Andy Warhols 1962 Statue of Liberty could fetch more than $35 million when its auctioned on Nov. 14 at Christies in New York. <\/p>\n
The statue is depicted 24 times, in four rows of six images. Silkscreened in red over green ink on white background, the work has a three-dimensional effect. <\/p>\n
If you put on 3-D glasses, it becomes a grainy, black and white 3-D photograph, said Brett Gorvy, chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christies. Well be giving 3-D glasses with our catalogs. <\/p>\n
Two other examples of Warhols 1962 experimentations with 3-D are Optical Car Crash, which is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, and another Statue of Liberty from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n
In the 1960s, 3-D was known from the horror movies, Gorvy said. Warhol actually made a 3-D movie in the 1970s. It was about Frankenstein. <\/p>\n
The choice of colors is connected to works in Warhols Death and Disaster series, which often are in strong greens or strong reds. A painting from the series, Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), (1963) sold for $71.7 million in 2007 and remains Warhols auction record. <\/p>\n
Statue of Liberty had belonged to German entrepreneur Erich Marx, whose art collection became the core of the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary-art museum in Berlin. The work was later acquired by the Daros Collection in Zurich, which sold it privately in the past decade to the current consigner, according to Gorvy. <\/p>\n
Statue of Liberty will appear in the same sale as Warhols 1966 portrait of leather-clad Marlon Brando on a motorcycle, expected to bring about $20 million. Titled Marlon, the work comes from the collection of Donald L. Bryant, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art who bought it for $5 million at Christies in 2003. <\/p>\n
So far, the highest estimate of the November auctions in New York belongs to Rothkos 1954 No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue), valued between $35 million and $50 million. It will be offered at Sothebys evening sale of contemporary art on Nov. 13. <\/p>\n
Muse highlights include Rich Jaroslovsky on technology, Manuela Hoelterhoff on the arts. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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