Sotheby’s New York 17 November 2016 Contemporary Art
Measuring 72 by 144 inches, Woldgate Woods, 24, 25, and 26 October 2006 is a monumental work by a pillar of post-war British art, David Hockney. Making use of six canvases, Woldgate Woods beautifully captures the light and color of the Yorkshire landscape. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in the 2012 blockbuster exhibition, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture , the sale of this large-scale painting comes ten years after Sotheby’s redefined the market for the artist with
The Splash .
With an estimate of $9/12 million, Sotheby’s is once again set to establish a new record for Hockney at auction.
Christie's 2016
Also leading the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction are three works by David Hockney, including his vivid celebration of light and colour
Beach Umbrella (1971, estimate: £1,000,000 – 1,500,000, pictured above).
Created during a highly productive period following the devastating end of the artist’s relationship with Peter Schlesinger, the work is also a powerful testament to the therapeutic power of paint. Its vibrant colours and rich, tactile surfaces demonstrate the solace Hockney found in the medium. Beach Umbrella was a highlight of Hockney’s landmark 1988 retrospective, which was shown to great acclaim at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Tate Modern in London.
Also offered for auction alongside Beach Umbrella are
Hockney’s Parade Curtain After Picasso (1980, estimate: £600,000 – 800,000), a jubilant tribute to his greatest artistic hero,
Parade, the curtain, tempera by Picasso. (the original)
and The Sea at Malibu (1988, estimate: £600,000 – 800,000, pictured above),
an example of his triumphant return to painting that year, and his continued reverence for Southern California where he had a studio in Malibu.
Sotheby's 2015
Sotheby’s May auctions of Contemporary Art will feature two works by David Hockney, both collected by Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
In Fruit in a Chinese Bowl (estimate $800,000/1.2 million), the still life – one of the most traditional genres of painting – becomes the arena for Hockney to reinterpret the lessons of Art History, from Pointillism to Cubism, within his own instantly-recognizable stylistic vernacular.
The landscape Malibu House (estimate $600/800,000) embodies the playfulness and charm that distinguishes Hockney’s work, while also demonstrating his engagement with art history and the impact of Los Angeles on his development. This picture dates to 1988: the year of his triumphant return to painting and his retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
David Hockney
ARRANGED FELLED TREES
Estimate
1,500,000
—
2,000,000
1,500,000
—
2,000,000
LOT SOLD. 2,165,000 GBP
Estimate
800,000
—
1,200,000
GBP
LOT SOLD.
700,000 USD
Christie's 2015
Christie's 2014
800,000
—
1,200,000
GBPChristie's 2015
Gregory in the Pool (Paper Pool 4)
PRICE REALIZED
£482,500
Steps with Shadow
PRICE REALIZED
£818,500
Christie's 2014
With Conversation
PRICE REALIZED
£1,650,500
(2007 - PRICE REALIZED £602,400)
Ravel's Garden 3
PRICE REALIZED
£578,500
Christie's 2013
Great Pyramid at Giza with Broken Head from Thebes
PRICE REALIZED
£3,513,250
Green Pool with Diving Board and Shadow
PRICE REALIZED
£881,250
Christie's 2010
Hedgerow Near Kilham, October 2005
PRICE REALIZED
$662,500
Christie's 2009
Beverly Hills Housewife
PRICE REALIZED
$7,922,500
White Building and Clouds
PRICE REALIZED
$662,500
Christie's 2008
A Table
PRICE REALIZED
£825,250
Big Landscape (Medium)
PRICE REALIZED
£361,250
Sotheby's 2014
LOT SOLD.
386,500 GBP
Sotheby's 2013
David Hockney
Double East Yorkshire (1998) had been estimated to sell for $3.1 million to $4.6 million and went to another telephone bidder for $5.3 million.
Sotheby's 2014
Sotheby's 2013
David Hockney
Double East Yorkshire (1998) had been estimated to sell for $3.1 million to $4.6 million and went to another telephone bidder for $5.3 million.
Sotheby's 2012
David Hockney's
''Swimming Pool,'' painted in 1965, went for £2.5 million at Sotheby's
in London, up from its 2007 price of £1.19 million.
David Hockney, Hotel L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime, 1968 (est. £1-1.5 million),
Sotheby's 2011
David Hockney, Hotel L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime, 1968 (est. £1-1.5 million),
