Holly Brackenbury selects Horse And Rider By Dame Elisabeth Frink

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Horse And Rider
By Dame Elisabeth Frink, RA (1930-1993)
Bronze Sculpture
Signed, dated ‘75’ and numbered ‘2/3’
Height: 244 centimetres (96 inches)
Estimated price: £600,000-800,000

Holly Brackenbury selects Chicago Board of Trade of 1997 By Andreas Gursky

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andreas gursky, apotheosis, blob of colour, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board of Trade of 1997, Contemporary Evening Sale, digital manipulation, Estimated price, frantic energy, geometric panorama, globalisation, Gursky’s pantheon, Gursky’s Stock Exchange Series, Holly Brackenbury, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, international stock exchanges, Kuwait Stock Exchange, London, minimalist palette, Sotheby's, Tokyo Stock Exchange, white robes

Chicago Board of Trade of 1997
By Andreas Gursky,
Size: 185 x 241 centimetres
(72 x 94 inches)
Estimated price: £700,000-900,000

Holly Brackenbury selects Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne by Francis Bacon.

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   Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne (1966)
By Francis Bacon
Oil on canvas
Estimated price:
£10-15 million

At the end of this month, Sotheby’s London will be offering an important painting by Francis Bacon. Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne is a portrait of Bacon’s great friend, muse and artistic contemporary.

Painted in 1966, the portrait marks the second great peak in
Bacon’s career. The triptych portrait demonstrates how the artist navigated the threshold of abstraction and figuration.

Holly Brackenbury selects The Wardrobe by Naiza Khan

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acrylic, Aisha Khalid, art sale, Charcoal, Conte, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Fabriano paper, Farida Batool, hijabs, Holly Brackenbury, Imran Qureshi, Islamabad, Lal Masjid, Michigan, Naiza Khan, New York, religious beliefs, Sotheby’s London, South Asian art, Talha Rathore, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Skin She Wears, The Wardrobe, Under The Hammer At Sotheby’s, US

The Wardrobe
By Naiza Khan
Charcoal, conté and acrylic on Fabriano paper
Estimated price: £6,000-8,000

Holly Brackenbury selects Painting No. 1 by Vasudeo S Gaitonde

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celadon green, colour, deep blue abstract shapes, experimentation, Gaitonde, Guggenheim Museum, Hans Hofmann, hieroglyphic forms, Holly Brackenbury, imaginary horizon, Indian miniature painting, influential art collector and philanthropist, Japanese Zen philosophy, John D Rockefeller III, light, Mark Rothko, meditative green palette, New York, Painting No. 1, Painting No. 4, palette knife, philosophic approach, purest form of expression, rare opportunity, reclusive Indian artist, retrospective, roller, striking red dot, Subcontinent’s most significant modern painters, texture, The Museum of Modern Art, translucent layers, Vasudeo Gaitonde

Painting No. 1 (1962)
By Vasudeo S Gaitonde
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated and inscribed ‘Painting No. 1/ GAITONDE. 62’ in English and
Devanagari on reverse
Size: 127 x 127 centimetres (50 x 50 inches)
Estimated price: £250,000-450,000

Holly Brackenbury selects Jhoola by MF Husain

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ancient, Birth centenary modern master, classical, classical sculpture, eve of Independence, folk, heritage, human figure, Husain, Husain’s rural woman, Indian countryside, indigenous rural peasant, inner dignity, international modernism, Jhoola, layered vocabulary, Maqbool Fida Husain, masterpiece, miniature, miniature school tradition, modern, movement, mythical, paintings, palette, pictorial language, portraying the present, powerful nature, real, rhythmic nature, South Asian art, South Asian sale, strength

Jhoola (1961)
By Maqbool Fida Husain
Oil on canvas
Size: 129.5 x 58.4 centimetres (51.5 x 23 inches)
Estimated price: £220,000-250,000

This year marks the centenary of the birth of the modern master, Maqbool Fida Husain. On the eve of Independence, Husain and his contemporaries established a movement that was to represent a new era in South Asian art.

Although an advocate of international modernism, Husain chose to draw on aspects of his heritage as a way of portraying the present. The layered vocabulary of his paintings was derived from a myriad of sources, drawing from the classical, the miniature and the folk, to formulate a distinctive pictorial language that was both mythical and real.

Holly Brackenbury selects works from the Collection of Comtesse Viviane de Witt.

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Figurine
By Alberto Giacometti
Painted bronze
From the Collection of Comtesse Viviane de Witt
Estimated price: €1-1.5 million

In June, Sotheby’s Paris will be offering a remarkable selection of works from the Collection of Comtesse Viviane de Witt in its Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Sales. Viviane de Witt became one of France’s first female auctioneers in 1978, swiftly making her mark on the country’s male-dominated auction world.

Holly Brackenbury, Consultant, Sotheby’s London, selects works by Zhang Daqian from The Mei Yun Tang Collection

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Shimmering Lake and Mountain Colours (1949)
By Zhang Daqian
Ink and colour on paper; hanging scroll
Size: 118 x 52.5 cm
Estimated price: $2.05-2.56 million

At the end of this month, Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be offering a single-owner collection of works by the renowned Chinese artist Zhang Daqian. Regarded as “the greatest Chinese artist of the last 500 years”, Zhang Daqian overtook Picasso’s position in 2011 as the world’s top selling artist at auction.

Holly Brackenbury selects Onement VI by Barnett Newman.

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1953, 1961, 8.5 by 10 feet canvas, Abstract Expressionist movement, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Annalee, Barnett Newman, Frederick and Marcia Weisman Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Hartford, Holly Brackenbury, masterwork, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ohio, Onement VI, photograph, Sotheby’s London, Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art, vertical ‘zip’, vibrant blue, Vogue, Wadsworth Atheneum

Onement VI (1953)
By Barnett Newman
Size: 8.5 x 10 feet
Estimated price: $30-40 million

Sotheby’s next sale of Contemporary Art is to include the most important painting by Barnett Newman ever to appear at auction. Onement VI from 1953 stands as a masterwork not only of Newman’s artistic enterprise but of the entire Abstract Expressionist movement.

Holly Brackenbury,Consultant, Sotheby’s London, selects a Wooden Model of the Dome of the Rock by Dr Conrad Schick.

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1873, Abd al-Aziz, Arts of the Islamic World Sale, Dr Conrad Schick, Haram al-Sharif, Holly Brackenbury, Holy Land, Jerusalem, landmark, sacred sites in Islam, Sotheby’s London, Vienna Ottoman Sultan, wooden model of the Dome of the Rock, World Fair

A Wooden Model of the Dome of the Rock (1872-3)
By Dr Conrad Schick
Estimated price: £250,000-300,000
Price realised: £242,500

A highlight of Sotheby’s forthcoming Arts of the Islamic World Sale is a monumental model of the Dome of the Rock made in 1873 for the World Fair in Vienna by the architect and archaeologist Dr Conrad Schick (1822-1901).