 Star Lot of the Spring Season
From the Famed Collection of Yusaku Maezawa
Monumental Painting to Lead the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in May, Following Exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, and Taipei
NEW YORK – 28 FEBRUARY 2022 – Phillips together with renowned entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa, are pleased to announce the sale of Basquiat’s Untitled, 1982. At over sixteen feet wide and estimated in the region of $70 million, this monumental tour de force is poised to lead the New York auction season when it is offered in the Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art on 18 May. In the lead-up to the auction, the work will embark on an international tour to London, Los Angeles, and Taipei, before heading to Phillips’ New York headquarters at 432 Park Avenue.
Yusaku Maezawa said, “The past six years of having Basquiat’s Untitled was nothing but a great pleasure and it has become a memorable piece in my collection. I believe that art collections are something that should always continue to grow and evolve as the owner does. I also believe that it should be shared so that it can be a part of everyone’s lives. I hope that Untitled will continue its great journey in good hands and that it will bring smiles to many people all around the world. In the near future, I plan on exhibiting my ever-emerging art collection at a museum I am currently planning to create. I look forward to the day I can share it with you.”
Cheyenne Westphal, Phillips’ Global Chairwoman, said, “When looking at Basquiat’s career, 1982 is often considered an inflection point in his meteoric rise to international fame. In 1982, at just 21 years old, he had six solo shows across the world, including that with his first gallerist Annina Nosei, which received tremendous acclaim and established him as a household name. Untitled is among Basquiat’s most ambitious and celebrated works, resonating deeply with collectors of across all backgrounds and interests. We are delighted to showcase this magnificent painting with our community of collectors around the globe, as we launch this exciting international tour.”
Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips’ President, Americas, added, “Seldom in the auction world are you fortunate enough to see an artwork whose dynamism matches that of its artist and collector. And that is exactly what we have here. Works of this caliber are rarely seen at auction and the demand from collectors is unprecedented. We are honored to have been entrusted by Mr. Maezawa with the sale of Untitled, which comes at a particularly exciting time for the Basquiat market and on the heels of a record-breaking year at Phillips.”
Gracing the cover of the artist’s 1996 catalogue raisonné and featured as a centerpiece in several of his major retrospectives, Untitled has since become one of the most iconic examples of Basquiat’s work. His pure brilliance is on full display in this monumental canvas—one of the largest of the artist’s career—which measures almost eight feet tall and over 16 feet wide. This striking horizontal format is likely a nod to Pablo Picasso’s masterwork Guernica, which Basquiat saw at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a child and later recalled left a strong impression on him. Immediately recognizable by his short, vertical dreadlocks, the artist takes the guise of a demonic figure in Untitled, his violent rage declared by the blood red paint dripping from his horns. Rising against a fiery expanse of gestural color evoking Abstract Expressionism, the subject is a distinct contrast to Basquiat’s depictions of martyrdom and sainthood and embodies his interest in the duality of heaven and hell. This masterpiece is unequivocally one of the finest examples of the distinctive iconography and painterly prowess that triumphantly marked the peak of the artist’s all-too-short career. Phillips is pleased to announce that the auction house will accept cryptocurrency for the work, in either Ethereum or Bitcoin.
The May auction comes at a particularly exciting moment for Jean-Michel Basquiat; in early April, a landmark exhibition in celebration of the artist will open in lower Manhattan. Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© has been organized by Basquiat’s family and features over 200 never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, multimedia presentations, ephemera. Sir David Adjaye will lead the exhibition design. Phillips is proud to continue a long relationship with the artist’s family and support the exhibition as a participating sponsor.
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Phillips to Offer a Tour-de-Force Basquiat as the Star Lot of the Spring Season
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Deborah Colton Gallery is pleased to present Moments to Remember, an exhibition featuring photography and film that capture iconic American artists and scenes from the 1960s to 1990s.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY OPENS THE MIES VAN DER ROHE BUILDING OF ITS ESKENAZI SCHOOL OF ART, ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN Rediscovered Design by Mies, Realized After 70 Years, Welcomes Faculty and Students at Start of Spring 2022 Semester Open House and Reception Scheduled for April 8, 2022 Exterior view of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, a Mies van der Rohe Design, on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. © Hadley Fruits DOWNLOAD PRESS MATERIALS BLOOMINGTON, IN, February 22, 2022 — Peg Faimon, Dean of Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, today announced that the School’s Mies van der Rohe building has opened to students, faculty, and the public for the spring semester. The building, which serves as a shared facility for the School, is the realization of a recently rediscovered 1952 design that Mies created for the Bloomington campus. The design has been sensitively adapted for contemporary use by the architectural team of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Lecture, workshop, student collaboration, administrative and office program spaces are included. Originally commissioned for an IU chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, which subsequently abandoned the project, the Mies design was all but forgotten for some sixty years. It re-emerged in 2013 when Sidney Eskenazi, a member of the former chapter, informed IU’s then-President Michael A. McRobbie of the existence of Mies’s drawings for the building. Following a trail of rediscovery, IU found documentation of the project in the archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 2019, IU announced that it would realize the 10,000-square-foot, two-story building, paying for construction with a portion of a $20 million donation from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi. The 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long building is made principally of thin, white-painted steel and expansive glass in panes measuring 10 feet square, with select gray limestone and white epoxy terrazzo. Floor-to-ceiling windows wrap around the entire second story, which features a central exterior square atrium, giving the impression of transparency throughout the building. Much of the lower level is open to the air, with the second or main story elegantly elevated above the ground plane. Architecturally, the building has a strong relationship to both the contemporaneous Farnsworth House and the massing and form of many of Mies’s early concepts for buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Select furnishings designed by Mies and Florence Knoll, respectively, have been chosen to complement the building’s design and era. Peg Faimon said, “We are thrilled to mark the opening of the Mies Building, which will enable faculty and students of all our School’s programs to come together and collaborate. Just as important, this magnificent building shows who we are, representing the excellence to which we are committed. There can be no greater inspiration for us than to learn and work in a masterpiece by this titan of twentieth-century architecture. Let us hope that it will be a lasting monument to the power of collaborations and connections of all kinds—artistic, creative, intellectual and, above all, human.” To celebrate the realization of the building, the Eskenazi School will hold a public open house and reception on April 8, 2022. There will also be an invitation-only panel discussion on the background and design of the building and the history of Mies’s work in Indiana. Moderated by Adam Thies, Indiana University Associate Vice President, Capital Planning & Facilities, the panel will include Steve Dayton, Project Architect, Thomas Phifer and Partners; Ron Johnson, Structural Engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); and Edward Windhorst, Mies van der Rohe’s biographer. Thomas Phifer and Partners is also the architect for IU’s new Ferguson International Center, currently under construction directly across North Eagleson Avenue from the Mies building of the Eskenazi School.
Rediscovered Design by Mies, Realized After 70 Years, Welcomes Faculty and Students at Start of Spring 2022 Semester
Open House and Reception Scheduled for April 8, 2022
Exterior view of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, a Mies van der Rohe Design,
on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. © Hadley Fruits
BLOOMINGTON, IN, February 22, 2022 — Peg Faimon, Dean of Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, today announced that the School’s Mies van der Rohe building has opened to students, faculty, and the public for the spring semester. The building, which serves as a shared facility for the School, is the realization of a recently rediscovered 1952 design that Mies created for the Bloomington campus. The design has been sensitively adapted for contemporary use by the architectural team of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Lecture, workshop, student collaboration, administrative and office program spaces are included.
Originally commissioned for an IU chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, which subsequently abandoned the project, the Mies design was all but forgotten for some sixty years. It re-emerged in 2013 when Sidney Eskenazi, a member of the former chapter, informed IU’s then-President Michael A. McRobbie of the existence of Mies’s drawings for the building. Following a trail of rediscovery, IU found documentation of the project in the archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 2019, IU announced that it would realize the 10,000-square-foot, two-story building, paying for construction with a portion of a $20 million donation from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi.
The 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long building is made principally of thin, white-painted steel and expansive glass in panes measuring 10 feet square, with select gray limestone and white epoxy terrazzo. Floor-to-ceiling windows wrap around the entire second story, which features a central exterior square atrium, giving the impression of transparency throughout the building. Much of the lower level is open to the air, with the second or main story elegantly elevated above the ground plane. Architecturally, the building has a strong relationship to both the contemporaneous Farnsworth House and the massing and form of many of Mies’s early concepts for buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Select furnishings designed by Mies and Florence Knoll, respectively, have been chosen to complement the building’s design and era.
Peg Faimon said, “We are thrilled to mark the opening of the Mies Building, which will enable faculty and students of all our School’s programs to come together and collaborate. Just as important, this magnificent building shows who we are, representing the excellence to which we are committed. There can be no greater inspiration for us than to learn and work in a masterpiece by this titan of twentieth-century architecture. Let us hope that it will be a lasting monument to the power of collaborations and connections of all kinds—artistic, creative, intellectual and, above all, human.”
To celebrate the realization of the building, the Eskenazi School will hold a public open house and reception on April 8, 2022. There will also be an invitation-only panel discussion on the background and design of the building and the history of Mies’s work in Indiana. Moderated by Adam Thies, Indiana University Associate Vice President, Capital Planning & Facilities, the panel will include Steve Dayton, Project Architect, Thomas Phifer and Partners; Ron Johnson, Structural Engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); and Edward Windhorst, Mies van der Rohe’s biographer.
Thomas Phifer and Partners is also the architect for IU’s new Ferguson International Center, currently under construction directly across North Eagleson Avenue from the Mies building of the Eskenazi School.
Rediscovered Design by Mies, Realized After 70 Years, Welcomes Faculty and Students at Start of Spring 2022 Semester
Open House and Reception Scheduled for April 8, 2022
Exterior view of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, a Mies van der Rohe Design,
on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. © Hadley Fruits
BLOOMINGTON, IN, February 22, 2022 — Peg Faimon, Dean of Indiana University’s Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, today announced that the School’s Mies van der Rohe building has opened to students, faculty, and the public for the spring semester. The building, which serves as a shared facility for the School, is the realization of a recently rediscovered 1952 design that Mies created for the Bloomington campus. The design has been sensitively adapted for contemporary use by the architectural team of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Lecture, workshop, student collaboration, administrative and office program spaces are included.
Originally commissioned for an IU chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, which subsequently abandoned the project, the Mies design was all but forgotten for some sixty years. It re-emerged in 2013 when Sidney Eskenazi, a member of the former chapter, informed IU’s then-President Michael A. McRobbie of the existence of Mies’s drawings for the building. Following a trail of rediscovery, IU found documentation of the project in the archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 2019, IU announced that it would realize the 10,000-square-foot, two-story building, paying for construction with a portion of a $20 million donation from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi.
The 60-foot-wide, 140-foot-long building is made principally of thin, white-painted steel and expansive glass in panes measuring 10 feet square, with select gray limestone and white epoxy terrazzo. Floor-to-ceiling windows wrap around the entire second story, which features a central exterior square atrium, giving the impression of transparency throughout the building. Much of the lower level is open to the air, with the second or main story elegantly elevated above the ground plane. Architecturally, the building has a strong relationship to both the contemporaneous Farnsworth House and the massing and form of many of Mies’s early concepts for buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Select furnishings designed by Mies and Florence Knoll, respectively, have been chosen to complement the building’s design and era.
Peg Faimon said, “We are thrilled to mark the opening of the Mies Building, which will enable faculty and students of all our School’s programs to come together and collaborate. Just as important, this magnificent building shows who we are, representing the excellence to which we are committed. There can be no greater inspiration for us than to learn and work in a masterpiece by this titan of twentieth-century architecture. Let us hope that it will be a lasting monument to the power of collaborations and connections of all kinds—artistic, creative, intellectual and, above all, human.”
To celebrate the realization of the building, the Eskenazi School will hold a public open house and reception on April 8, 2022. There will also be an invitation-only panel discussion on the background and design of the building and the history of Mies’s work in Indiana. Moderated by Adam Thies, Indiana University Associate Vice President, Capital Planning & Facilities, the panel will include Steve Dayton, Project Architect, Thomas Phifer and Partners; Ron Johnson, Structural Engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); and Edward Windhorst, Mies van der Rohe’s biographer.
Thomas Phifer and Partners is also the architect for IU’s new Ferguson International Center, currently under construction directly across North Eagleson Avenue from the Mies building of the Eskenazi School.
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