S.I. Newhouse
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Event date 5月11日 -
Event location New York
Highlights from the S.I. Newhouse Collection
Discover one of the greatest art collections of the 20th century
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‘He lived in the now’: the legacy of S.I. Newhouse
The Condé Nast co-owner's collection returns to Christie's with a selection of works that reflect a lifetime of influence
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Abstraction in black and white: Willem de Kooning’s Orestes crystallised a new era in painting
This work from the artist’s black and white period provides myriad viewpoints into the origins of his process and style
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A pure acceptance of the self: Francis Bacon’s 1969 Self-Portrait
The dynamic painting offers a remarkably personal study of the artist, during a period when he rarely painted himself
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Endlessly breaking boundaries: three paintings by Jasper Johns
One of Si Newhouse’s favourite artists, Johns held a special place in the media magnate’s legendary collection
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Discover Picasso’s vivacious portrait of photographer Lee Miller that the artist kept for his personal collection
The painting not only encapsulates treasured friendship and carefree summers in the South of France, but also stands as a symbol of defiance in the face of fascism
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Masterpieces from The Collection of S.I. Newhouse
A group of 11 revolutionary works, led by the iconic Rabbit by Jeff Koons and Cezanne’s Bouilloire et fruits, realises $216,287,500 when offered during 20th Century Week in New York in May
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Rabbit by Jeff Koons — a chance to own the controversy
Vacuous, disposable and deathless. Exuberant, celebratory and perfect. There is little that has not been said about Jeff Koons’s seminal 1986 sculpture, which sold for $91,075,000 on 15 May
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Remembering Si Newhouse, a ‘unique and legendary collector’
Curator, author and art historian Mark Rosenthal shares his unique insights into a man for whom collecting art was the act of falling in love again and again
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Metal rabbit or the ultimate, all-encompassing modern icon?
Art critic and author Blake Gopnik plugs Jeff Koons’s iconic, era-defining sculpture into 500 years of art history, tracing its lineage back to the moment when ‘High Art’ was born
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Arbres dans le jardin de l’asile — A dazzling work from Van Gogh’s final crescendo
Following his admittance to Saint-Paul-de-Mausol in May 1889, the artist painted some of his finest works in a bout of cathartic creativity.
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Little Electric Chair — the defining image of Andy Warhol’s ‘Death and Disasters’ series
In this iconic, haunting image painted in 1964-65, Warhol reveals the underside of America’s consumerist and capitalist culture. It sold for $8,220,000 on 15 May in New York
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A Francis Bacon masterpiece from The Collection of S.I. Newhouse
Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, from the collection of the mastermind behind Condé Nast and one of the greatest art collectors of the 20th century, realises $21,687,500 in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York