Christie’s To Offer Koons, Bacon, Freud
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Christie’s in London has released the catalog of works to be sold during the auction house’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on June 30. Lucian Freud’s “Naked Portrait with Reflection” (1980), estimated to sell for between $20 million and $30 million, is one of the highlights of the auction.
Other highlights include Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Flower (Magenta)” (1995-2000), estimated around $22 million; Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Self Portrait” (1975), which has never before been seen in public, estimated around $20 million, and Lucio Fontana’s “(Concetto spaziale) La fine de Dio” (1964), estimated around $15 million. The auction house is expected to take in $150 million in total.
Other artists represented will be Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Damien Hirst.
