Phillips de Pury & Company, is pleased to announce the highlights from its BRIC 2011 Evening and Day auctions featuring 203 lots with a low estimate of £7,280,500/$11,657,566 and a high estimate of £10,865,500/ $17,397,883. The Evening sale will feature 38 important works with a low estimate of £5,917,000 /$ 9,474,325 and a high estimate of £8,933,000/ $14,303,556.
Following the thrilling results for the first ever BRIC auctions in 2010, which highlighted the international demand for the best and most exciting art from the fast growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, Phillips de Pury & Company will continue to break new ground with BRIC 2011. Numerous world auction records were achieved last year for KOMAR & MELAMID, EMILIANO DI CAVALCANTI, VLADIMIR YANKILEVSKY & OS GÊMEOS; with outstanding results for ERIK BULATOV, AI WEIWEI, LIU WEI, CAI GUO QIANG & ZHANG XIAOGANG. This is testament to the rich variety, quality and diversity of the art, design and photography offered during these sales. This year’s BRIC sale will focus on artists with longevity and appeal as well as emerging new talent. The sale will offer collectors the opportunity to learn about and buy into these diverse markets in one sale room with a compelling, edited selection of the best available works.
“With this auction we aim to show the new strength and depth of the Contemporary Art Market in Brazil, and the continuing upward trends of the Chinese, Indian and Russian markets.” Henry Allsopp Worldwide Director, Curated Sales and Exhibitions.
The auction catalogue highlights the ‘diasporic’ and ‘global’ character of BRIC focusing on collectors, artists, curators and taste makers from each individual country, featuring interviews with Catherine Petitgas from London, Sylvain Levy from Paris and Dipti Mathur from Saratoga, who have allowed their private homes to be photographed for the first time in BRIC’s editorial giving unique access into their collections. Curator Joseph Backstein writes on seven of the most exciting contemporary artists from Russia and an interview with Thukral and Tagra illustrates the New Delhi-based artists who emerged from a graphic design background to become contemporary Indian art’s most exciting young duo. From China featuring Zhang Huan, primarily a performance artist and one of the artists to emerge from the “Beijing East Village” commune and Gautier Deblonde photographs artist Yang Jiechang in his studio preparing works for his major exhibition in Rennes in May.
Featuring works by Ilya KABAKOV, Subodh GUPTA, YANG Shaobin, Helio OITICICA, Beatriz MILHAZES, KOMAR & MELAMID, Bharti KHER, Rashid RANA, ZENG Fanzhi, LIU Wei & Vik MUNIZ
AUCTION: APRIL 14 &15, 2011 7PM, 10AM
VIEWING: APRIL 9 - 14 , 2011
LOCATION: Phillips de Pury & Company, Howick Place, London, SW1P 1BB
