The auction house is offering seminal works by the artists to an already star-studded event
Christie’s is adding blockbuster works by Andy Warhol and René Magritte to its marquee sale of 20th-century art in New York next month.
Warhol’s black-and-white silk screen Sixteen Jackies is a 4-x-4 grid of a press photo taken of Jacqueline Kennedy during the funeral procession of her husband, John F. Kennedy, in 1963. The 6-and-a-half foot tall painting is one of five Warhol created, but the only one to repeat the same image in the grid and the only one in black-and-white, Christie’s said in a news release. It was first owned by Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.
Magritte’s L’empire des lumières is also from a celebrated series, in this case, the first of 17 oils the artist painted over 15 years that simultaneously depict day and night. A 1961 example fetched a record £59.4 million , with fees, at Sotheby’s in March 2022 in London, while a 1951 painting from the series, from record producer Mo Ostin’s collection, sold at Sotheby’s this past May in New York for US$42.3 million, with fees.
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