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PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FROM ITS NEW YORK THEME SALE: FILM

AUCTION TO OFFER EXCITING WORKS BY ANDY WARHOL, ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, GREGORY CREWDSON, YOUSSEF NABIL, HELMUT NEWTON & BRUCE NAUMAN

GROUP OF SIX EXEMPLARY PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE LATE DENNIS HOPPER TO BE SOLD

SALE DATE: JUNE 24, 2010 2PM

VIEWING: JUNE 19 - 24, 2010

LOCATION Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 West 15th Street, New York, NY10011

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New York- Following the success of the previous Theme sales, Phillips de Pury Silvano Campeggi Marlon Brando in The Wild One, 1945 & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming FILM Estimate $10,000 – 15,000 auction.

The film catalogue includes an editorial feature on Isabella Rosselini’s creative passions and exploration of her latest work, “Seduce me”, the late Dennis Hopper revealed, and other interviews with avant garde artists Francesco Vezzoli, and Kutlug Ataman .

Highlights of the FILM auction include: Dennis Hopper Silvano Campeggi’s, Marlon Brando in The Wild One, 1945, estimated Willie Thomas , 1965 Estimate $7,000 – 9,000 at $10,000 – 15,000. Silvano “Nano” Campeggi is often referred to as Florence’s Greatest Living Artist. Campeggi produced over 3000 posters and graphic illustrations for such major filmmakers as MGM Studios, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal, Columbia Pictures, United Artists, RKO, and Fox. 64. Many of the films whose posters he illustrated won Oscars, including Casablanca, Ben Hur, Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris, West Side Story, Exodus, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Gigi. In the 1950s and 1960s, Campeggi became known as The Artist to the Stars. Today, his larger-than-life images of Hollywood’s greatest actresses are instantly recognizable cultural icons: the regal bearing of Grace Kelly; the smoky essence of Elizabeth Taylor; a green-eyed Lauren Bacall, sly and sultry in beret and cape; a perfectly coiffed Ava Gardner radiating power and control; a towering Rita Hayworth as the unobtainable, unconquerable redhead; a radiant Sophia Loren displaying as much worldly, earth-mother warmth and wisdom as she does sheer beauty. Ron English Hollywood’s male stars also fell captive to Nano’s discerning eye: Marlon Large Marilyn Red Peach Brando cockily astride his Harley as The Wild One; James Dean, bare-chested, Estimate $10,000-15,000

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exuding rawness, arrogance and testosterone; a dusty, trail-weary John Wayne sporting his signature neck kerchief and broad-rimmed cowboy hat; Humphrey Bogart in his trademark white dinner jacket (a masterpiece of dramatic shadow and attitude), and so many others.

Frank Worth’s Luxury Collectors Portfolio, 1939-1958, estimated at $12,000 – 18,000. Subjects in the photograph include all-time icons and legends who have come to symbolize timeless Hollywood glamour, such as Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Wiliiam Holden, Cary Grant, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dennis Hopper and Jane Wyman, amongst others.

Herman Makkink’s ,,, “Rocking Machine” kinetic sculpture, 1969, estimated at $20,000-25,000. Featured in Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange , the “Rocking Machine” was not designed especially for the film. Rather, it formed part of Makkink’s studio work at the time, and, after seeing them, Kubrick decided to use them for the film for their futuristic look. Movements of the late Frank Worth sixties and early seventies, including Pop Art and the sexual revolution, had Luxury Collectors Portfolio, 1939-1958 influenced Makkink’s designs. Estimate $12,000 – 18,000

Mounir Fatmi’s, Ecran Noir N°1 , 2005, estimated at $30,000 – 40,000. A vast mural composition, Ecrans noirs at first glance appears to be a large-scale painting but in fact is conceived from hundreds of VHS cassettes. These cassettes, in a departure from their characteristic usage, are transformed into decorative elements, creating a work that rings back to the geometric compositions of concrete or minimalist art. In accordance with these principals, the elements of motif repetition and the economy of means are prevalent throughout the work. However, what makes both the artist and the work so strong is the direct challenge Ecrans noirs brings to the basis of concrete art, namely that art should not symbolize or represent anything further than what we see. The work comments on the power of images, from ones we have seen to ones we only think we have seen, from images we are shown to those that we interpret. The semiotic value of this wall of objects (and Herman Makkink hidden images) is compounded by the fact that media images can often be “Rocking Machine” kinetic sculpture, 1969 visual decoys. This powerful work serves to reinforce the artist’s inquiry into Estimate $20,000-25,000 the degree of reality and the level of truth found in each individual image.

Following the success of a selection of works by Dennis Hopper offered in our May Contemporary Art sales from the collection of Halsey Minor, and in anticipation of the upcoming Dennis Hopper retrospective to be held at LA MOCA this summer, we are pleased to offer several strong representative works by the late, great actor and artist, including Willie Thomas , 1965, and News is Daily Again , 1963, each estimated at $7,000 – 9,000.

Other notable works that will feature in the sale include: Youssef Nabil’s Rossy De Palma, Madrid , 2002, estimated at $18,000 – 22,000; Ron English’s Large Marilyn Red Peach, estimated at $10,000-15,000; Gregory Crewdson’s

Untitled (Dead cow discovery) from Twilight, 1998, estimated at $10,000 – 15,000; Mounir Fatmi, Jonathan Horowitz’s Best Actress (24 works), 2001, estimated at $15,000- Ecran Noir N°1 , 2005 20,000; Alan Aldridge’s Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, 1971, estimated at Estimate $30,000 – 40,000

$15,000 – 20,000, and Firooz Zahedi’s Uma Thurman/ Pulp Fiction, 1994, estimated at $6,000 – 8,000.

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Youssef Nabil Rossy De Palma, Madrid , 2002 Estimate $18,000 – 22,000

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Contacts:

Giulia Costantini Head of Communications [email protected] + 44 20 7318 4010

Dennis Hopper Fiona McGovern News is Daily Again, 1963 Estimate $7,000 – 9,000 Communications Assistant [email protected] + 44 20 7318 4010

Jonathan Horowitz Best Actress (24 works), 2001 Estimate $15,000 – 20,000

Gregory Crewdson Untitled (Dead cow discovery) from Twilight, 1998 Estimate $10,000 – 15,000

Alan Aldridge Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, 1971 Estimate $15,000 – 20,000