent auction of over 30 works of art by artists such as Delia Brown, Will Cotton, Adam Cvijanovic, Jane Hammond, Alexis Rockman and Cynthia Rowley. Chairs Eliza Bolen, Amy Fine Collins, Daisy Hill, Jazz Johnson Merton, and Allison Sarofim greeted guests during the cocktail hour as guests placed bids on their favorites.
I got to sit at Amy Fine Collins’ table with among others, her husband Brad, Vogue’s Alexandra Kotur, Richard Turley, Alex Hitz, Tiffany’s Robert Rufino.
32/ Rachel Feinstein.
at dinner at Sant Ambroeus after the opening of “Grisaille.”
The artist Rachel Feinstein, center, at dinner at Sant Ambroeus after the opening of “Grisaille.”
33/ Vanessa Beecroft.
Beecroft painted 20 nude models in white body makeup and rested them alongside life-like gesso sculptures cast from live models.
34/ Keith Haring: Unfinished Painting, 1985.
35/ Wholly Guacamole advertisement, modified.
36/ Cupcake Cassidy
37/ Charlotte Delbo and another of the 230, in prison in France. In his poem “Death Fugue,” written in 1944-45, the Romanian Jewish writer and labor camp survivor Paul Celan draws a stark opposition between two women: “Your golden hair Margareta / your ashen hair Shulamith.” With this juxtaposition of putatively Aryan and Jewish tresses (and names: Margareta is a long form of “Gretchen,” the name of the bonny blond Fräulein in Goethe’s “Faust”; Shulamith is the “black and comely” princess in the Song of Songs), he evokes the facile yet deadly racism of the Third Reich. By contrast, the 230 heroines of “A Train in Winter” transcended precisely such differences — and many more besides — to make common cause against the Nazis.
38/ Callipygian Venus.
39/ Isaac Cruikshank: Indecency, 1799.
40/ Kristen Stewart: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn. 2011.
41/ Thomas Rowlandson: Connoisseurs, 1799.
42/ James Tissot: The Circle of the Rue Royale, 1868.
Standing to the far right of the painting is Charles Haas, who years later would become one of Marcel Proust’s sources of inspiration for the character of Swann in Remembrance of Things Past.
43/ A Paris Bordello.
44/ Bertrand Bonello: House of Pleasures, 2011.
45/ Lucien Freud: Wasteground with Houses Paddington, 1970-2.
46/ Watteau: Mezetin, 1715 or 1717-9.
47/ Kitagawa Utamaro: Shunga, 1780-90.
48/ Marina Abramovic, quotes.
49/ Caravaggio: Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599.