Gallery Tour: 20th Century & Contemporary Art | London | Spring 2021

Hello and welcome to Philips. I'm here to take you on a tour of some of the highlights from our forthcoming 20th and 21st Century Evening Auction, taking place in London on the 15th of April. I want to start our journey here. This is Jean Dubuffet's masterpiece, La Féconde Journée, The Fruitful Day. This is one of the most significant works from the Théâtre de Mémoire series ever to come to auction. Over here, we've got four icons of female portraiture. Tamara de Lempicka, Andy Warhol's Reversal Marilyn, and here Marcel Duchamp's infamous L.H.O.O.Q., The Moustache of Mona Lisa and John Curran's Girl in Bed. And two beautiful sculptures, one by Marino Marini, which is coming from the esteemed collection of Florence Knoll. On my left here, we've got L.N. Atsui's resplendent Bottle Top Tapestry. He intricately laces the bottle tops together to create these undulating fields of colour. On my left here, we have François-Xavier Lalanne's Chouette de Touteux. We've got Frank Stella's beautiful concentric grid painting, Scramble, The Study for Nocturne by Mark Tansey, and this amazing monumental crushed metal sculpture by John Chamberlain. These four works are coming from a private collection in Belgium, where they've been with the current owner for over 10 years. We're very excited to have them for sale. This is Banksy's Gas Mask Boy. It shows Banksy playing with the notion of landscape purity, air purity, and the climate crisis. Making her auction debut, this is Lina Iris Victor's Constellations, executed on a grand scale with this mesmerising patterning of gold and black. Here we have Mark Rothko's untitled Black Blue painting from 1968. We have the two fields of colour variegated in their use of paint that gives a sense as if you're looking at the ocean's horizon line. And here in this part of the view, we've got some extraordinary contemporary artists. Toya Nodatola, Tunji Edeni-Jones, Two Women by Matthew Wong is a beautiful landscape painting, and it shows his engagement with the art of the past. This is Joy Lubinjo's Untitled. This is an extraordinary work with highly stylised, painterly techniques. Here at Philips, our digital first approach means that we can be with you wherever you are. You can make an appointment to FaceTime in front of any of these works with one of our specialists, or you can take our virtual reality tour. We'll be open to the public from the 12th of April and able to welcome you in person.