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WORKS FROM A DISTINGUISHED CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONChristie's is delighted to present a notable selection of international contemporary art from a Distinguished Contemporary Collection. Spanning across our upcoming Post-War and Contemporary auctions in London, New York and Paris, from First Open and Prints and Multiples, to Evening and Day Auctions including our Latin American Art sales, the extensive grouping offers a diverse wealth of works suited to all aesthetic palates. With nearly forty works from fifteen different and highly distinguished artists, the collection encompasses a stunning eclectic compendium of media, including oil painting, works on paper, sculpture, prints and photography, to mention but a few. Highlights include a number of eminent works by artists such as Gregor Schneider, Michael Sailstorfer, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Houseago and Maurizio Cattelan. Yet the unrivalled star of this show is Francis Alÿs. A seminal artist who has received outstanding critical acclaim, Alÿs is one of the most important living contemporary artists of our time. He has recently been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions including at David Zwirner London, in 2016, and the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, where his Fabiola Project is currently being displayed. His prolific oeuvre encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, video, drawing and performance art, displaying a versatile dexterity across a wide and extensive range of media. His art engages with the everday in unique and profound ways, renderiong the familiar strange as he unravels and explores the intricacies of human nature. He has self-described his practice as 'a sort of discursive argument composed of episodes, metaphors, or parables' and indeed his rich and dynamic work examines everything and beyond in contemporary life, from social and political tensions and contensions, to individual and collective memory and mythology (F. Alÿs, quoted in 'Reel-Unreel', press release, David Zwirner, New York, January 2013). The strength of this collection is testament to the superb taste of its collectors, and it represents a passionate and personal assemblage of works. But in the depth of its variety, the collection also serves as a powerful statement on the art of the last thirty years: it reflects a profound heterogeneous art landscape that is grappling with the explosion of possibilities inherited from the artistic revolutions of the twentieth century, while at the same time responding to the glut of images enabled by a world that is ever more globalised and technologically interconnected. Characterised by innovation and inventiveness, and imbued with a spirit of dynamic, responsive connoisseurship excited by the cutting-edge, this is a collection befitting its time.

Francis Alÿs (b. 1959)

The Liar / The Copy of the Liar

細節

Francis Alÿs (b. 1959)
The Liar / The Copy of the Liar
(i) signed, numbered and dated 'F. Alÿs 1994 1' (on the stretcher)
(ii) signed, numbered and dated 'F. Alÿs 1993 2' (on the reverse)
oil on card, in two parts
each: 16 x 22cm.
Painted in 1993-1994

來源

Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

出版

C. Lampert, Francis Alÿs, The Prophet and the Fly, exh. cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus, 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 13).
T. Vischer, Sign Painting Project - Francis Alÿs with Juan García, Emilio Rivera, Enrique Huerta, Basel 2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 112).

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. “ ! ”: Lot is imported from outside the EU. For each Lot the Buyer’s Premium is calculated as 37.75% of the Hammer Price up to a value of €30,000, plus 31.7% of the Hammer Price between €30,001 and €1,200,000, plus 22.02% of any amount in excess of €1,200,000.

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