{"id":31587,"date":"2014-11-15T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31587"},"modified":"2014-11-14T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T10:38:44","slug":"warhols-portraits-of-elvis-and-brando-de-kooning-sculpture-highlight-new-york-art-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/15\/warhols-portraits-of-elvis-and-brando-de-kooning-sculpture-highlight-new-york-art-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhol\u2019s portraits of Elvis and Brando, de Kooning sculpture highlight New York art auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK\u2014Extremely rare portraits by Andy Warhol of Hollywood superstars Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando were among the highlights at a record-breaking auction of postwar and contemporary art.<\/p>\n

Warhol\u2019s \u201cTriple Elvis (Ferus Type)\u201d sold for $81.9 million and \u201cFour Marlons\u201d brought in $69.6 million Wednesday at Christie\u2019s, which said the evening sale realized $852.9 million, the highest total for any auction.<\/p>\n

Works by Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly also broke auction records for the artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cTriple Elvis\u201d and \u201cFour Marlons\u201d rate among Warhol\u2019s most famous portraits. The nearly 7-foot (2.13-meter)-high portraits were acquired by German casino company WestSpiel in the 1970s for one of its casinos.<\/p>\n

The Elvis, executed in ink and silver paint in 1963, depicts the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll heartthrob as a cowboy, armed and shooting from the hip. The Brando silkscreen, created three years later, shows the actor on a motorcycle in a black leather jacket, an image that is repeated four times.<\/p>\n

Warhol produced a series of 22 images of Elvis. His \u201cDouble Elvis (Ferus Type)\u201d sold for $37 million at Sotheby\u2019s in 2012.<\/p>\n

Last fall, his \u201cSilver Car Crash (Double Disaster)\u201d set an auction record for his work when it sold at Sotheby\u2019s for $105.4 million.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one other four-times Brando, in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. A \u201cDouble Marlon\u201d sold at Christie\u2019s for $32.5 million in 2008.<\/p>\n

De Kooning\u2019s \u201cClamdigger,\u201d a life-size sculpture created in 1972, sold for $29.2 million, a world auction record for a sculpture by the artist. The bronze sculpture never left the artist, and it stood in the entry of his studio on eastern Long Island for about four decades.<\/p>\n

The inspiration for it came from the clam diggers the abstract expressionist artist observed on the beach every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cClamdiggers\u201d was offered for sale by the daughters of Lisa de Kooning, who inherited the sculpture from her father when he died in 1997. She died in 2012.<\/p>\n

The auction record for any work by de Kooning is $32.1 million for \u201cUntitled VIII,\u201d set last year at Christie\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Twombly\u2019s \u201cUntitled,\u201d one of the famous series of \u201cBlackboard\u201d paintings he made between 1966 and 1971, brought in $69.6 million, a world auction record for his work. With their spiraling lines on a dark grey background, the paintings were so-named because they resembled the slate of classroom blackboard.<\/p>\n

An oversized sculpture of a monkey by the popular artist Jeff Koons was another auction highlight.<\/p>\n

Koons\u2019 whimsical stainless steel \u201cBalloon Monkey (Orange)\u201d fetched $25.9 million. Measuring nearly 12 feet (3.6 metres) high and 20 feet (6 metres) long, it looks like an inflated twisted balloon.<\/p>\n

Koons became the most expensive living artist last year when his \u201cBalloon Dog (Orange)\u201d was auctioned for $58.4 million. A retrospective of his work recently closed at the Whitney Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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