BartaArt Booklet Mai 2021 by BartaMAI

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Artists Carlos Aires Jamie Baldridge Jean-Michel Basquiat Louise Bourgeois Olaf Breuning Romero Britto Roberta Busato Campana Brothers Christo James Clar Plamen Dejanoff Josef Fischnaller Barry Flanagan Antonio Girbés Rodney Glick Martin Grandits Helmut Grill Béla Iványi Grünwald Damien Hirst Josef Hoflehner Jörg Immendorff Isaac Julien Zenita Komad Jop Kunneke Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg Robert Longo Roxanne Lowit André Maire Fausto Melotti

Harland Miller Joan Miró Takashi Murakami Helmut Newton Pablo Picasso Cathie Pilkington Rudolf Polanszky Robert Polidori Larry Rivers Bunny Rogers Hubert Scheibl Gerlinde Thuma Tomak Laszlo Toth Endre Vadasz André Villers Andy Warhol Franz West Erwin Wurm Paul Yore Marco Zanuso

Artworks African Mask African Punu Mask African Sculpture Bronze Sculpture Bust of an African Khoikhoi Egyptian Portrait Statuette Figure of a Boy Figure of a Priest, Egypt Floor Lamp in the Style of Edgar Brandt Greek Hydria Large Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite Narwhal Tusks Neon Sign Portrait of a Girl Portrait of a Lady Roman Torso Serapis Stone Sculpture, Egyptian Sumerian Relief Terracotta Group of Cupid and Psyche Thai Buddha Figure Vase by Artel

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Carlos Aires Born 1974, Ronda, Andalucía, Spain Lives and works in Madrid, Spain Spanish artist Carlos Aires initally comes from Anadalucía but works and lives in Madrid. He studied fine art in Granada, Spain, before moving on to further study in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and the USA, before receiving his PhD from Granada.

E D U CAT I O N a n d RE S I D E N CI E S 2004–2008 PhD in Fine Art, Faculty of Fine Art Alonso Cano, Granada, Spain 2004–2005 MA in Photography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 2001–2003 HISK (Hoger Institute Schone Kunsten), Antwerp, Belgium 2000–2001 De Pont Atelier, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 1997–2000 Master in European Arts and Cultures, Leicester University, UK, and AVB, Tilburg, NL 1992–1997

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Bachelor in Fine Art, sculpture department, Faculty of Fine Art Alonso Cano, Granada, Spain

Carlos Aires

‘Let’s get lost‘ 2011 220 x 140 x 30 cm (86.61 x 55.12 x 11.81 in.)

Jamie Baldridge Born 1975, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA Lives and works in Louisiana, USA Jamie Baldridge was raised in a very conservative, strict and traditional Creole Catholic household in the southernmost part of Louisiana. He decided to become an artist at an early age after discovering a picture book entitled 101 Fairy Tales while rummaging through his grandmother‘s attic. He went on to study creative writing, theology and fine-art photography at Louisiana State University where he received both his Bachelor and Master of Fine Art degrees. He is currently a professor of fine art at the University of Louisiana. Baldridge has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the CARBON12 Dubai and Honolulu Museum of Art. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‚The Starvation of Czar Nicholas‘ sold at Bonhams Dubai in 2011 for $6,600. Several articles were written about Jamie Baldridge, including ‚5 new artists to join BR Gallery‘, for 2theadvocate.com in 2014.

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Jamie Baldridge ‘The Socrates Safe Co.‘ 2009 Pigment print edition 1/7 170 x 122 cm (66.93 x 48.03 in.)

Jean-Michel Basquiat Born 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA Died 1988, Manhattan, New York, USA Jean Michel Basquiat was one of the most important American artists of the 20 th century. He first achieved notoriety during the 1970s as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan where the hip hop, post-punk and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. Basquiat‘s art focused on ‚suggestive dichotomies‘, such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting and married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and mixed historical information with contemporary critique. Basquiat used social commentary in his paintings as a ‚springboard to deeper truths about the individual‘, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle. He died of a heroin overdose in his art studio at the age of 27. BARTA ARTS

Jean-Michel Basquiat

‘Crayon on paper‘ 1981 Signed & dated Edition: unique 25,7 x 29,5 cm (25.7 x 11.6 in.)

Louise Bourgeois Born 1911, Paris, France Died 2010, New York City, USA Louise Bourgeois is a French-born sculptor known for her monumental and often biomorphic works that deal with the relationship between male and female virtue, characteristically abstract and of emotional and autobiographical nature. Born to a family of tapestry weavers, Bourgeois made her first drawings to assist her parents in their restoration of ancient tapestries. She attended the Sorbonne, where she studied mathematics. At age 25 she changed her focus to art, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the studio of Fernand Léger, and in 1938 she married and returned with her American husband, the art historian Robert Goldwater, to New York City. There she began exhibiting her distinctly surrealist paintings and engravings. In the late 1940s she began to experiment with sculptural forms, producing a series of long, lean wooden shapes. She was in contact with European artists in New York such as Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, and Joan Miró. In 2000, following a decade of international exhibitions and awards, the Tate Gallery of Modern Art commissioned Bourgeois for the inaugural installation of the museum’s new location at the Turbine Hall of the Bankside Power Station. The sculptor retained her vitality and creativity well into her 90s. At the turn of the 21st century, she created a steel-andmarble spider, an iconic work from which six monumental bronze versions were cast in 2003. In 2008, the French Legion of Honour medal was presented to Bourgeois by President Nicolas Sarkozy in the artist’s Chelsea home. BARTA ARTS

Louise Bourgeois ‘Those are mine because they are my mother’s’ 59,4 x 70 cm (23 x 28 in.)

Olaf Breuning Born 1970, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Lives and works in Kerhonkson, New York Cultural satire has driven Olaf Breuning’s work since the early ’90s. Originally having pursued a professional education as a photographer in Winterthur and later in Zurich, swiss-born Olaf Breuning may nowadays be considered somewhat of a multi-media artist, creating not only photographic, but also video, sculptural, and performance art, in addition to installations and illustrations. For many of his art works, the artist employs a combination of those practices to create humorous pieces that force the viewer to distinguish between reality and fiction. As a spatial artist, dedicated to the aesthetic treatment of space, Breuning creates unique theatrical atmospheres using a mixture of sound, video projection and light. To fully appreciate Breuning’s work, “you have to know that the Swiss sense of humour tends to be more wacky and absurd and the jokes more subtle and less vicious,” writes Alain Bieber in the introduction to Olaf Breuning (2016). His installation pieces have been featured in numerous museums and are owned by collections internationally. Typically, Breuning’s work investigates kitsch, appropriation, cliché, and popular culture, hinting at a collective visual iconography. Breuning’s unique mode of pastiche is eclectic by design, drawing icons from sources both high and low, Edvard Munch to Andy Warhol's famed multiples to the Easter Bunny. BARTA ARTS

Olaf Breuning ‘Pigs in my head’ 2016 Hand painted ceramics 29 x 19 x 29 cm (11.5 x 7.5 x 11.5 in.)

Romero Britto Born 1963, Recife, Brazil Lives and works in Miami, Florida, USA Romero Britto is a painter, sculptor, Neo-Pop artist, and screen printer. His art has several different influences, including Pop Art, Cubism, and graffiti art. His particular style is often said to be warm, filled with love and optimism and Britto himself sees his art as a force for change. He is self-taught and, in 1983, he discovered two of his great influences, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, on a trip to Paris. One of the artist’s first commissions was from Michel Roux, the founder of Absolut Vodka’s Absolut Art ad campaign. Britto was asked to change the look of the bottle for an ad campaign that would be seen by millions all over the world. This exposure led to a number of other high-profile advertising commissions, including working for the UN. In January of 2010, he created the logo for Save Haiti Saturday, which was a nationwide fundraiser for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. And in the same year, he was commissioned to create the official World Cup poster for FIFA. Britto currently owns a gallery in Miami, but his work can be seen all over the world. He has published works through Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli and some of his public installation locations include Hyde Park in London, the Cirque du Soleil at Super Bowl XLI, John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, and the O2 Dome in Berlin. BARTA ARTS

Romero Britto ‘My Gift‘ Mixed Media Height 32 cm (12.6 in.) Signed on pedestal U. num.: 15/100

Roberta Busato Born 1976, Verona, Italy Lives and works in Mantova and Pietrasanta, Italy Born in Verona in 1976, Roberta Busato obtained her artistic maturity in Verona in 1996, followed by a degree in painting at the Academy of Fine Art in Carrara in 2004 under Omar Galliani. During her academic development she embarked on a collaboration with the theatre company Societas Raffaello Sanzio from Cesena, seeking to integrate design with sculpture and theatre. More recently, through her ability to develop the work of art through the use of different media such as pictorial works, photographic works and video, the artist investigated the plastic material as a source of inspiration. More specifically, her discovery of raw earth as primordial matter now defines her portraiture work as a sculptor, typically involving a combination of earth and straw. Busato’s works have been chosen for group exhibitions and have received numerous recognitions and awards. Some works have been selected by the AJAC for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Castel San Pietro in Bologna with the curator Guido Molinari; in Venice at Scalamata Gallery; the "Biennale of Contemporary Art in San Martino" dell'Argine where she was awarded the first prize; to "Cocoon Award"; the house of Mantegna in Mantova for the exhibition "GAM" curated by Vincenzo Denti and Gianfranco Ferlisi. She lives and works in Mantova and Pietrasanta. BARTA ARTS

Roberta Busato ‘Numen I’ 2019 20 x 20 x 55 cm (8 x 8 x 21.6 in.)

Camapana Brothers Humberto Campana, b. 1953 & Fernando Campana, b. 1961 Created in 1984 in Sao Paulo by Fernando (1961) and Humberto (1953), Estudio Campana is recognized for its furniture design and intriguing pieces. Currently, the studio operates in the areas of architecture, landscaping, scenography, fashion as well as special projects and commissions. The São Paulo-based studio is being acknowledged internationally as pioneers of disruptive design, which led them to create a ground-breaking language in their field. Proudly rooted in Brazilian culture and traditions, their work carries universal values in its core, such as freedom and human dignity, through the search of our identity from life experiences. Their creative process raises everyday materials to nobility, bringing not only creativity to design but also Brazilian characteristics – the colours, the mixtures, the creative chaos – the triumph of simple solutions, in an artistic and poetic way. Campana pieces are part of permanent collections of renowned cultural institutions such as Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, MoMa, New York, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.

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Camapana Brothers ‘Aleijadinho’ Candelabra 2011 Gilt bronze, marble 78 x 43 cm (30.7 x 16.9 in.)

Christo Born 1935, Gabrowo, Bulgaria Died 2020, New York City, NY Christo attended the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, and had begun working with the Burian Theatre in Prague when the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 broke out. He fled to Vienna, where he studied for a semester, and then, after a brief stay in Switzerland, moved to Paris and began exhibiting his works with the nouveaux réalistes. While working there as a portrait artist, Christo met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, whom he married in 1959. Jeanne-Claude was once described as her husband’s publicist and business manager, but she later received equal billing with him in all creative and administrative aspects of their work. In 1964 the pair relocated to New York City, where their art was seen as a form of Arte Povera, an Italian art movement that challenged conventional art elitism through experiments with everyday materials. Christo’s earliest sculptures were composed of cans and bottles, which he had painted or wrapped in paper, plastic, or fabric. Famously, he applied the latter to a much larger, architectural scale, wrapping whole buildings or monuments in beige cloth, perhaps most prominently and ambitiously the Reichstag Building in Berlin (1995) or Pont-Neuf in Paris (1985). More recent projects, concerned with landscapes and the interaction with the natural environment, include The Floating Piers (2016) in which Christo connected two islands in Lake Iseo, Italy, via a floating saffron-coloured walkway that stretched 1.86 miles. Throughout his career, Christo redefined the parameters of installation and land art, leaving behind a body of work that defies categorization and recognizes no limit to possibility. With a practice supported through the sale of his personal drawings and architectural models, the artists realized ideas that sound entirely fantastical until carried through. BARTA ARTS

Christo ‘Sydney Opera House Wrapped’

James Clar Born 1979, USA Lives and works in New York, USA James Clar is an artist who uses technology as a medium to critique the dissociative effects of a media-saturated and technologically integrated world. His work uses controlled, artificial light as a sculptural medium with a computer-minimalist aesthetic to draw attention to the increasingly blurred separation between concrete reality and one which is computer-generated. However, his subject matter offsets these data-driven techniques by dealing with (and in a way ‘digitizing’) natural phenomena, human emotions, or the socio-political environment we live in. After studying film and animation at New York University he came to view televisions as light systems with their own medium. Moving away from this, he started to develop his own visual systems by controlling and manipulating light itself. These light works became a physical extension of the pixel beyond the screen, creating three-dimensional sculptural form. He has exhibited widely, including shows in New York, Tokyo, London, Berlin and Hong Kong.

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James Clar ‘Happiness is Expensive‘ Fluorescent lights, acrylic 55 x 90 cm (21.65 x 35.43 in.) Gallery Carbon 12, 19.12.2011

Plamen Dejanoff Born 1970, Sofia, Bulgaria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria In his objects, installations and spatial designs, Plamen Dejanoff moves between conceptual art and the world of pop; he stages various levels of meaning as a game of deception and forms the surface of things so as to reveal hidden qualities, though it is not his intention to entice the viewer with single objects. Instead Dejanoff wishes to manipulate the view of the person vis-à-vis to enable the discovery herself of things in a bright spectrum of history and contradiction. The range of meanings of the artistic product in the relation between aesthetics and ethics is the driving force for Dejanoff’s process-oriented method of working. From 1993 to 1998 Dejanoff studied at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna under Michelangelo Pistoletto. Between 1996 and 2000 the artist collaborated with Svetlana Heger. Some of his solo exhibitions took place at the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR (2012), at the MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, IT (2012), at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE (2011), and at the MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2006).

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Plamen Dejanoff ‘The bronze house’ 2010 Black clay 100 x 70 x 75 cm (39 x 28 x 30 in.)

Josef Fischnaller Born 1964, Grieskirchen, Austria Lives and works in Berlin Son of a reputable painter and sculptor, Josef Fischnaller grew up with an artistic mindset early on in his life, subsequently shaping his professional career as a photographer. Soon after finishing his education, Fischnaller opened his first Gallery in 1987 in Vienna and his first exhibition in 1988. Upon moving to Berlin in 2000, his work started to become recognized more internationally with galleries in New York and Miami featuring the artist. While he primarily focused on fashion photography in the early stages of his artistic development, Fischnaller gradually became more interested in capturing some of the many reputable faces involved in contemporary theatre productions and opera performances, typically depicting them in full regalia. Drawing inspiration from the oeuvre of Flemish old masters as well as paintings of the Renaissance, his stylized character portraits brilliantly capture the mysterious and dramatic appeal of the aesthetic ideal of a past era.

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Josef Fischnaller ‘Königin’ Portrait c-print on dibond 40 x 102 cm (15.7 x 40 in.)

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Josef Fischnaller ‘Die Zwei’ Double portrait c-print on dibond 140 x 110 cm (55 x 43 in.)

Barry Flanagan Born 1941, Prestatyn, Wales, UK Died 2009, Santa Eulalia del Rio, Ibiza, Spain Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 in Prestatyn, North Wales. From 1957 to 1958 he studied architecture at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts. He studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London from 1964 to 1966 and from 1967 to 1971 he taught both at Saint Martin’s and at the Central School of Art and Design. Flanagan died on 31 August 2009 of motor neurone disease. He was the subject of a biographical film by Peter Bach, The Man Who Sculpted Hares. Works Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell, London, 1988 Large Mirror Nijinski, 1993, with two hares, is displayed in the Skulpturen Park Köln, Cologne, Germany Thinker on a Rock is in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC The hare statue Large Left-Handed Drummer was on display in Union Square (New York City) park from 18 February to 24 June 2007 Tate Britain held a retrospective show Early Works 1965–1982 from September 2011 to January 2012. This exhibition contained many examples of his less well known pieces using materials such as cloth and rope, as well as some of the early bronze hare sculptures for which he became famous. At an exhibition held by Sotheby’s at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, in September–October 2012, 15 of Flanagan’s works were shown in a parkland setting. They included Large Nijinski on Anvil Point and Nijinski Hare placed at opposite ends of the Canal Pond. BARTA ARTS

Barry Flanagan ‘Mirage II‘ 1994 Etching 36 x 31 cm (14.7 x 12.2 in.)

Antonio Girbés Born 1952, Valencia, Spain Lives and works in Valencia, Spain At the end of the 1970s, Girbés moved to Paris to complete his professional training. He studied at the prestigious American School of Photography under Jocelyn Karger, Art Director of Condé Nast. There he met a number of major artists who would have a significant influence on his work, including Wolf Reinhardt, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Horst P. Horst. He worked as an assistant for the latter in 1980. He was chosen by Achille Bonito Oliva for the first Valencia Biennial. In 2006 he took part in the 10th Venice Architecture Biennial in an exhibition produced and curated by Ivorypress entitled C on Cities. His work has been displayed in New York, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Moscow and Tokyo, and also features in many private and public collections, including the Estée Lauder Foundation, the Billy Collection, those of Gianni Agnelli, Egon von Fürstenberg and Guido Orsi, and also in La Caixa Foundation and the Musée de l’Elysée.

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Antonio Girbés ‘Rosenstilleben‘ (Roses Still Life) Oil on canvas 89 x 89 cm (35.04 x 35.04 in.)

Rodney Glick Born 1961, Australia Lives and works in Australia Rodney Albert Glick is an Australian artist. He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions. His Everyone sculptures present ordinary people as multi-armed, multi-headed deities in yogic poses and holding symbolic attributes. Glick seems to be making the point that just as the Hindu gods possess human frailties, we possess a god-like capacity for love, courage and vengeance. July 3–September 6, 2015 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitz, Australia May 30–July 11, 2015 Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, Australia August 31–October 13, 2013 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia August 13–September 7, 2011 Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, Australia July 8, 2011–April 1, 2012, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

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Rodney Glick

‘Lucky Boy‘ Wood, painted 38,5 cm (15.16 in.)

Martin Grandits Born 1982, Vienna, Austria Lives and works in Vienna Soon after finishing his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the work of Vienna- based artist Martin Grandits was represented during Berlin Art Week as well as Parallel Vienna art fair. Grandits draws inspiration from the aesthetic of the mundane. Ordinary objects that we encounter in our everyday lives are typically the root of his creative ideas, which the artist may then form into sculptural pieces or print on mediums such as t-shirts and other fabric undergrounds besides canvases. Typically guarded by his critical view and nuanced sense of humour, Grandits’ work distinctively showcases influences of both pop culture and his art historic knowledge, combining them to make bold statements on societal issues. While his pieces may seem light-heartedly ironic at first sight, the artist masterfully navigates around the borders of profanity and sobriety, while at the same time not losing sight of what he aims to convey beyond the superficial glance. The artist currently lives in Vienna where he continues to expand his artistic body of work.

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Martin Grandits ‘LKS’ Bronze sculpture

Helmut Grill Born 1965, Salzburg, Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria The Austrian artist Helmut Grill was born in Salzburg but lives and works in Vienna. He began work as a digital manipulator for advertising, but since 1991 has dedicated himself to fine art. During his artistic career Grill has experimented with a variety of materials in different techniques: he has worked with natural rubber in combination with metal, cladobjects with liquid rubber, and he has manipulated digital photos and created virtual landscapes. With his series ‘Refugees’, he also moved into threedimensional work. Over the last 20 or so years his works have been shown at over 80 international exhibitions, festivals and fairs. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘23. Dec. 2004 (AFTER ASTARTE)’ sold at Phillips, New York, for $ 6,250 in 2010.

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Helmut Grill 20,5 x 31,5 cm (8.07 x 12.4 in.)

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Helmut Grill 20,5 x 31,5 cm (8.07 x 12.4 in.)

Béla Iványi Grünwald (Iványi Grünwald Béla) Born 1867, Somogysan, Hungary Died 1940, Budapest, Hungary A Hungarian painter and one of the founders of the Nagybánya artists ‘colony, Grünwald studied at the School of Design in Budapest, at Simon Hollósy’s private school in Munich and at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1889 on he was a leading figure in the Hungarian arts community. In 1894 he visited Egypt and he painted a huge historical work, Tatárjárás (Invasion of the Tatars) in 1896 to commemorate Hungary’s millennium. In the same year he settled in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare, Romania). He was one of the first plain air painters in Hungary and his art was strongly influenced by the style of his friend Károly Ferenczy. His Nagybánya paintings depict Hungarian scenes, often with figures in costumes. In 1904 he received a scholarship to work in Rome. Starting in 1907 Grünwald began to distance himself from the naturalistic style of his Nagybánya paintings, and he moved to the artists’ colony in Kecskemét. In 1920 he started painting impressionist landscapes. His famous works include Bércek között (1901; Between Peaks) and Itatás (1902; Watering).

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Béla Iványi Grünwald ‘Blühende Bäume‘ (Trees in Bloom) Oil on wood 47 x 67 cm (18.5 x 26.38 in.) Signed on right

Damien Hirst Born 1965, Bristol, UK Lives and works in London, Gloucestershire, and Devon Known for his cutting-edge installations and statement pieces, British artist Damien Hirst infamously does not shy away from the provocative power of art. As a painter and conceptual artist, some of his most prominent works address the themes of vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, technology, and mortality. Regarded as an enfant terrible of the artist Marcel Duchamp, Hirst employed ready-made objects to shocking effect, forcing his viewers to question the very nature of art. Hirst began his artistic career as a painter and assemblagist. From 1986 to 1989 he attended Goldsmiths College in London. During this time, he curated an influential student show, “Freeze,” which was attended by the British advertising mogul and notorious art collector Charles Saatchi. The exhibition showcased the work of a group of Hirst’s classmates who later became known as the successful Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s. Hirst’s reputation as both an artist and a provocateur quickly soared. His diamond-studded platinum-cast human skull entitled For the Love of God, represented as a print in this collection, may currently hold the title of the most expensive work of art ever created. Most of his works were given elaborate titles to underscore his general preoccupation with mortality. In 1995 Damien Hirst won Tate Britain’s Turner Prize, Great Britain’s premier award for contemporary art. BARTA ARTS

Damien Hirst ‘Blühende Bäume‘ (Trees in Bloom) Oil on wood 47 x 67 cm (18.5 x 26.38 in.) Signed on right

Josef Hoflehner Born 1955, Wels, Austria Lives and works in Austria Josef Hoflehner is an Austrian photographer known for his dramatic black-and-white landscape and subtle colour images. He is also known for the “Jet Airliner” series, which features mostly high-key photographs of low-flying passenger planes over a public beach on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten. He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007 and named as one of Austria’s 10 Best Contemporary Artists in 2014. His works are regularly exhibited in, among other cities, New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, London.

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Josef Hoflehner

‘Bondi Baths‘ 2011 Archival carbon print on aluminium 111 x 145 cm (43.7 x 57.09 in.) Edition: 1/9

Jörg Immendorff Born 1945, Bleckede, Germany Died 2007, Düsseldorf, Germany Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor. The Estate of Jörg Immendorff is represented by the Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London and Märkisch Wilmersdorf. From 1963, Immendorff studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf (the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf). In 1989, he became professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and in 1996 he became professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf (the same school that had dismissed him as a student). Immendorff was a member of the German art movement Neue Wilde. In 1997, he won the best endowed art prize in the world, the MARCO prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico. In the following year he received the merit medal (Bundesverdienstkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was a friend and the favourite painter of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who chose Immendorff to paint the official portrait of Schröder for the Bundeskanzleramt. The portrait, which was completed by Immendorff’s assistants, was revealed to the public in January 2007; the massive work has an ironic character, showing the former Chancellor in a stern heroic pose, in the colours of the German flag, painted in the style of an icon, surrounded by little monkeys. These ‘painter monkeys’ were a recurring theme in Immendorff’s work, serving as an ironic commentary on the artist’s business.

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Jörg Immendorff ‘Affe zur Umarmung‘ (M12) 2005 Cast-bronze black/green Height 15 cm (5.91 in.) Edition: 7/12 Inventory number: IMMEN 10091

Isaac Julien Born 1960, London, UK Lives and works London, UK Filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien was born in the East End of London as one of five children when his parents had migrated from Santa Lucia to Britain. Julien graduated from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film. His passion for the motion picture artform led the artist to co-found Sankova Film and Video Collective two years earlier, in 1983, dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience. One of the objectives of Julien's work is to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic mediums, drawing from and commenting on film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting these disciplines to construct a powerful visual narrative. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic genres to create a poetic and unique visual language. Thematically, much of his work directly relates to experiences of black and gay identity, including issues of class, sexuality, and artistic and cultural history. Over the years, some of the most prestigious museums, festivals, and international art fairs across the world hosted his solo exhibitions and presentations. Julien’s work is currently held in collections that include the Tate, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; to name a few. Julien currently divides his time living and working in London, England and Santa Cruz, California, where he is the distinguished professor of the arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). BARTA ARTS

Isaac Julien ‘Cyborg #4 Indigo’ (Radioactive Series) 2018 Collage of solvent inkjet-print on foil mounted on aludibond 84 x 110 cm (33 x 43 in.)

Zenita Komad Born 1980, Klagenfurt, Austria Lives and works in Vienna Zenita Komad, born in Klagenfurt, studied stage design and graphics at Vienna University of Applied Arts and started her solo career in 2002. Her international exposure the artist achieved through exhibitions in Chicago, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and Beijing, among others. All of her works are created based on what people go through, what is happening, and how people change, according to her own words. The artist was influenced by society, the new generation and disasters that are currently happening in the world. Komad wants her viewers to be able to open their mind to what is happening around them; she wants to send a message and to awaken people’s attention. She believes that if people focus more on the environment rather than their personal life, they will be able to change the world. “We have to feel more what the other needs”, said Komad, “and take care [of] the others more than for ourselves”. Many of her works are characterized by the use of ready-made objects and prints, which are combined through the application of mixed-media elements, such as ink, paint or coloured threads through which the individual pieces are connected with each other to create a singular piece.

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Zenita Komad ‘do you take yourself serious’ 2009 Wooden relief, painted

Jop Kunneke Born 1974, Johannesburg, South Africa Through an anthology that is both playful and thought-provoking, Kunneke seeks to make bold statements about the interconnectedness of man and his surroundings. His tongue-in-cheek humour, full of comment and contradiction, satirizes the human condition by exposing the socio-economic and political powers that shape it. This discussion is typically centred around images of the natural world, contemporary popular culture and works in multiple media. Kunneke studied fine art and majored in sculpture. Living and working in Cape Town, his work has received critical acclaim and has been exhibited in various group and solo shows. His work forms part of private collections within South Africa and internationally. Kunneke is featured in the collection of Everard Read Galleries. Established in 1913, Everard Read is Africa’s oldest commercial art gallery and presents modern and contemporary art from South Africa.

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Jop Kunneke ‘Bushmeat’ 2009 Mixed media and aluminum sculpture with gold leaf Edition of 20 120 x 120 x 45 cm (47 x 47 x 17.7 in.)

Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg Born 1955, am Gründberg, Linz, Upper Austria Lives and works in Bubendorf, Austria From 1976 to 1980 the Austrian artist Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg studied at the University of Applied Arts with Bazon Brock and Oswald Oberhuber. In 1980 he had his first exhibition at the Galerie Otto Beyvl in Linz. In 1986 he moved to a studio and apartment in Bubendorf from where he still works. His first exhibition in the USA was in 2014, when a solo exhibition was held at Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, New York. His work has been shown in many European cities including Vienna, Paris and Munich.

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Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg Oil on canvas with gold leaf 76 x 66 cm (29.92 x 25.98 in.)

Robert Longo Born 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA Lives and works in New York, USA Sculptor, painter and draftsman Robert Longo is well known for his bold drawings and sculptural works fusing pop culture and fine art. His love of pop culture, cartoons and print media as a child later significantly influenced his art. Longo attended the University of North Texas in Denton before deciding to study sculpture back in New York and going on to study at SUNY Buffalo. After establishing a cooperative gallery in Buffalo during his college years, he joined a circle of underground artists working in New York City in the early 1980s. He created both drawings and sculptures examining issues of masculinity, power, mass media and urban lifestyles. He has been critically recognized for works such as his Men in the Cities series, featuring men and women in business attire shown contorted in odd poses, and his depictions of American flags painted over in black. Work from the Men in the Cities series is prominently featured in the apartment of fictional character Patrick Bateman in the film American Psycho. Longo’s work has been included in the Whitney Biennial in New York, documenta in Kassel, and the Venice Biennale, among many other prestigious exhibitions.

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Robert Longo ‘Bruce‘ 2014 Edition 33 of 35 Edition 34 of 35 Pigment Print 52,7 x 78,7 cm (20.7 x 30.9 in.) Signed and numbered

Roxanne Lowit Born in New York, USA Lives and works in New York, USA Roxanne Lowit started out as a fashion designer and quickly latched on to the world of glamour. Although initially an outsider, she plunged into the glittering world of show business until she became an accepted member of the glitterati in her own right. As the founder of backstage photography, she was soon adopted by the stars as one of their own and today she is the grande dame of celebrity photography, ever present with her expressive illustrations at glamour events and VIP parties. In some of her most remarkable work, she took pictures in New York’s legendary Studio 54 and in Le Palace in Paris, capturing the remarkable and unconventional world of glamour in masterly fashion. Roxanne Lowits works are on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Kobe Fashion Museum, as well as being the object of numerous solo exhibitions all over the world, in New York, Paris, Monte Carlo, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf and Berlin.

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Roxanne Lowit ‘Salvador Dali‘ Photo Edition 2/11 84 x 48 cm (33.07 x 18.9 in.)

André Maire Born 1898, Paris, France Died 1984, Paris, France André Maire was a French visual artist who became known as a peintre-voyageur (painter-traveller). He was a pupil of André Devambez at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also of Émile Bernard, who was a great influence on his life and art. In 1917 he was drafted into the French Army. He served in Indochina and while doing his military duty also taught drawing at the French Lycée in Saigon. He made a number of trips to the temples of Angkor, which he often painted. In 1922, Maire married Bernard’s daughter, Irène. During his long life he also lived and worked in Italy, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka and Africa, and is well known for his depictions of these places. An exhibition of his drawings of Africa and Asia was held at the Musée des Années 30 in BoulogneBillancourt in 2001. His work is found in the permanent collection of that museum, as well as in that of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. In 1922, Maire travelled to Italy with his mentor, friend, and father-in-law, Emile Bernard. After touring and studying art in a number of Italian cities, they settled in Venice and opened a small gallery/studio on the Campo delle Gatte. It was during this stay that Maire made these works. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Cornacs devant Hindh’ which sold at the ‘Tableaux XIXème et Modernes’ Aguttes, Neuilly, in 2010 for $ 84,275.

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André Maire ‘Elefanten‘ (Elephants) Gouache on paper 63,5 x 48,5 cm (25 x 19.09 in.)

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‘Mädchen beim Baden‘ (Bathing Girls) Gouache on paper 50 x 63 cm (19.69 x 24.8 in.)

Fausto Melotti Born 1901, Rovereto, Trento, Italy Died 1986, Milan, Italy Fausto Melotti was an Italian painter and sculptor well known for his thin brass sculptures and small ceramics. During his early life he became aware of the work of Renaissance artists, something which would profoundly influence his art. In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa, subjects that he continued to study at the Politecnico in Milan, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1924. During this period he studied the piano and took up the study of sculpture in Turin under the artist Pietro Canonica. In 1928 he enrolled in the Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he was the pupil of Adolfo Wildt and where he met Lucio Fontana, with whom he formed a long friendship. Both artists would play an important role in the abstract art movement in Milan. Melotti’s first exhibition was held at the Galleria del Milione in Milan in 1935. Inspired by his engineering background, Melotti’s abstract sculptures in brass and plaster fuse elements from nature, geometry and music. Following the Second World War, Melotti began incorporating the human figure into his work. In addition, Melotti also created small ceramic stage sets, known as teatrini. In 1951, Melotti received the Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale. He held a number of solo exhibitions throughout his career, at venues such as the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, the Marlborough Gallery in Zurich, the Palazzo Reale in Milan, and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome. Posthumous exhibitions have been held at the Kodama Gallery in Osaka, the Paolo Baldacci Gallery in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art at Grand Hornu in Belgium, and the Museo d’Arte Lugano. Shortly after his death, Melotti was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. BARTA ARTS

Fausto Melotti 65 x 39 cm (25.59 x 15.35 in.)

Harland Miller Born 1964, Yorkshire, UK Lives and works in London, UK Harland Miller is an artist and writer who has contributed to both the abstract and figurative movements of the 21st century. Miller earned his BA and MA in Art History from the Chelsea College of Art in London, UK. After receiving his degrees, Miller travelled extensively throughout the UK, Germany and the United States. Miller has lived and exhibited his work in New York, Berlin, and New Orleans. In 2000, Miller achieved critical acclaim for his first novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty, which featured a young boy who travels around England on a series of adventures accompanied by a David Bowie impersonator. In 2001, the artist painted a series of paintings based on Penguin classic dust covers. In this series, Miller combined Pop Art, abstraction, and figurative styles. He continues to create works in this theme. Miller was named the Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, in 2002, and, in 2008, Miller was the curator of an exhibition to celebrate the birth of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe has been a consistent source of inspiration for Miller’s work. The exhibition was housed in two separate venues in London. Miller’s solo exhibitions include shows at the White Cube in London, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. BARTA ARTS

Harland Miller ‘Too Cool to Lose‘ 2012 Edition 13/14 Silkscreen on Somerset paper 63,5 x 45,5 cm (25 x 17.91 in.)

Joan Miró Born 1893, Barcelona, Spain Died 1983 in Palma, Majora, Spain Catalan artist Joan Miró spent a few years in technical school as a teenager before he began his artistic career. He trained at Francisco Galí’s Escola d’Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915, after which he had his first solo show in Barcelona at the gallery of José Dalmau in 1918. Starting in 1920, Miró divided his time between Montroig, Spain and Paris, where he met poets such as Max Jacob, and took part in Dada activities. Dalmau organized a solo show for Miró in Paris at the Galerie la Licorne in 1921, and during the early 1920s Miró became involved with the surrealist movement. The abstract nature of his works, such as The Birth of the World (1925) blended well with the dream-like ambiance of surrealism. After a trip to the Netherlands in 1928, Miró created the series Dutch Interiors, in which amorphous forms became a prominent part of his work. On October 12, 1929, he married Pilar Juncosa in Palma de Mallorca, and then moved to Paris. During this period, he rebelled against painting, and produced wood reliefs, assemblages and collages. Although he was living in France, the influence of the Spanish Civil War has been sensed in the intense colour and strong imagery of Still-life with an Old Shoe (1937). Experimentation continued in Miró’s work until his death in 1983. His wide body of work included ceramics, various prints, drawing, and sculpture. Major projects include the 1958 ceramic murals The Sun and The Moon for the Unesco building in Paris. He also collaborated with Josep Llorens Artigas on the work Miró Artigas, and was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation’s Grand Prize. Numerous retrospectives of his works have been held, both during his lifetime and after. BARTA ARTS

Joan Miró Original colour etching with aquatint 73 x 114,5 cm (18.74 x 45.08 in.) 7/30 Signed lower right

Takashi Murakami Born 1962, Tokyo, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo and New York Takashi Murakami is a painter and sculptor famous for the integration of fine art, commercialism, Japanese aesthetics, and cultural criticism into his work. Murakami received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he studied Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). He first gained recognition as a sculptor during the early 1990s in his works exploring otaku (the Japanese term for an obsession with anime and cartoons) and the contradictions between contemporary Japanese society and American culture. In 1996, he created the Hiropon Factory in Japan, which later developed into the Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., a large art-making and artist-management corporation. Murakami is also a curator and a critical observer of Japanese art. In 2000, he founded the ‘superflat’ movement, a post-modern style which draws inspiration from Japanese manga (comics created in Japan), graphic design, and traditional Japanese prints and screen paintings. Throughout his career, Murakami has increasingly blurred the boundaries between fine art and popular culture by branding his artwork and turning it into merchandise, particularly through the celebrated character Mr Dob. His embrace of the commercial side of art reached a high point in 2003, when the artist began collaborating with Marc Jacobs in the redesign of the Louis Vuitton logo and handbags.

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Takashi Murakami ‘Project KO2‘ 1999 Perfect Edition Painted synthetic resin 51 x 20 x 18 cm (8.27 x 7.87 x 7.09 in.) AL 200

Helmut Newton Born 1920, Berlin, Germany Died 2004, West Hollywood, USA Photographer Helmut Newton is most famous for his work as a fashion photographer, frequently creating work for Vogue magazine, and for his provocative, studied photographs of nudes. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin in 1920, Newton received his first camera at 12 years old, often neglecting his studies in school to pursue photography. Known for the dramatic lighting and unconventional poses of his models in his photographs, Newton’s work has been characterized as obsessive and subversive, incorporating themes of sadomasochism, prostitution, violence, and a persistently overt sexuality into the narratives of his images. He increasingly focused more on these images rather than fashion photography in the 1970s, emphasizing the aggressive and incendiary aspects of his works. He continued to travel until late in life, dividing his time between his homes in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. He died in a car crash in Los Angeles at the age of 84 years old. Among other honours, Newton received the German Kodak Award for Photographic Books, a Life Legend Award from Life magazine, and an award from the American Institute for Graphic Arts.

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Helmut Newton ‘SUMO‘ 1999 Signed: Helmut Newton 50 x 70 x 8 cm (19.69 x 27.56 x 3.15 in.) 480 pages Book-stand by Philippe Starck

Pablo Picasso Born 1881, Malaga, Spain Died 1973, Mougins, France Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20 th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. During the first decade of the 20 th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques and ideas. His work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-Influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912) and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and accumulated an immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures of 20 th -century art. BARTA ARTS

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‘Raphael et la Fornarina. XIII: Dans son fauteuil, le pape en tire la langue‘ Series 147, sheet 308 Original etching on handmade paper BKF Rives, 1968 14, 8 x 20, 9 cm (5.83 x 8.23 in.) 47 of 50 Signed on the right

Pablo Picasso Born 1881, Malaga, Spain Died 1973, Mougins, France Almost all of Picasso’s artistically most ambitious posters – in the linoleum-cut technique – were created for Vallauris, a town noted for its ceramics located in the Antibes hinterland near the Côte a’Azur. Picasso lived there from 1948 through 1954, and created numerous ceramic pieces which were produced by local potters in small limited editions. This activity materially contributed to the economic recovery of Vallauris after the war. In order to promote sales of its typical products – ceramics, flowers, perfumes – the artist devoted himself to publicity campaigns, designing a new poster for every summer season from 1948 to 1964. In addition to typical Vallauris products, the posters evince motifs, such as the faun’s, satyr’s and goat’s heads also found in Picasso ceramics. These motifs, derived from ancient mythology, stand for the idea of a simple and happy life in harmony with nature – the idea of a primal, earthly paradise.

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Pablo Picasso Poster ‘Vallauris‘ red/green 1952 Lithograph

Cathie Pilkington Born 1968, Manchester, UK Lives and works in London Cathie Pilkington is a London-based British sculptor whose work engages passionately and critically with the canonical history of figurative sculpture and is described as being amusing and ambiguously sentimental. Crossing the borders of traditional, modern and contemporary idioms, her work combines intensively modelled and painted sculptures within immersive installations comprising a diverse array of props, materials and studio furniture. Her site-responsive installations are balanced ambivalently between chaos and precision and have been described as a kind of art historical fly-tipping. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art (1986-91) and The Royal College of Art (1995-97). Her sculptural practice combines the interrelated and antagonistic worlds of fine art and craft. She carefully creates pieces from a vast array of materials, adopting ready-made elements, which are freely assembled, as well as incorporating modelling, carving, painting and other finishes to her works. Her sculptures often take on doll-like forms, which approach the immediacy of ordinary figurative playthings, and thereby challenge the art-world’s customary and mediated relationship between the viewer and the artwork. BARTA ARTS

Cathie Pilkington ‘Alasdair’ 2002 Bronze, painted 30 x 20 x 25 cm (12 x 8 x 10 in.)

Rudolf Polanszky Born 1951, Vienna, Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria Born in Vienna, where he grew up in the 1960s in the wake of the Viennese Actionists, Rudolf Polanszky is considered a key figure in the Actionist and Post-Actionist movement with his conceptual oeuvre which aims to bring abstract mathematical and scientific concepts to life. Polanszky has been working as a freelance artist since the mid-1970s, when he created his first conceptual works such as pig-fat drawings. In the 1980s, the topic of avoiding constructed aesthetics through the principle of randomness was added to his work. The 1990s marked an artistic turning point for Polanszky. During this period, he began creating canvas-mounted and freestanding assemblages by combining salvaged industrial materials. Starting with the reconstructions, Polanszky worked primarily with selected waste materials, which he transformed into new structures such as wall objects and sculptural forms. With such works, Polanszky's art has long been recognized in Austria as well as internationally later on. The artist’s favourite media include plexiglass, metal, mirror film, synthetic resin, wire and foam, which he decouples from its original purpose or intended use. He refers to this process as decoupling, a spontaneous assembly into new contexts, an ad hoc synthesis. His two solo exhibitions Translinear Structures in the Dominican Bastion in Krems and Eidola in the Vienna Secession marked the artist’s leap into the international art world. Together with Franz West, Polanszky has been represented by the world's largest gallery, Gagosian, since 2019.

Rudolf Polanszky ‘Reconstruction dunkle Spiegel’ 2017 Plexiglas, acrylic, aluminium, silicone Signed and dated 175 x 152 cm (69 x 60 in.)

Robert Polidori Born 1951, Montreal, Canada Lives and works in Ojai, California Robert Polidori is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments. Creating meticulously detailed, large format colour film photographs, Polidori’s images record a visual citation of both past history and the present times within the confines of a single frame. Born in Montreal, Polidori moved to the United States as a child. Polidori began his career in avant-garde film, assisting Jonas Mekas at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, an experience that critically shaped his approach to photography. While living in Paris in the early 1980s, he began documenting the restoration of Versailles, and has continued over a 30-year period to photograph the ongoing changes. Polidori’s additional projects include Havana, Chernobyl, and the aftermath of the flooding post Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. His current work deals with population and urban growth through photographing “dendritic” cities around the world, including Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Amman. Since 2015, Robert Polidori and his family live and work in Ojai, California.

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Robert Polidori ‘Attique du Midi, Aile du Midi – Attique’ 2005 Fotograph, Edition nr. 10 of 10 167 x 127 cm (65 x 50 in.)

Larry Rivers Born 1923, Bronx, New York City, USA Died 2002, New York City, USA Larry Rivers, renowned painter and sculptor, is best known for his figurative paintings, which combine a loose, luminous formal style with iconic works from art history, commercial culture and everyday life. Rivers was born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in New York, and changed his name while a teenager. Interested in jazz as a youth, Rivers initally played the saxophone and studied music at The Juilliard School. Following a brief period of service in World War II, Rivers began to paint at the encouragement of his friends. He studied with Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s and, though he was influenced early on by Abstract Expressionist artists, chose to apply his skill in draftsmanship to works depicting naturalistic subject matter with loose, flowing brushstrokes. In the 1950s, he received both positive and negative critical attention for the appropriation of famous paintings in his own works, including reinventions of Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816–1868), Olympia, by Édouard Manet (1832–1883), and paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Rivers’ work prefigured many of the concepts pursued by1960s Pop Art; he incorporated items from mass media and commercial culture into his works, as well as unusual materials and found objects. Rivers also collaborated with several artists across different mediums, including set design, poetry, sculpture and music; his interest in jazz can be seen in the rhythmic visual composition of his paintings. Beginning in the 1970s, Rivers used airbrushing, stencilling, printmaking and assemblage in his art. In 1977, Rivers exhibited his work at documenta VI in Kassel, Germany, and he has held several retrospectives, including exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Munich, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Berlin, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. BARTA ARTS

Larry Rivers ‘Fred and Ginger‘ 1999 Lithograph with 3D construction Edition 40 of 53 87 x 75cm (34.25 x 29.53 in.)

Bunny Rogers Born 1990, Houston, Texas, USA Lives and works in New York City In her work, American artist Bunny Rogers – often referred to as ‘shooting star’ and ‘enfant terrible’ within the art industry – most commonly focuses on sculptural design and digital media, while also incorporating elements of performance art and literature. In 2012 she graduated from the renowned Parsons School of Design in New York and later studied Fine Arts at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, finishing her studies in 2017. She now lives in New York City where she feels closest to home. In the early stages of her career the artist made a splash with two solo shows at Greenspon Gallery and the Bard College Centre for Curatorial Studies in which she shared the stage with Cosima von Bonin, a German sculptor with a complementary sensibility. Rogers is the author of the book ‘My Apologies Accepted’ which was published in 2014. In her works, Bunny Rogers plays with ideas of gender identity and deals with themes closely related to personal sensitivity and vulnerability as well as friendship and marginalization. Typically, she is inspired by characters from popular television series, video games or the internet. The artist often draws on personal as well as pop-culture references that reflect on the complexity of youthful femininity with its associated fears, intensity and narcissism. BARTA ARTS

Bunny Rogers ‘Shoyru Statue’ 2019 Bronze, lacquered (original grey), unique 40 x 36 x 14,2 cm (15 x 14 x 6 in.)

Hubert Scheibl Born 1952, Gmunden, Upper Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria From 1976 to 1981 Scheibl studied under Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-eighties, when his work was acknowledged as a significant reaction to the then popular neo-expressionism. Scheibl is one of the most important and significant representatives of abstract-sensitive, gesture-intense painting amongst mid-generation Austrian artists, as well as being an assiduous draughtsman and photographer. Scheibl’s work, both on paper and canvas, is difficult to categorize. Sublime, fathomless, overwhelming and sensual, are some of the adjectives used to describe his practice. The lush, sensuous and nervous elements of the artist’s paper works reveal the speed and immediacy of their graphical gesture. The timeless aspect of Hubert Scheibl’s paintings derive from his remarkable skill at capturing the inner light behind the picture plane which creates a sense of deep space; it is here that the viewer is drawn, into a matrix of gesture and colour unwittingly. Scheibl provides this sense of emotional freefall as the painting defines its own sense of time and place.

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Hubert Scheibl ‘Nicotine on Silverscreen’ 2011 Oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm (70.8 x 70.8 in.)

Gerlinde Thuma Born 1962, Vienna, Austria Lives and works in Austria The Austrian artist Gerlinde Thuma was born in Vienna in 1962. She studied between 1981 and 1988 at the University of Applied Arts and won a prize at the ‘young art 82’ contest of the BAWAG Foundation. In 1986 she received the Recognition Prize of Lower Austria, and the following year the Graphic Contest of St. Pölten. She won further prizes in 1991 and 1997, the latter from the Bauholding Kunstforum, and in 1990 she exhibited at the Landesatelier in the Künstlerhaus, Salzburg. In 1998 she received a grant from the Austrian state for applied arts. She exhibited at the Atelier Paliano in Italy in 2007, and in 2010 was the recipient of the Wiener Postsparkkasse in Künstlerhaus prize. Since 1998 she has worked as a freelance artist, specialising in graphics, sculpture, stage design and animation. Her work has been widely exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions, in Europe and further afield, including galleries in Japan, Singapore, South Africa and the USA.

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Gerlinde Thuma

‘Triptychon‘ Oil and collage on canvas 59 x 160 cm (23.23 x 62.99 in.) Signed on the left

Tomak Born 1970, St. Veit an der Gölsen, Austria Lives and works in Vienna, Austria Upon moving to Vienna in 1995, Tomak began studying painting and graphics under the supervision of Christian Ludwig Attersee at Vienna University of Applied Arts, now regarded not only as a painter, but also as an illustrator and sculptor. Despite considering himself a bit of an anti-artist and provocateur, and according to his own remarks, loathing the sluggish art scene and political correctness, the works of Tomak have been featured in some of the most prestigious exhibition spaces in the German speaking region, including the Albertina as well as the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, Austria, Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, and Gallery 14+1 in Stuttgart, Germany, and beyond that, in Kunsthuis Yello in Geel, Belgium. Apart from his vast selection of solo exhibitions, the artist’s career spans 30 years of experience in an industry he so despises. The artist’s fascination with the world of natural science and biomorphic structures is a key element of his artistic identity. Using a combination of silkscreen print and illustration, Tomak creates highly technical and anatomical drawings that he uses as the basis for his characteristically larger-formatted and visually striking pieces. Provocative, polarizing, and – perhaps most importantly – anti-mainstream, are some of the words articulating the essence of Tomak’s art most fittingly.

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Tomak ‘No more white noise I’ 2012 Pencil drawing on paper 80 x 60 cm (31 x 24 in.)

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Tomak ‘No more white noise II’ 2012 Pencil drawing on paper 80 x 60 cm (31 x 24 in.)

Laszlo Toth Born 1933, Hungary Died 2009 László Tóth was born in 1933 and was largly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that studied notions of spirituality and the sublime, dominated the 1950s. Many artists concentrated on the formal properties of painting, and action painting took inspiration from the political freedom of the United States, in opposition to the strict nature of the Soviet bloc. New York City became the focus for modernism on an international scale during the Post-War period. Many artists had travelled to the city during the Second World War, fleeing in exile from Europe. This led to a significant pooling of talent and ideas. Influential Europeans such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and Hans Hoffmann provided inspiration for American artists whilst in New York and influenced cultural growth in the United States for many decades to come. Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb were influential artists of this time. The male dominated environment has been subsequently revised to acknowledge the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.

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Laszlo Toth Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm (19.6 x 15.7 in.)

Endre Vadasz Born 1901, Szeged, Hungary Died 1944, Budapest, Hungary Endre Vadasz was a Hungarian visual artist. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Bank of Seine in Paris’ sold at the Virag Judit Auction House autumn auction in 2015.

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Endre Vadasz ‘Pyrano‘ Water colour and opaque white on paper 49 x 59 cm (19.29 x 23.23 in.) Signed and captioned on the right

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Endre Vadasz ‘Rustikale Stadtansicht mit Graben‘ (Rustic Townscape with a Moat) Oil on wood 48 x 59 cm (18.9 x 23.23 in.)

André Villers Born 1930, Beaucourt, France Died 2016, Le Luc, France Born in 1930 in Beaucourt, France, photographer and artist André Villers was best known for his photographs of Pablo Picasso in the south of France during the 1950s. Villers first encountered Picasso in Vallauris, in 1953, when he stopped the artist to take his photograph. It marked the beginning of a sincere, mutual friendship, which would later define the artistic legacy of Villers. In fact, Picasso offered him his first camera, a Rolleiflex with which Villers produced many portraits of the painter and documented the life, work and studio of Pablo Picasso. During this period of time, the two artists produced hundreds of images based on photographic experiments, fusing the art of photography and painting in unprecedented ways. In 1970 Villers began to experiment with a new approach to creating his photography, abandoning the camera itself. Using pieces of tracing paper, he began to make his own negatives. His photographic work was typically characterized by his love of experimenting with the various effects of shadows and transparencies. Significant collections of his photographic work can be found at Nicephorus-Niepce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône and the Museum of Photography in Charleroi in Belgium.

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André Villers ‘La guerre at la paix’ (Pablo Picasso, Villauris) 1953 Gelatin silver print 36,8 x 28,5 cm (14.5 x 11.25 in.)

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André Villers Photograph of Pablo Picasso, Villa ‘La Californie’, Cannes 1959 Silver gelatin print, signed and dated on the back 36 x 27 cm (14 x 11 in.)

Andy Warhol Born 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Died 1987, New York, USA Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between the artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertising that flourished during the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression ‘15 minutes of fame’. Many of his creations are highly collectible and very valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting was US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled ‘Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)’. A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the ‘bellwether of the art market’. Warhol’s works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

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Andy Warhol ‘Dollars‘ Silkscreen on canvas 57 x 89 cm (22.44 x 35.04 in.)

Franz West Born 1947, Vienna, Austria Died 2012, Vienna, Austria Despite being exposed to the art scene fairly early in his life, during the course of numerous trips with his mother to Italy to attend art viewings, Franz West did not begin to pursue a career in the arts until the age of 26 when, between 1977 and 1983, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Bruno Gironcoli. West rose to fame with his unique and unconventional objects and sculptures as well as installations and furniture work which often call for the involvement of their audience. West began making drawings around 1970 before moving on to painted collages incorporating magazine images that showed the influence of Pop Art. His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades. Over the last 20 years he had a regular presence in big expositions like Documenta and the Venice Biennale. West's artwork is typically made out of plaster, paper-mâché, polyester, aluminium, and other, ordinary materials. He started to produce paintings, but then turned to collages and sculptures. In the late 1990s, West turned to large-scale lacquered aluminium pieces, the first (and several after) inspired by the forms of Viennese sausages, as well as the shapes of the Adaptives. With their monochrome colours and irregular patchwork surfaces, these works were also meant for sitting and lying. West's estate continues to be represented, among others, by Gagosian Gallery. BARTA ARTS

Franz West Untitled, two-part sculpture 170 cm (67 in.)

Erwin Wurm Born 1954, Styria, Austria Lives and works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria Professor of Sculpture, Plastic Art and Multimedia, University of Applied Arts, Vienna For over 25 years, Erwin Wurm has worked on a complex concept of sculpture. Acts, statements and even thoughts can become his sculptures. Wurm’s work is often critical of Western society and the mentality and lifestyle of his childhood during post-World War II Austria. Although Wurm’s sculptures seem to be humorous and ridiculous, they are actually quite serious. His criticism of objects, such as clothing, furniture, cars, houses and everyday items, to his audience is playful, but should not be confused with kindness. Common themes in his work include not only our relationship to banal everyday objects, but also philosophers (like Sigmund Freud and Ludwig Wittgenstein), and life in post-war Austria. Solo exhibitions (selection): • PRIVATE Wurm, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg • Erwin Wurm, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna • Desperate Philosophers, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels • Liquid Reality, Kunstmuseum Bonn • Erwin Wurm, Lenbachhaus, Munich Group exhibitions (selection): • Videorama. Art clips from Austria and the Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw • The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York • Glück Happens, Kunstpalais, Erlangen • Happy End, Kunsthalle Göppingen • GAGARIN: The Artists in their Own Words, The First Decade, SMAK, Ghent • Liverpool Biennial 2011 BARTA ARTS

Erwin Wurm

‘Crap Head‘ Bronze Sculpture Height approx. 50 cm (19.69 in.)

Paul Yore Born 1988, Australia Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia Paul Yore works across a range of different mediums – installations, painting, sculpture, sound, drawing and tapestry. Awards/Residencies Australia Council Arts Project Grant 2015-2016 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2015-2016 Artspace Studio Residency, 2014 Geumcheon Residency, Seoul, 2013 Wangaratta Textile Prize, 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize Finalist, 2013 Australian Tapestry Workshop Residency, 2013 John Fries Memorial Prize Finalist, 2012 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio Residency 2011-2012 ARTecycle People’s Choice Award, Incinerator Arts Complex, 2010 Alliance Francaise Prize, 2009 Trocadero Art Space Award, 2009 Selected Solo Projects Fountain of Knowledge, Neon Parc, (2013) Boys Gone Wild, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces Studio 12 Exhibition, (2012) And, Gertrude Contemporary Project Space Melbourne Art Fair, (2012) Panta Rei, Anna Pappas Gallery, (2012) ANTHROPOP, Blindside Artist Run Space, (2011) The Big Rainbow Funhouse Of Cosmic Brutality Part 2, Heide Museum Of Modern Art, (2009) The Big Rainbow Funhouse Of Cosmic Brutality, O’ Projects Artspace, (2008)

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Paul Yore

‘Everything Is Fucked, 2011‘ Tapestry 59,5 x 44 cm (23.43 x 17.32 in.)

Marco Zanuso Born 1916, Milan, Italy Died 2001, Milan, Italy Italian architect and designer Marco Zanuso and prominent member of a group of Italian designers from Milan was a key figure in shaping the international idea of ‘good design’ in the post-war years, re-establishing Milan as a stylish, colourful mecca of modern design in the otherwise grey years following the second world war. Trained in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano University, he opened his own design office in 1945. From the beginning of his career, at Domus where he served as the editor from 1947–49 and at Casabella where he was editor from 1952–56, he helped to establish the theories and ideals of the energetic Modern Design movement. As a professor of architecture, design and town planning at the Politecnico from the late 1940s until the 1980s, and as one of the founding members of the ADI in the 1950s, he also had a distinct influence over the next design generation coming out of Italy. The major pieces of his career run a broad spectrum from early experiments in bent metal to luxurious, plush furniture to sleek industrial designs in plastic. The underlying motif throughout each phase of his work is that he was pioneering the use and market accessibility of every different material he worked with. His designs epitomized the elegance, practicality and irreverence that made Italy a world leader in design. BARTA ARTS

Marco Zanuso Senior lounge chair pair ‘Arflex’ 1951 Brass, fabric 98 x 78 x 80 cm (38.5 x 30.7 x 31.4 in.)

African Mask African Masks are made of many different types of materials, wood, of many varieties and densities, being the most common. Certain types of wood appear to be preferred in some regions or by some carvers’ shops, and not only because of their local availability. There are symbolic links between certain masks and certain trees, although little research has been devoted to this topic. Most African masks are carved from a single piece of wood. Exceptions include types of masks fitted with a movable jaw; and the antelope figures in the headpieces of the Bamana in Mali, which are built from several pieces of wood.

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African Mask Ivory Coast Wood 35 x 20 x 13 cm (13.78 x 7.87 x 5.12 in.)

African Punu Mask Ethnic group: PUNU Country: Gabon Period: Late 19th, early 20th century The Punu people reside along the upper Ngoumie River. They live in independent villages divided into sects and families. This beautiful mask was used during Punu or Lumbo rites and represents the spirit of a young girl who came back from the limbos. It was worn by a dancer who was dancing through the village wearing stilts. The geometrical diamond shapes scarves on the forehead shows that it belongs to Punu or Lumbo tribes. According to Perrois (Art ancestral du Gabon, Genève, 1985, p.206), the number nine had a great symbolic importance for those tribes. In the mythology of the tribes of the south of Gabon, it symbolizes the nine primary clans. The white colour is the colour of reincarnation. The coif is characteristic of those tribes. The wood is very light and takes a yellow shade while aging, showing that this object was used in the end of 19th or beginning of 20th century. The Punu masks are extremely valuable to collectors of African art, and have been sold at Sotheby’s for well over $400,000. The earliest known example, collected in 1867, is part of the Pitt Rivers Museum collection at the University of Oxford. Among other institutions these masks are exhibited at other museums, such as the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. They have been exhibited at the African Negro Art show in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1935), and at the Museum voor Volkenkunde, in Rotterdam (1953). BARTA ARTS

African Punu Mask Wood and polychromy Height: 40 cm (15.75 in.)

African sculpture Precolonial West African sculpture made extensive use of terracotta. The West African regions most known for producing terracotta art include the Nok culture of central and north-central Nigeria, the Ife/Benin cultural axis in western and southern Nigeria (also noted for its exceptionally naturalistic sculpture), and the Igbo culture area of eastern Nigeria, which excelled in terracotta pottery. These related but separated traditions also gave birth to elaborate schools of bronze and brass sculpture.

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Mambila, Nigeria/Cameroon Sitting woman without arms Natural coloured earthenware Height 27 cm (10.63 in.)

Bronze Sculpture Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mould. Their strength and ductility (lack of brittleness) is an advantage when figures in action are to be created, especially when compared to various ceramic or stone materials such as marble. These qualities allow the creation of delicate, extended figures to emulate the proportions of the human physique, as depicted in the two bronze figures featured in this collection. Usually, the artist will prepare a series of smaller study models for the purpose of determining the pose and proportions of the figure, before adding finer details to the final mould. Upon polishing of the metal cast, corrosive materials may be applied to form a patina, a process that allows some control over the colour and finish of the sculpture. Until their commercial revival in the 19th & 20 th century, only few large ancient bronzes have survived, as many were melted down to make weapons or ammunition in times of war or to create new sculptures commemorating the victors, while far more stone and ceramic works have come through the centuries.

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Bronze Sculpture Figure of a young man Around 1900 Bronze, patinated green, on a bronze stand

Bust of an African Khoikhoi Khoekhoen (or Khoikhoi in the former orthography; formerly also Hottentots) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of southwestern Africa. The broad ethnic designation of Khoekhoen is thought to refer to a population originating in the northern area of modern Botswana, forming a part of a pastoral culture and language group to be found across Southern Africa. This culture steadily spread southward, eventually reaching the Cape approximately 2,000 years ago. Khoe-speaking people traded with seafarers from all over the globe for centuries, going back into ancient times, and this undoubtedly included some Europeans, perhaps even Roman vessels, but Portuguese explorers and merchants are the first to record their contacts, in the 15th and 16th centuries AD. The religious mythology of the Khoe-speaking cultures gives special significance to the Moon, which may have been viewed as the physical manifestation of a supreme being associated with heaven. UNESCO has recognised Khoe-speaking culture through its inscription of the Richtersveld, a desert landscape characterised by rugged kloofs and high mountains, as a World Heritage Site. This important area is the only place where transhumance practices associated with the culture continue to any great extent. This signed stone sculpture depicting one of their natives may remind the viewer of their cultural heritage. BARTA ARTS

Bust of an African Khoikhoi Stone, glazed Signed ‘J. Yorster’ 19th century

Egyptian Portrait Statuette An Egyptian portrait statuette of a male carved out of stone, appearing to wear a Nemes, typically a characteristic of pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Nemes were pieces of striped headcloth that covered the whole crown and back of the head and nape of the neck and had lappets, two large flaps which hung down behind the ears and in front of both shoulders. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist. Thus, Egyptian sculptors worked within a strict framework dictated by ethical, religious, social and magical considerations. They were not free to express their personal likes and dislikes even they were not free to produce what they actually perceived. Rather they had to conform to a highly developed set of ethical principles, making it the artist's task to represent the model as a loyal adherent. However, considering the naturalizing tendencies evolving with time, historians argue that something of both the physical and appearance and the personality of the individual was made manifest.

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Egyptian Portrait Statuette Fragment of a head Stone, mounted on a steel base 14 x 14 x 12 cm (5.5 x 5.5 x 4.7 in.)

Figure of a Boy Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mould. Their strength and ductility (lack of brittleness) is an advantage when figures in action are to be created, especially when compared to various ceramic or stone materials such as marble. These qualities allow the creation of delicate, extended figures to emulate the proportions of the human physique, as depicted in the two bronze figures featured in this collection. Usually, the artist will prepare a series of smaller study models for the purpose of determining the pose and proportions of the figure, before adding finer details to the final mould. Upon final polishing of the metal cast, corrosive materials may be applied to form a patina, a process that allows some control over the colour and finish of the sculpture. Until their commercial revival in the 19th & 20 th century, only few large ancient bronzes have survived, as many were melted down to make weapons or ammunition in times of war or to create new sculptures commemorating the victors, while far more stone and ceramic works have come through the centuries.

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Figure of a Boy ‘Dornenzieher’ Around 1900 Bronze, patinated green, on a marble stand After Auguste Rodin

Figure of a Priest Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of Ancient Egypt in the lower Nile Valley from around 3,500 BC to 100 AD. Ancient Egyptian painting and sculpture was both highly stylized and symbolic. Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments and thus there is an emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past. Ancient Egyptian art was created using media ranging from drawings on papyrus to the use of wood, stone and wall paintings. It displays an extraordinarily vivid representation of the socioeconomic status of Ancient Egyptians and their belief systems. Egyptian styles changed remarkably little over more than three thousand years.

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Figure of a Priest

Egypt, around 1900 BCE Basalt, height approx. 10 cm (3.94 in.)

Rear view with signature

Floor Lamp in the Style of Edgar Brandt With its long, wound, organic shape, its orangecoloured glass lamp shade and its textured surface reminiscent of a cobra rising out of its basket, this stellar floor lamp bears striking resemblance with the artistic oeuvre of the French iron workers of the early 20 th century, particularly the time of the Art Deco. One of them, Edgar William Brandt (1880 – 1960), formerly a successful entrepreneur in the weapons industry and metalsmith himself, has designed some of the most sought-after design pieces among collectors and connoisseurs of the French style and elegance of the twenties and thirties. His cobra lamp, with the neck of the snake coiled around the base of a glass or alabaster shade, looking so menacing with its mouth agape and hood flaring, came to be known as "La Tentation", a design made in three sizes – as a table lamp, a floor lamp and one between the two. A unique design that nowadays is regarded as an important representation of the playful, yet elegant style that is attributed to the French avant-garde artists of that era.

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Floor Lamp in the Style of Edgar Brandt Brass ca. 1950 150 x 40 cm (59 x 15.7 in.)

Greek hydria The hydria, primarily a pot for fetching water, derives its name from the Greek word for water. Hydriai often appear on painted Greek vases in scenes of women carrying water from a fountain, one of the duties of women in classical antiquity. A hydria has two horizontal handles at the sides for lifting and a vertical handle at the back for dipping and pouring. Of all the Greek vase shapes, the hydria probably received the most artistically significant treatment in terracotta and in bronze. The change in design of terracotta hydria from the seventh century to the third century BCE is well represented in the Greek collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

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Hydria Greek Water Jug Around 500 BCE Clay Height approx. 50 cm (19.69 in.)

Large Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite A magnificent terracotta statuette of goddess Aphrodite wearing a tight-fitting chiton tied under the breast. She stands with her weight on her left leg, the right one rests on a pedestal. The himation thrown over her left arm, which is bent forward, swings around her pelvis and slides from the right thigh down to the floor in many folds. The features are fine and even, the thick hair is parted in the middle and tied in a bun at the back. Aphrodite is leaning with her right arm on a statue that stands on the pedestal. The statue in the form of a woman in peplos, with long hair and a polos on her head. A high-quality terracotta statuette from Asia Minor.

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Large Terracotta Statuette of Aphrodite Greek, 300-250 BC Terracotta 32,5 cm (12.8 in)

Narwhal Tusk Known as the unicorns of the sea, narwhals are toothed whales and the horn of the male, rarely seen on females, can grow to be as long as eight-and-a-half feet long. This unusual feature is formed from the left canine tooth, which breaks through the upper lip. Very rarely, males may have double tusks. There is much speculation on the purpose of the tusks: suggestions include, attracting mates, communication and determining water temperature and possibly salinity. It is sometimes used in contests between males to win mates, but it does not primarily serve a defensive purpose. Another possibility is that, as narwhals live in a hostile arctic, ice-ridden environment, it is used to help source open water for breathing. The tusk is a beautiful spiral of varying tones of white, consisting of an outer cementum layer and an inside dentine layer. Inside the dentine is a pulp cavity that extends down most of the length of the tusk, narrowing in diameter and finally disappearing towards the tip of the tusk. Throughout history the narwhal tusk has been associated with the unicorn and has been ascribed mystical properties. It was said, for example, in Viking times that a cup made from the tusk of a narwhal would save the owner from poisoning by his enemies.

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Narwhal Tusk Height: 93,5 cm (36.81 in.)

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Narwhal Tusk Height: 211 cm (83.07 in.)

Neon Sign Neon is a recurring medium used by luminal artists to create decorative installations which are characterized by their bright glowing effect when lit. Typically they are created by using neon tubes which are specifically fabricated to achieve curving artistic shapes, forming letters or imagery. Originally, they were used to make dramatic, multi-coloured glowing signage for advertising, called neon signs, which were popular from the 1920s to 1960s and later in the 1980s. In recent decades architects and artists, in addition to sign designers, have again adopted neon tube lighting as a component in their works. Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. A neon tube is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure. A high potential of several thousand volts applied to the electrodes ionizes the gas in the tube, causing it to emit its bright, coloured light. For example, the pink glow of this particular piece by an unknown artist is caused by helium gas.

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Neon Sign ‘Expect the unexpected’ Neon calligraphy

Portrait of a Girl In the late 18th century and early 19th century, neoclassical artists continued the tradition of depicting subjects in the latest fashions, which for women by then, meant diaphanous gowns derived from ancient Greek and Roman clothing styles. The artists used directed light to define texture and the simple roundness of faces and limbs. French painters Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres demonstrated virtuosity in this draftsman-like technique as well as a keen eye for character. Romantic artists of the 19th century painted portraits of inspiring leaders, beautiful women, and agitated subjects, using lively brush strokes and dramatic, sometimes moody, lighting, while the realist artists the time, such as Gustave Courbet, created objective portraits depicting lower and middle-class people.

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Portrait of a Girl Artist unknown Oil on canvas

Portrait of a Lady This modernist painting portraying a young woman with her hands crossed and a distant look on her face, is believed to be the work of a Hungarian artist dating back to the turn-of-thecentury, around 1900. While most innovations in early twentieth-century Continental-European art were instigated by non-conformist, eccentric young people from well-situated families, artists in Hungary most often did not enjoy the luxury of an education and, in many cases, were part of a young, working-class generation of men. A group of eight painters – Károly Kernstok, Béla Czóbel, Róbert Berény, Ödön Márffy, Lajos Tihanyi, Dezsö Orbán, Bertalan Pór, Dezsö Czigány – launched Hungarian painting into a new phase through their connection to the most modern movements that Europe had to offer at a time around 1909/10. Their pictures no longer corresponded with the traditional painting style of around 1900 adhering to Late Impressionism and Symbolism. They abandoned the academic traditions of genres and pictorial composition behind them: instead, their painting becomes marked by refulgent colours, subtly harmonized chords of colour and unconventional compositions with unusual views.

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Portrait of a Lady Hungarian artist Around 1900 Oil on canvas 77 x 48 cm (30 x 19 in.)

Roman Torso The Roman stone torso featured in this collection is a powerful illustration of the achievements of the early classical sculptors. The rigidity of the kouros ("youth, boy, especially of noble rank" depicted in sculptures of the archaic period in Greece) has disappeared, and the anatomical rendering is precise. The viewer is struck by the torso's athletic build, powerful shoulders, and massive proportions. The turning point between the Archaic and Classical periods, that had taken place by the early fifth century BC, marked a radical shift in representation of the male nude, typically presented frontally, nude, and in a standing position. The structural appeal of the figure and the harmony of the sculpture as a whole is achieved through the legibility of the muscular breastplate, separated into clear and well-defined masses.

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Roman Torso Marble stone 70 cm (27.5 in.)

Serapis A large head made of greyish dark, burnt clay of the syncretic god Serapis. The integrative imperial god, who was worshiped well into Roman times, with thick, long, curly hair and a full, also curly beard. The eyes are set deep, the mouth is slightly open. The hair at the back of the head is straight with curls cascading down the nape of the neck. The head itself is hollow on the inside and sits on an old wood base. Historically, the cult of Serapis was pushed forward during the third century BC on the orders of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in its realm. Serapis typically was depicted as Greek in appearance but with Egyptian trappings, combining iconography from a series of cults and signifying both abundance and resurrection. Though Ptolemy I may have created the official cult of Serapis and endorsed him as a patron of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Alexandria, Serapis was a syncretistic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis. This head originates from a workshop in Alexandria.

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Serapis Terracotta Roman/Province Egypt 1st-2nd Century A.D. 13,2 cm (5.2 in.)

Canopic Jars Canopic Jars were used in ancient Egypt during the rituals of mummification processes. They were used as containers to hold the internal organs of the deceased that was going to be mummified. The soft internal organs were taken out before mummifying as they contained a lot of fluid and could cause the body to putrefy and decompose quickly. The jars had lids or stoppers that were shaped like the head of one of the funerary deities, known as the Four Sons of Horus. It was the job of these four deities to protect the internal organs of the deceased; the Ancient Egyptians firmly believed that the deceased required his or her organs in order to be reborn in the afterlife. To preserve them, they were bandaged and placed individually in Canopic Jars. The baboon-headed Hapy guarded the lungs, the human-headed Imsety was the guardian of the liver, Jackal-headed Duamutef guarded the stomach and upper intestines, and falcon-headed Qebehsenuef guarded the lower intestines. The jars were made of several materials, including limestone, calcite and alabaster. These jars were usually grouped in fours and placed alongside the Sarcophagi, and were said to be guarded by the Sons of Horus.

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Stone Sculpture

Between 712 and 342 BCE Top of an Egyptian canopic jar Imsety, Son of Horus Alabaster with remains of the original colour Height 12,7 cm (5 in.)

Sumerian Relief with Erotic Scene Culture: Mesopotamia Period: First half to mid-2nd millennium BCE Material: Orange to red clay Condition: Some chips This is an unframed plaque in vertical format showing a copulation scene in high relief with a slightly forward-bending female drinking beer from a long reed. The back is smoothed and it was possibly a votive offering for a fertility cult.

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Sumerian Relief

‘Erotic Scene‘ Mesopotamina, First half to mid-2nd millennium BCE orange to red clay 8,3 x 6 cm (3.27 x 2.36 in.)

Terracotta Group of Cupid and Psyche A fragment of a terracotta group depicting Cupid and Psyche. The divine Cupid seated on a rock facing lovingly to his beloved and tenderly holding her in his arm. His long hair cascades along the nape. The wings are raised. The mortal Psyche with her hair pulled back and bare upper body leans in his lap and turns her head to her lover. She wears a dress wrapped around her waist and pleating down her lap. The left leg is advanced, the right one leans on a rock. A wonderful terracotta group full of tenderness. Possibly from Taranto.

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ETerracotta Group of Cupid and Psyche Greek/Taranto, 3 rd century B.C. Terracotta 14 x 11 cm (5.5 x 4.3 in.)

Thai Buddha Figure A delicate depiction of an upright, walking Buddha wearing a robe. The movement of the figure is illustrated not only through the stance and positioning of the hands and feet but also through the organic fluidity of the garment following the Buddha’s stride. Traditionally, figures such as this were manufactured using a series of different materials and techniques to achieve shapes and surfaces of distinct quality and craftmanship. The figure is positioned on a base of similar appearance, meticulously moulded and its surface covered in golden varnish. The image of Buddhas started to emerge from the first century CE in North India, developed in Gandhara and Mathura. The art of Gandhara was originally influenced by Ancient Greek art. A statue or a painting of Buddha typically illustrates a certain mudra or gesture. Depicted here is the Abhaya mudra representing the hand gesture of fearlessness and protection, usually shown as the left hand with palm turned outward and all fingers extended upwards. The symbolic meaning of the dispelling fear pose is an interpretation of the action of preaching. It is said that one gains fearlessness by following the Bodhisattva path.

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Thai Buddha Figure Thai (Sukhothai), 13th century Papier-maché 12,5 cm (5 in.)

Vase by Artel Prague, Czech Republic Founded by American designer Karen Feldman in 1998, Artel is a manufacturer of high-quality glass designer pieces and tableware. In each of her designs, Feldman aims to incorporate a sense of modern allure and aesthetic, combining elements of both traditional and contemporary beauty. Each of Artel’s pieces are handblown and individually crafted, using unique techniques to achieve shapes and surfaces of exceptional refinement. The company is based in Prague, Czech Republic, and distributes its creations through various galleries and boutiques around the world, 27 in total, one of which is represented by Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.

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Vase by Artel Vase, facetted crystal glass 40 cm (16 in.)

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