Minimalist Artworks Sale at Christie’s Uncovers Art Tradition

Donald Judd’s Untitled, one of the artworks by artists to go on auction at Christie’s Minimalist Artworks Sale. Estimate: $ 20,000-30,000. Image: Christie’s.

ART AUCTION

Artwork by famous artists expected to make auction record at Christie’s Minimalist Artworks Sale inNew York.

BY ARTCENTRON

NEW YORK, NY – Over 160 works by minimalist artists will go on sale at Christie’s New York on July 25^th during the Forms in Color art sale. The sale will include sculptures, paintings, drawings, and editions on paper, by over sixty leading minimalist artists. They include Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Sol Lewitt, and Yayoi Kusama among others.

The collection of artwork for sale shows the experimental and restless nature of the minimalist artists. The artists explored a variety of media to create artworks that have come to shape art history.  One of the major highlights of this art auction is a selection of complete sets of prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Frank Stella, and Robert Mangold. Often not seen on the market as complete sets, this sale offers a rare collecting opportunity for these artists. Also featured in the sale are exceptional stand-alone prints such as Kelly’s Red Curve (estimate:  $3,000-5,000).

Also included in the minimalist artworks sale are both original and editioned artworks by Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, and Donald Judd.  Lewitt’s #8  has an estimate of  $60,000-80,000, while  Kusama’s Untitled is estimated at  $18,000-25,000.  Judd’s aluminum multiple Untitled has an estimate of $50,000-70,000. The estimates further the minimalist convention of this sale.

Forms in Color includes not only the works of minimalist masters and their surrounding circle but also contemporary artists. These artists are continuing this aesthetic and intellectual tradition of minimalism. The list includes Xylor Jane, Marcia Hafif, Stephen Row, Nigel Hall, Ken Price, and David Ellis.

According to Christie’s, there is something for everyone in this artwork sale. With estimates ranging from $400 to $100,000, this sale has artworks for seasoned and new collectors alike. There is great expectation that this art sale of minimalism art and post-minimalism art will advance  even greater interest  in art collecting  amongst new art collectors

ART QUOTE: DONALD JUDD

Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.” Donald Judd, Specific Objects, Arts Yearbook 8, 1965.