African Art At Auction | Joe Pollitt Collection

Today, we making HISTORY - African Art aligns itself and it's influence of all things Modern thanks to the Joe Pollitt Collection being presented at Lots Road, Chelsea, London this coming weekend. The Auction comes up on Sunday but regardless of the outcome we are witnesses to a shift in global thinking about Africa, Art and Modernity.

Comment from Joe Pollitt

"I have, for the longest time, wanted to achieve this in my lifetime, to make that connection of European Modernity and the importance and influence of Africa and with the assistance of Bob Hayton at Lots Road Auction we have achieved the impossible. .This Sale will go down in the history of African Art and will certainly be the Best Tribal Art Sale of all time."

Lots Road Auctions, CHELSEA, This Sunday.


Lots Road Auctioneers

Sunday 21st June 2015

12pm until 3pm

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71 Lots Road Auctions,
Chelsea,
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SW10 0RN.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7376 6800
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This is history in the making..Wonderful stuff.
 

 Lot 441 - Estimated £1000 - £1500 - FANG TRIBAL MASKS, a group of three on stands, largest 64cm H plus a print showing the influence of similar masks upon the artist Modigliani. (3) [Provenance - Joe Pollitt Collection

Lot 442 - Estimated £500 - £800 - FANG TRIBAL MASKS, two various carved wood with white pigment, largest 35cm H plus two prints showing the influence of similar masks upon the artist Modigliani. (2) [Provenance - Joe Pollitt Collection]

Lot 443 - Estimated £800 - £1200 - PENDE TRIBAL MASKS, two various both carved wood with white painted detail, largest 51cm H has opposing faces, smallest 23cm H with stands, plus two prints showing the similarity to the works of Francis Bacon. (2) [Provenance - Joe Pollitt Collection]

From Egyptian Sexuality to Modern Women Pleasing Themselves. Female Nudes from Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

 

After watching the Egyptians let us move into our present Modern with Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele

Contributions by Alessandra Comini, James T. Demetrion, Johannes Dobai, and Thomas M. Messer
Published in 1965
124 pages

Softcover

This publication brings together the work of two Austrian artists—Gustav Klimt and his former student Egon Schiele. Although independent in their style and depiction of their subject, common threads are manifest in the oeuvre of both artists. The two share a certain anxiety and preoccupation with the erotic, yet stylistically Klimt's work is formally ordered and decorative while Schiele's work is unforgiving in its brutality. This exhibition focuses specifically on the output produced late within Klimt's career, while approaching Schiele's work from a retrospective standpoint. The catalogue discusses each artist separately and includes a chronology, essay, and an illustrated exhibition checklist, providing an engrossing insight into the work of two distinctive artists who can be credited with catalyzing the transition from Art Nouveau to Expressionism. When considered together the vibrancy and singularity of each body of work is made evident.

Excerpt

Where Klimt is ornamentally decorous, Schiele is often indecorously expressive. Klimt's meticulously structured mosaic compositions are opposite in concept and execution from Schiele's sure and daring linear scheme, as are Klimt's subtly balanced tonal effects when seen in juxtaposition with Schiele's fauve and eventually expressionist use of color. Klimt strives through formal means to attain an order that, not unlike Mondrian's, reduces spontaneous and individual components to a collective validity. Schiele, in contrast more like Klee, transcribes highly personal insights which then assume the power of evoking common experiences. Above all, Klimt, despite his current relevance to modern art, must be seen as a late exponent of an historic style, whereas Schiele raises to the most intense pitch the newly acquired awareness of 20th century man. Together, Klimt and Schiele signify an end and a beginning, and at one poignant moment their adjoining forms point simultaneously backward and forward to comprise the past and future in a fleeting present.

This is the documentary about the first for The Lady in Gold - An Austrian National Treasure - Stolen by the Nazis.