Post-War & Contemporary Art: Amsterdam

Christie’s Amsterdam is pleased to present Post-War & Contemporary Art, an online-only auction live for bidding from 10-26 November. The sale comprises lots across the entire post-war era, including works on paper, paintings and sculpture.

Reflecting the breadth of works offered in the Amsterdam live sale series, it will also offer works from two distinguished collections: Betty van Geest-van Garrel, an acclaimed Dutch journalist who wrote several books and interviewed artists for NRC Handelsblad, with works by, amongst others, Yayoi Kusama and Ernest van Zuylen, a supporter of the CoBra movement, with an exemplary painting by Corneille from 1949.

Classic post-war art forms the core of the auction, with a kinetic work by Gerhard von Graevenitz, an archetypical relief by Jan Schoonhoven and a honeycomb aluminium work by Heinz Mack.

The sale features a strong selection of works by the Neue Wilde, who, armed with boisterous humour and a devil-may-care attitude, partied hard, rejected standard aesthetic values and ridiculed the post-war excesses of their country, Germany. They held the staid, the minimal and the high-brow in contempt. They played fast and loose with symbol and subject matter. The group is represented by works from Martin Kippenberger, Albert and Marcus Oehlen and Georg Herold.

Highlights from the sale, amongst which works by Dutch and German artists, can be viewed in the gallery at the Christie’s Amsterdam office from Monday to Friday between 10am and 5pm, by appointment only.

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Post-War and Contemporary Art | Running Riot: The Neue Wilde painters