By: Crystal Wong | Photos: Justin Cheng 19 Apr, 2021 | Mon | 23:24
Touted by Sotheby’s as a series of sales that carry the highest estimate for any auction series ever staged in Asia, tonight’s marquee Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong was indeed a tremendous success.
Driving the night were mainly artworks executed by Western artists, including all top three lots that each crossed the HK$100m (US$12.9m) mark: Clyfford Still’s abstract painting
PH-568, Gerhard Richter’s 1985 oil on canvas
Schwefel (Sulphur), and Roy Lichtenstein’s
Reflections on Thud!.
PH-568 at HK$108m
With only one work withdrawn towards the end of the sale, all 45 lots found their new owners. The white-glove sale tallied nearly HK$952m (US$122.5m) and a sizable portion of that amount was sured up by the 14 lots guaranteed by irrevocable bids ahead of the sale, to ensure they would sell.
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Exhibition presents the Clyfford Still Museum art collection in two complementary but alternate ways
Clyfford Still, PH-977, 1957. Oil on canvas, 113 3/8 x 147 in. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO © City and County of Denver - ARS, NY.
DENVER, CO
.-The Clyfford Still Museum opened the new exhibition Stories We Tell: The Collection Two Ways. The exhibition digs deep into the Museums vaults to present works from the Museums collection in two complementary but alternate ways as a means to understand how artworks and their meaning can change based on curatorial strategy.
Curated by Bailey Placzek, CSM associate curator and Dean Sobel, former CSM director, Stories We Tell: The Collection Two Ways presents Stills works arranged chronologically in the first five galleries and thematically in the remaining four rooms.