10th International
Art Auction
Artesegno Auction House owes its growth in the market mainly through offers of International contemporary art, which is always on demand in Italy because of an attentive collectionism, prospects of investment and the presence of artists in International museums. The next auction holds a wide presence of well-known International artists forming a large selection of works of art.
The Cinabre work by George Mathieu, oil on canvas, 92x73 cm, of 1967, is an extreme representative creation of the so called Teacher of Informal: it belongs to one of his most important executive periods. Here emerges all his lyrical abstraction art and an energetic burst of vitality. The 60’s were the years of Mathieu’s records along with the charms of his works in the 50’s.
Amongst the informal, the works are very different by Vedova, Dova, Turcato and Scanavino, then on to the representative of the most conceptual works by Dadamaino, Bonalumi, Munari and Consagra, the New realism of Rotella and the Mec Art of Bertini.
The actionism is represented in this auction by an important group of Gutai works.
For example, a rare Crash Bottle in Osaka of 1991 by Shozo Shimamoto, oil and broken glass on canvas, 178x65 cm. This work is one of his earliest Crash Bottle as performed in 1991 (the paintings of the fifties were performed with his cannonball) in the early nineties the Master placed some large stones under the canvas facilitating its action to break the glass bottles, perfectly assimilating his concept of action painting. These works of art of this type have been performed only by him in the nineties and they are extremely rare.
Also very rare, is the work by Maekawa of 1962, 161x130 cm, oil on canvas, coming from a Japanese museum, the works of these large sizes were performed in full Gutai period (1955/72), they are now almost unobtainable on the market, the same thing applies to the painting of Uemae Chiyu of 1964, 180x90 cm, oil on canvas, coming from a prestigious source.
The International actionism is also firmly represented with works of art by Hermann Nitsch, one of the greatest living artist in the world, present in museums, particularly by two works of the eighties, an acrylic on canvas, 90x70 cm, 1984 and one with blood on canvas, 60x50 cm, OM Theatre in Vienna, it is also of great quality and mixed technique, tunic on canvas, 2005, 150x200 cm.
We also host several works of some of the most important contemporary Chinese artists with works of art strongly represented.
E' presente un'opera di Zhou Tiehai, artista Re della neo pop-art cinese, olio su tela, cm 150x104, con base di 20 mila euro (a fronte di una stima di 50 mila euro); l'opera è del 2004, cioè in assoluto una delle sue prime opere con soggetto francese e i suoi famosi uomini/donne cammello. Notevole qualitativamente l'opera di Zeng Hao, olio su tela, cm 130x150, con base d'asta di 19 mila euro; la stima di tale opera oggi è di oltre 50.000 Euro; anche Zeng Hao è presente in evidenza nell'attuale mostra di Palazzo Reale a Milano che espone i maggiori autori cinesi contemporanei ed è stato presente all'ultima Biennale di Venezia. In grande evidenza a Milano anche Ma Liuming, del quale in asta vi è un olio su tela, cm 200x150, 2005/06. Come si legge dal comunicato della mostra di Palazzo Reale, Milano, "Zeng Hao, Zhou Tiehai e Ma Liuming sono tra coloro che pongono al centro della propria poetica il consumismo contemporaneo e l'uomo (...) Le opere presenti documentano il susseguirsi dei movimenti artistici del primo decennio del XXI secolo. In questo periodo l'arte contemporanea di quest'area geografica rompe con gli schemi tradizionali del passato portando alla ribalta un linguaggio artistico che fa riferimento a quello occidentale ma che riesce a mantenere un forte legame con la tradizione e la cultura locale".
For the same topic in this auction, we suggest some other important works of Chinese artists, such as the painting by Sheng Qi, 150x200 cm, oil on canvas of 2008, Guanxi Piao, the oil on canvas by Li Dafang, and the triptych by Mao Huang Yan.
No lack of high quality works by the Americans James Brown and Donald Baechler.
A large collection of works by International neo-avant-garde artists with an extensive curriculum in International museums can be purchased at good prices with good prospects. Amongst those, for example, Nick Mauss, 29 years with several works exhibited at MOMA, Julie Becker, Stefan Hirsig, Armin Linke, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Luca Buvoli, Botto & Bruno, Isca Greenfield Sanders, Robert Gligorov, and many others. A significant collection of works by major International Street Art: Guy Denning (for example, see the work of Last Year's Colour), Lady Pink, Daze and Crash.
Well represented is the second Roman school of painting, particularly through a historical work of Domenico Bianchi
Finally the Italian neo-figurative paintings of the 90’s with great works of Cingolani, Pessoli, Cannavacciuolo, Davoli, Help, Pusole, Ragalzi, Mehrkens, Maggis and many others.
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