Anselm Kiefer, Winter Ade Scheiden Tut Weh Aberdein Scheiden Macht, Dass Mein Herz Lacht (Goodbye, Winter, Parting Hurts But Your Departure Makes My Heart Cheer), 2010
Listed at $100,000
Last night at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery on Chrystie street in the Lower East Side of New York, West-Village-based Foundation for Contemporary Arts held a benefit auction selling nearly 200 paintings and sculptures. All proceeds went to programs of the FCA, “hoping to assist and encourage innovation, experimentation and potential in the arts,” this year providing 14 grants to artists, of $25k each.
A view from the balcony
The benefit was extremely well attended, with some of the artists joining as well. The large number of works represented a variety of globally well-known artists, including Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Brice Marden, Francesco Clemente, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Julie Mehretu, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, David Salle, Frank Stella, Elizabeth Neel, Julian Opie, Cecily Brown, Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Nate Lowman, Dan Colen, Dana Schutz, Kara Walker, and T.J. Wilcox, to name a few.
More photos after the jump…
At the entrance
Cecily Brown, The Torment of St. Anthony, 2010
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Die Whopper, 2009
Dan Colen, An Almost Perfect Sky, 2010
George Condo, Man and Woman, 2010
Willem de Kooning, Untitled, 1965-80
Tara Donovan, Untitled, 2009
Tracey Emin, Standing Alone No. 1, 1999
Inka Essenhigh, Eternal Fame, 2010
Damien Hirst, Beautiful Two Paths Painting with Butterflies, 2007
$575,000
Japser Johns, 0-9, 2010
Jeff Koons, Puppy (Vase), 1998
Robert Longo, Untitled (After A.R.1), 2008
Brice Marden, Study-Nevis 1, 2009
Ed Ruscha, Smart Enough, 2010
Andy Warhol, Lynn Wyatt, 1980
$550,000
The crowd
Lawrence Weiner, The Salt of the Earth Mingled with the Salt of the Sea, 1996
Sculpture table
Mickalene Thomas, Mama Bush: (Your love keeps lifting me) higher and higher, 2009
Joyce Pensato, Monkey Mickey, 2008
Sara VanDerBeek, Dancer Study 1, Merce Cunnigham, 2010
Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Windmill, 1974
Kara Walker, Lessons for Proverbial Daughters and Study in Meaninglessness, 2010
Rosy Keyser, Precipitated Mass, 2010
Out the door
Related Links:
Foundation for Contemporary Arts [Official Site]
Lehmann Maupin Gallery [Official Site]
