April 7th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
On 23 & 24 April 2010, Phillips de Pury & Company in London will stage the inaugural sale of contemporary art from Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Acknowledged as the four largest high-growth emerging economies, the BRIC countries have also distinguished themselves with a budding contemporary art scene, represented by a stable of major artistic talents.
Reflecting the increasing interest in contemporary art coming from the BRIC countries, the BRIC sales offer a ground-breaking collection of approximately 450 lots, meticulously selected across Contemporary Art, Photography and Design with an overall pre-sale estimate of £9,000,000 – £13,000,000.
Viewing and Auction Location
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4SQ
Evening Sale Friday 23 April 2010 – 5 pm
China Day Sale Saturday 24 April 2010 – 11 am
India Day Sale Saturday 24 April 2010 – 1 pm
Russia Day Sale Saturday 24 April 2010 – 3 pm
Brazil Day Sale Saturday 24 April 2010 – 5pm
Visit: www.phillipsdepury.com for further information
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BRIC is a term that was first used in 2001 by Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs. The four letters stand for Brazil, Russia, India and China, the main emerging economies. Since then you cannot open the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal without there being extensive coverage on the dynamic BRIC economies. Floriane de Saint Pierre, the star head hunter of the luxury industry, rightly pointed out that it is condescending to speak of emerging economies but far more appropriate to speak of fast-growing economies.
Whenever there is a strong economic upturn in a region or a country it goes hand in hand with a vibrant creative surge in the artistic areas. This is nowhere as obvious as in Brazil, Russia, India and China. It therefore seemed to us more than overdue to, for the very first time, put the spotlight on the extraordinary cultural achievements of the BRIC countries. In the art world, like in the business world, decades of ‘westernization’ are rapidly being replaced by an ‘easternization’.
We are most grateful to Charles Saatchi, the ultimate taste maker in the contemporary art world, to let us use the totality of his fabulous Saatchi Gallery to display a rich sampling of the best that BRIC contemporary culture has to offer. While we will devote an unprecedented amount of gallery space to display the contents of this sale we have decided to also devote an unprecedented amount of editorial space in the catalog.
Thanks to our able colleague Karen Wright we have included articles, amongst others, on Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, the towering Russian artists, and to Ai WeiWei, the outstanding Chinese artist whose recent one-man show at the Haus der Kunst is one of the best exhibitions I have ever seen. Uli Sigg is the pioneer collector who is at the centre of the international interest for contemporary art from China.
Music is also a seminal part of contemporary culture. Thanks to Alban de Pury we have been able to secure the unique talents of Nitin Sawhney and of Gilles Peterson, the best world music DJ, who will both perform at the opening party for BRIC.
SIMON de PURY, Chairman Phillips de Pury and Company
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Lot 125 – Frank Kozik, Mao, 2009
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