At Auction: Contemporary Art

June 14
1:30 pm

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street,
New York, NY 10010
Contact: Todd Weyman
+1 (212) 254-4710, extension 32
tweyman@swanngalleries.com
www.swanngalleries.com

This sale of Contemporary Art offers a strong selection, including originals by Harland Miller, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol, prints by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Motherwell and more. The sale also features a selection of contemporary photography, including works by Nan Goldin, Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Glenn Ligon, Dennis Hopper, Anthony Goicolea and others.

Some photographs in the sale are part of portfolios, like Dennis Hopper's high-contrast image from The Geldzahler Portfolio, shown above, which also boasts prints by Roberto Clemente, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and David Salle. The portfolio, a "working proof" set aside from the edition of 75, was published by The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, New York, 1998. It also includes a video tape of Andy Warhol's movie Henry Geldzahler, 1964.

The 1989 Portfolio, also published by The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS features the Cindy Sherman photograph shown below, as well as works by Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson and others.