Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session | Art & Object

Subscribe to our free e-letter!

Webform

I agree to be emailed

Auction

http://www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?lid=1&intsaleid=27246&saletitle=

Start Date

Thursday, November 16, 2017

End Date

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Venue

Christie's Auction House

City

Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session

Tags

contemporary art

Related Events

Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session

Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

The Collector: Silver,19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art

Stripped Bare: Photographs from the Collection of Thomas Koerfer

Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale

A&O Events Calendar

Features

Make Way for Ducklings

Public Art, Cultural Battlegrounds or Opportunities for Understanding?

Courtesy Lee Miller Archives

The Domesticity of Evil: Hitler’s Home in American Magazines Before and After the War

Collective house surrounded by sweet- potato leaves, Catrimani region

Who Speaks for the Yanomami? The ongoing Yanomami Struggle told through art

Matt Johnson, Untitled (Swan), 2016.

Public Art’s Major Role on a University Campus

View of Delft File:Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (1960-61)/ Mauritshuis, The Hague

Rijksmuseum Stages the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever

Webform

Subscribe for free art news updates

I agree to be emailed

Subscribe to our free e-letter!

Webform

I agree to be emailed

Sculpture

Wangechi Mutu,The End of carrying All, 2015 (still). 3-channel animated video, color, sound, 10:45 min.

Wangechi Mutu’s Magically Intertwined World

Phyllida Barlow, Creator of "Non-Monumental" Sculpture, Dies at 78

Hellenistic Sculpture: Realist Art in Ancient Greece

Latin American Art

Melchor Pérez Holguín, Pietà (detail), Bolivia, c. 1720.

Why the LACMA’s “Archive of the World” Catalogue Matters

Neo-Concretism: the short-lived but influential art movement

Pre-Columbian Latin America: The Chavín of Ancient Peru

Modern Art

LGDR, Rear View Installation Image

'Rear View': A Surprisingly Thoughtful Show on a Seemingly Humorous Subject

10 Surprising Facts about the Museum of Modern Art

Alexander Calder's Balancing Act in Art and Life

LGBTQ Artists

8 - self-portrait in the afternoon light, january 2019, puberty

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

6 Art World Events for Pride 2022

Gallery

Bisa Butler, Genevieve Hanson for the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.

Bisa Butler: The World Is Yours

3 Shows by Female Artists to See in NYC This Spring

“People are Strange”: A Conversation with George Condo

Auction

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Le Printemps, oil on canvas Estimate $250,000-350,000, Courtesy Christie’s

Masterpieces by Alma-Tadema, Moore, and Bouguereau to Headline Getty Collection Auction

Monet and the First Forays into Abstraction

Cubist Portrait of Picasso’s Daughter Could Fetch Over $15 Million

Asian Art

Radha and Hindu God Krishna Celebrating the Festival Holi (1800-1810). ink and color on paper.

Colors as Transgression in the Holi Festival

India's Statue of Unity is the World’s Tallest Statue, Here's Its Story

The Art of the Chinese New Year

Painting

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1852–55. Oil on canvas. 96 1:4 x 199 1:2 in. (244.5 x 506.7 cm). The Met. Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887. 87.25.

Why Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" is a Masterpiece of Realism

Artist Amir H. Fallah's Mesmerizing Portraits

In George Condo’s Mind at the Morgan Library

Ancient Art

Detail shot of a gold ear-stud: disc decorated with granulation, filigree and beaded wire. 530BC-500BC

Etruscan Jewelry and the Charm of Gold in Antiquity

Aeneas’s Journey in Ancient Italy

The Cabinet of Curiosities & Colonialism

Photography

Photo by Zoe Hamill, photographer and photography technician at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh

Developing Magic: Unlocking the Secrets of Darkrooms

Female Photographers Who Shaped the Way We Look at the World

In Conversation with William Kentridge

Contemporary Art

Exhibition View of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map

Creature Comfort: Animal Art in the Home

Pop Art: 6 Artists Other than Andy Warhol

Renaissance

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Red Hat, 1665-67, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Wikimedia Commons

Three New Theories on Vermeer, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh

The Dark Red Drama of Caravaggio

We Asked an AI What it Thought About Art. Here's What it Told Us

Women Artists

National Mall aerial view, Wikimedia Commons

Smithsonian Announces $55 Million Gift to American Women’s History Museum

Saartjie Baartman, Victorians, and the Bustle's Hidden History

5 Pioneering Women in Archaeology

Design

The entrance of the cemetery and the Famedio (at centre). Photo by Dani Vander Horst.

The Monumental Cemetery of Milan

Putting up Ancient Columns in Rome

New Excavations at Rome’s Colosseum

Museum

Aerial shot of the British Museum, London.

British Museum Cuts Ties with Fossil Fuel Giant BP

Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum Opens in June with Major Updates and Expansion

How Lucio Fontana's Slashed Canvases Changed Art History

Fair

tefaf

TEFAF Maastrict Dazzles with Old Masters, Gemstones, and Everything in Between

What to See at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

Jill Bokor Speaks About the Upcoming Salon Art + Design Fair

Drawing

Jordan Belson Brain Drawing, 1952 Ink on paper 7 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (19.8 x 19.8 cm) Estate of Jordan Belson, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

The Mystical Tradition: Drawings of Memory and Mystery at the Drawing Center

The History of Copying Art: A Learning Tool or a Cheat?

How Santa Claus Has Changed Throughout History

Black Artists

Nina Simone in 1965, Wikimedia Commons

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gains Support to Become a Historic Site

Hilton Als: The Pulitzer Winning Critic Discusses the Art of Curating

12 African American Artists You Should Know More About

Indigenous Art

Benjamin West, The Battle of La Hogue, c. 1778. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

9 Indigenous Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram

What’s the Deal with Christopher Columbus Monuments?

Antiques

courtesy of the Wagner Free Institute of Science overview shot of the gallery, which was taken professionally by David Graham

Wagner Science Museum: Step into 1855 with Contemporary Courses

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Edmund de Waal Reconstructs History in “The Hare with Amber Eyes”