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British Art Highlights<br />
Contemporary Art Auctions<br />
London, 15 & 16 February 2012<br />
Sotheby’s is delighted to announce the Contemporary Art Auctions due to take<br />
place this February. The Evening sale comprises a host of superlative works by<br />
renowned luminaries of 20th Century British Art: spanning the School of London,<br />
works by Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach are complemented by<br />
a nuanced survey including signifi cant examples by Bridget Riley, Howard Hodgkin<br />
and Anish Kapoor, through to Young British Artists’ Damien Hirst and Gary Hume.<br />
There has never been a more exciting time for British art in London. With the<br />
current David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy, the upcoming Damien<br />
Hirst retrospective at Tate Modern and the Cultural Oylmpiad taking place from<br />
June–September, 2012 stands as a spectacular opportunity to celebrate the very<br />
best in British Art. Building on the remarkably strong results achieved for the sale<br />
of Lucian Freud drawings in the Evill/Frost Collection in May 2011, and coinciding<br />
with the highly anticipated exhibition of a lifetime of Freud’s portraiture at the<br />
National Portrait Gallery, Sotheby’s is honoured to be offering a superb private<br />
collection of fi ve works on paper by the artist, possibly the most encyclopaedic<br />
group of drawings by Freud ever to be presented for public sale.<br />
The Contemporary Art department at Sotheby’s London prides itself on presenting<br />
to market the most outstanding in British artistic achievement. We welcome you<br />
to view our Exhibition from 11–15 February 2012, and look forward to being part of,<br />
and contributing to, this most exciting year for British art and culture in London.<br />
Enquiries: Oliver Barker +44 (0)20 7293 5494<br />
FRONT COVER<br />
Lot 33<br />
Gary Hume<br />
Cerith, 1997<br />
ESTIMATE £100,000-150,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction<br />
BACK COVER<br />
Lot 37<br />
Lucian Freud<br />
Gorse Sprig, 1944<br />
ESTIMATE £300,000-400,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction<br />
OPPOSITE<br />
Lot 42<br />
Francis Bacon<br />
Figure with Monkey, 1951<br />
ESTIMATE £1,800,000-2,500,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 36<br />
Lucian Freud<br />
Cacti and Stuffed Bird, 1943<br />
ESTIMATE £400,000-500,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 40<br />
Lucian Freud<br />
Lord Goodman, 1985<br />
ESTIMATE £400,000–600,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 41<br />
Leon Kossoff<br />
Christchurch No.1, August 1991<br />
ESTIMATE £400,000-600,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction<br />
Lot 43<br />
Lucian Freud<br />
Portrait of a Man, circa 1955<br />
ESTIMATE £1,500,000-2,000,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 45<br />
Howard Hodgkin<br />
Gossip, 1994-1995<br />
ESTIMATE £250,000-350,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 35<br />
Bridget Riley<br />
Tabriz, 1984<br />
ESTIMATE £250,000-350,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction<br />
Lot 26<br />
Damien Hirst<br />
Mercuric Thiocyanate, 2007<br />
ESTIMATE £500,000-700,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 7<br />
Anish Kapoor<br />
<strong>Untitled</strong>, 2010<br />
ESTIMATE £500,000-700,000<br />
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Lot 142<br />
Tim Noble & Sue Webster<br />
Happy, 1999<br />
ESTIMATE £120,000-180,000<br />
Contemporary Art Day Auction<br />
Lot 117<br />
Antony Gormley<br />
Standing Matter XIII, 2008<br />
ESTIMATE £150,000-200,000<br />
Contemporary Art Day Auction
Lot 119<br />
Gilbert & George<br />
Coloured Love, 1982<br />
ESTIMATE £100,000-150,000<br />
Contemporary Art Day Auction
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