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Fashion & art come together at Christie's London in June

05 Jun '07

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Pop sensibility combines with quintessential all-American apple pie in Mel Ramos' (b. 1935) Miss American Legion, 1964 (estimate: £500,000-800,000), in which Ramos' trademark image of a scantily clad 'pin-up' girl is depicted as if playing a role in a commercial publicising the American Legion.

Lisa Yuskavage's (b. 1962) Dark Garden II, 2003 (estimate: £300,000-400,000) is a strange and brooding picture filled with a sinister sensuality and sexuality. A deliberate and postfeminist play on the idea of representations of women as objects of desire, Yuskavage takes the stereotype, twisting and exaggerating it in order to somehow devalue it.

A similar sinister atmosphere can be found in Peter Doig's (b. 1959) Target, 2000 (estimate: £700,000-900,000). Doig uses old snapshots and film stills as the sources for his art and his works are often fuelled by a stifling, even sinister atmosphere, as though the pictures were photos lying around an abandoned house, or a frozen moment from a larger narrative of which the viewer can never really discover anything.

A further seven works from Works From The Ernesto Esposito Collection will be offered in Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 21 June 2007. Pop Art is well represented throughout the collection and works by Andy Warhol dominate with Dollar Sign, 1981 (estimate: £120,000-180,000) and Hammer and Sickle, 1976 (estimate: £150,000-200,000) leading the sale.

Works by other Pop artists include American Keith Haring (1958-1990), Untitled (Mr. Softee), 1985 (estimate: £120,000 - 180,000) and Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara's (b. 1960), Tamago, 2000 (estimate: £150,000-200,000).

Amongst the selection of conceptual and sculptural pieces from the collection is Dan Flavin's (1933-1996) red and pink fluorescent light Untitled (to Barbara Wool) which was executed in 1970 and is number one from an edition of three (estimate: £150,000-200,000).

American sculptor Donald Judd (1928-1994) is represented by Untitled, circa 1991 (estimate: £200,000-300,000) and conceptual pioneer, Sol Lewitt (1928-2007) by Hanging Complex Form, 1989 (estimate: £100,000-150,000).

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