Donating great art to museums since 1910. The Contemporary Art Society is a national charity that encourages an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art in the UK. With the help of our members and supporters we raise funds to purchase works by new artists which we give to museums and public galleries where they are enjoyed by a national audience; we broker significant and rare works of art by important artists of the twentieth century for public collections through our networks of patrons and private collectors; we establish relationships to commission artworks and Tuesday 24 March 2015 promote contemporary art in public spaces; and we devise programmes of displays, artist talks and educational events. Old Billingsgate Since 1910 we have donated over 8,000 works to museums 1 Old Billingsgate Walk (Riverside) and public galleries - from Bacon, Freud, Hepworth and 16 Lower Thames Street Moore in their day through to the influential artists of our London EC3R 6DX own times - championing new talent, supporting curators, and encouraging philanthropy and collecting in the UK. www.contemporaryartsociety.org AUCTION CATALOGUE Tuesday 24 March 2015 Old Billingsgate 1 Old Billingsgate Walk (Riverside) 16 Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6DX CONTENTS How to Bid page 5 Welcome page 9 Chairman’s Welcome page 10 Director’s Introduction page 11 The Kaleidoscope Committee page 14 LIVE AUCTION SILENT AUCTION LOTS page 16 LOTS page 24 1 Antony Gormley 8 Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou 2 Edmund de Waal 9 Salvatore Arancio 3 Roksanda Ilincic 10 Jyll Bradley 4 Sicily 11 Stuart Cumberland 5 Steven Claydon 12 Ida Ekblad 6 Shezad Dawood 13 Peter Fraser 7 Mark Hix at Mat Collishaw 14 Simon Fujiwara 15 Richard Gasper 16 Lothar Götz 17 Anne Hardy 18 Eloise Hawser 19 Raphael Hefti 20 John Hilliard 21 Lubaina Himid 22 Marlborough Contemporary 23 Nathaniel Mellors 24 Mark Neville 25 Djordje Ozbolt 26 St Paul de Vence 27 Amalia Pica 28 Clunie Reid 29 George Shaw 30 Lucy Skaer 31 Sebastian Stöhrer 32 Margo Trushina 33 Lorenzo Vitturi 34 William Wegman 35 Jesse Wine Thank You For Your Support page 57 36 Richard Woods Partners & Supporters page 58 37 Young Patronage Conditions of Business page 59 38 Martin Creed Auctioneer page 61 The Auction page 62 How to Use iBid page 63 HOW TO MAKE A BID OR PLEDGE 1 Click on your name on the touch screen keypad and chose your own 4-digit pin number. 2 To scroll through the items use the ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ buttons. For more information on one of the items, or to make a bid or pledge, tap on the grey panel. 3 To make a bid or pledge tap the ‘Bid’ or ‘Pledge’ button. You can now enter the amount that you would like to bid or pledge. 4 You will then be informed if your bid or pledge has been accepted. If your bid is lower than the current bid or is invalid, you will have the option to enter a higher amount. 5 You may bid on the silent auction or pledge a donation at any time during the evening. Fine Art shipping, packing and storage, including major gallery and museum expertise 7 Glasshouse Walk London SE11 5ES United Kingdom t: +44 (0)20 7735 0566 HAUSER & WIRTH SOMERSET f: +44 (0)20 7793 0137 SMILJAN RADIĆ RADIĆ PAVILION FROM 21 MARCH 2015 DURSLADE FARM, DROPPING LANE BRUTON, SOMERSET BA10 0NL [email protected] WWW.HAUSERWIRTHSOMERSET.COM www.martinspeed.com SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2014 DESIGNED BY SMILJAN RADIĆ PHOTO © 2014 JOHN OFFENBACH 01172015005_DU_HWLO_186x256_smrst_Radic_Kaleidoscope_rechts.indd 1 06.02.15 10:47 HAUSER & WIRTH SOMERSET SMILJAN RADIĆ RADIĆ PAVILION FROM 21 MARCH 2015 DURSLADE FARM, DROPPING LANE BRUTON, SOMERSET BA10 0NL WWW.HAUSERWIRTHSOMERSET.COM SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2014 DESIGNED BY SMILJAN RADIĆ PHOTO © 2014 JOHN OFFENBACH 01172015005_DU_HWLO_186x256_smrst_Radic_Kaleidoscope_rechts.indd 1 06.02.15 10:47 A NEW BREED OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CLUB IN THE HEART OF MAYFAIR, OPENING IN MAY 2015 For information, please contact [email protected] www.12hayhill.com 12 Hay Hill is the hub of the evolving business community, and is proud to support the Contemporary Art Society WELCOME Alice Channer Roger Hiorns Conrad Shawcross Phoebe Unwin Mark Wallinger Richard Wentworth Jane & Louise Wilson Rose Wylie Artist Ambassadors Roksanda Ilincic Honorary Chair Christopher Jonas Chairman Contemporary Art Society A NEW BREED OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CLUB Caroline Douglas IN THE HEART OF MAYFAIR, OPENING IN MAY 2015 Director Contemporary Art Society All welcome you to KALEIDOSCOPE For information, please contact [email protected] www.12hayhill.com 12 Hay Hill is the hub of the evolving business community, and is proud to support the Contemporary Art Society 9 CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME he theme of this year’s event, Art Society; they are a dedicated and KALEIDOSCOPE: Colour in Motion, dynamic group of individuals, and I would is intended as a burst of colour like to thank them all for the help they have announcing spring in the last days given in supporting our gala fundraiser Tof winter. The theme was chosen by the in its critical role furthering the ambitious Contemporary Art Society Gala Committee work of the Society. I should also express to present an event that reflects energy and my great admiration of the staff of the exuberance as well as beauty; it is a theme Contemporary Art Society who work so also explored through carnival and fashion intelligently, not just on the fundraiser, but as well as design, and as such it lends itself on all they continue to do to ensure that well to celebration. We invite you to enjoy the organisation prospers and succeeds. your evening with us, knowing that the Caroline Douglas, our Director, has given proceeds will support the Contemporary the gala inspired direction and insight and Art Society’s important mission to buy has brought to this challenge her ambition new work by living artists for museums and unparalleled expertise. Dida Tait has across the UK. superbly orchestrated this event with her With this gala, the Contemporary Art usual finesse, and tireless positivity. Society has assembled a range of works Finally, we are most especially grateful by prominent established artists as well to our evening’s sponsors: Hauser & Wirth, as younger emerging artists who implicitly Lexington Partners, Martinspeed, Sadie Coles and some explicitly explore the idea HQ, and Sotheby’s without whom it would of Colour in Motion: Kaleidoscope. just not have been possible. We are honoured to have Roksanda A warm thank you to them all. Enjoy Ilincic as Honorary Chair this year and would a very good evening. like to thank her most warmly for hosting our Artists’ Party on 3 March, to thank all Christopher Jonas the artists who have so generously donated Chairman, Contemporary Art Society work to the auction. London based designer Roksanda Ilincic explores colour in clothing informed and influenced by many of the great colour field painters. We are very pleased to offer a lot in the auction donated by her and we are immensely grateful to Roksanda and to Rafaela Feio. I am indebted to my new colleagues on the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary 10 DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION s I write this we are completing The vast majority of museums in this the purchase of an important country, in common with museums across group of 33 works that will enter the world, have built their collections with the permanent collections of 16 a combination of public funds and private Amuseums in the UK this month after a year philanthropy. It is the kind of enlightened long research process. Works by Andrea partnership that creates great institutions Büttner, Gustav Metzger, Mike Nelson, Anthea as well as great collections, and the roll- Hamilton, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Ben call of extraordinary individuals whose Rivers to name just a few, will enter public generosity has made such a difference ownership and be accessible to museum is truly glittering in every sense. audiences now and far in to the future. We This year the committee that has brought are immensely proud of these achievements life to our colourful theme has been steered and believe passionately in the power of by Linda Keyte and Veronique Parke and we art to give pleasure and to enrich our lives are enormously grateful to them for being at intellectually, emotionally and socially. once expansive in their thinking and careful None of these achievements would in their attention to detail. We would like have been possible without the support to thank all the members of the wonderful of people like you, who share our passion committee that Linda and Veronique and believe in the power of art to transform gathered around them for their tireless work lives. The funds that the supporters of the on our behalf. We offer heartfelt thanks to all Contemporary Art Society contribute have the artists who have so generously donated an effect that is felt not just in London, work, and most particularly to our nine but across the entire country. Every year Artist Ambassadors whose advocacy on literally millions of people: children, students, our behalf tonight and into the coming year families, pensioners and art lovers of all is invaluable: thank you Alice Channer, Roger stripes walk in to their local museums from Hiorns, Conrad Shawcross, Phoebe Unwin, Orkney to Penzance, and are affected Mark Wallinger, Richard Wentworth, by works of art that have been gifted by Jane & Louise Wilson and Rose Wylie. the Contemporary Art Society. The effect I would like to offer our warmest thanks of our work over the last hundred years to you for your support of our Gala this year.