Christie’s will open an exhibition of works on mortgage from the Pinault Assortment, the non-public assortment of French billionaire François Pinault—whose holding firm Groupe Artémis owns the public sale home—within the coming weeks at Christie’s Beverly Hills gallery.
The non-selling present, known as Eye Contact: An Invitation to the Pinault Assortment, is ready to run from 22 January to twenty-eight March, coinciding with the artwork world’s migration to Los Angeles for the annual Frieze truthful beginning on 20 February.
The exhibition will embody 16 portraits by eight up to date artists: Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Llyn Foulkes, Pope.L, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Thomas Houseago. The present may even embody an out of doors sculpture set up on Christie’s Beverly Hills terrace by Houseago. Greater than half of the works deal with human figuration, in accordance with Christie’s. The theme was chosen by the Pinault Assortment’s curatorial staff.
“For greater than 25 years, Christie’s has been privileged to have as its proprietor a distinguished collector with a deep ardour for up to date artwork and artists,” Christie’s chief government Guillaume Cerutti stated in a press release. “For the primary time, Christie’s could have the honour of exhibiting a number of works from his assortment.”
Pinault’s assortment of greater than 10,000 works, starting from the Nineteen Sixties to the current day, is often placed on show in its three everlasting museums in Venice and Paris.
Final month, Christie’s introduced a drop in annual gross sales for the second yr working with its projected 2024 gross sales (some gross sales had been but to shut in mid-December). Christie’s introduced in $5.7bn throughout all gross sales of artwork and luxurious items, a lower of 6% from the $6.1bn the earlier yr.
