View at www.christies.com Africa has been in my life since I handled my first diamond and marvelled at its mysterious beauty. The continent of Africa continues to suffer from poverty, illness and a lack of education for the children born on its vast land. I established FACET to help address some of these problems by giving back to the countries from where many of our magnificent diamonds originate, therefore offering opportunities to the youth of Africa. We are setting up a series of Graff Leadership Centres, the first of which is in Leribe, Lesotho, where we will run programs for youths and orphans in literacy and pre-employment skills. The centre will also serve as a hostel for 50 girls on a residential leadership program for community development. This catalogue features artwork generously donated by some of the most important contemporary artists of our time, including several from South Africa. With many thanks to Christie’s for their support in holding this fundraising auction. Laurence Graff Committee members Peter Brant, Barry Townsley CBE, Arpad Busson, Uma Thurman, Hugh Grant, Naomi Campbell, Lucia Van der Post, Dasha Zhukova Anselm Reyle Tracey Emin George Condo Banksy Do Ho Suh Raqib Shaw Ed Ruscha Richard Pettibone Jeff Koons Marc Newson Stephane Graff Toby Ziegler Marc Quinn Damien Hirst William Kentridge Deborah Bell Lionel Smit Dylan Lewis Tom Friedman Christoph Schellberg Erwin Wurm Claude Lalanne Dennis Hopper David LaChapelle Gerald Laing 1 Khotsa Nala earrings Double hoop earrings White gold, round diamond pave 17.16 Carats Estimate £60,000–£80,000 Donated by Laurence Graff Khotsa Nala Earrings ‘Khotsa Nala’ means ‘Peace’ and ‘Prosperity’, from the Lesotho National Motto ‘Khotsa Pula Nala’ (Peace Rain Prosperity) 2 Untitled PVC Foil on canvas in Plexiglas box, 2008 1 3 28 × 23 /2 × 4 /4 in (71 × 60 × 12 cm) Estimate: £15,000–£20,000 Courtesy of Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels / Paris Anselm Reyle Born: Tübingen, Germany Lives and works: Berlin, Germany Recent solo exhibitions ‘Anselm Reyle’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2009 ‘White Earth’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2008 ‘The 7th Dream’, Gavin Brown‘s enterprise, New York, USA, 2007 ‘The 5th Dream’, The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007 ‘The Construction of Harmony’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2007 Recent group exhibitions ‘Säen und Jäten – Volkskultur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst’, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Germany, 2009 ‘Magritte et la Lumière’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 ‘With You I Want to Live: An Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Photographs from the Collections of Gordon Locksley & George T. Shea and Francie Bishop Good & David Horvit’, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 2009 ‘Diesseits der Alpen: Hunger, Jenseits der Alpen: Durst’ Hadlichstrasse 44, Berlin, Germany, 2009 ‘Constructivisme’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 3 Suffer Love lX Monoprint on paper, 2009 1 5 8 /8 × 11 /8 in (21 × 29.6 cm) Estimate: £3,000–£4,000 Courtesy of the artist and White Cube Tracey Emin Born: London, UK Lives and works: London, UK Recent Solo Exhibitions ‘Tracey Emin: Those Who Suffer Love’, White Cube, London, 2009 ‘Tracey Emin 20 Years’, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, 2009 ‘Tracey Emin 20 Years’, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain, 2008 ‘Tracey Emin: 20 Years’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008 ‘Tracey Emin: You Left Me Breathing’, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA, 2007 Recent Group Exhibitions ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’, Goss-Michael Foundation Collection, Dallas, USA, 2009 ‘Once Upon a Time…Artists and Storytelling’, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, UK, 2009 ‘Talk Dirty to Me’, Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY, USA, 2009 ‘Swingtime: Freestyle’, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Aarhus, Denmark, 2009 ‘Tracey Emin, Guy Limone, DeAnna Maganias, Jorge Pardo, Angelo Plessas’, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2009 ‘Being British’, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK, 2009 4 Young Girl with Makeup Oil on canvas, 2007 32 × 28 in (81.28 × 71.12 cm) Estimate: £30,000–£40,000 Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and Simon Lee Gallery, London George Condo Born: Concord, New Hampshire, USA Lives and works: New York, USA Recent solo exhibitions ‘George Condo: The Lost Civilization’, Musee Maillol, Paris, France, 2009 ‘George Condo’, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 ‘George Condo: Drawings,’ Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany, 2008 ‘George Condo’, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia, 2008 ‘Christ: The Subjective Nature of Objective Representation’, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA, 2008 Recent group exhibitions 'The living and the dead’, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA, 2009 ‘Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection’, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA, 2008 ‘Hansel and Gretel: Never Eat A House’, The Metropolitan Opera, New York and Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA, 2008 ‘It’s Not Over Yet’, Invisible-Exports, New York, USA, 2008 ‘God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion’, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano – Codroipo, Italy, 2008 5 Heavy Weaponry Acrylic and spray enamel on canvas, 2003 36 × 46 in (91.4 cm × 121.9 cm) Signed on the reverse, stamped with the artist’s tag insignia on right-hand turnover edge This lot is authenticated by a certificate of authenticity from Pest Control Office Estimate: £30,000–£40,000 Donated by Lazarides Gallery, London Banksy Born: Bristol, UK Lives and works: UK and internationally Recent solo exhibitions ‘Banksy vs Bristol Museum’, Bristol Museum, Bristol, UK, 2009 ‘Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill’, New York, USA, 2008 ‘Barely Legal’, Downtown Warehouse, LA, USA, 2006 ‘Turf War’, Dalston, London, UK, 2003 ‘Existencilism’, 33 1/3 Gallery, LA, USA, 2002 Alternate view 6 Karma Paint on paper, 2007 3 41 × 54 /4 in (104 × 151.7 cm) Estimate: £20,000–£30,000 Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York Do Ho Suh Born: Seoul, Korea Lives and works: New York, USA Recent solo exhibitions Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA, 2007 Sun Gallery, Sun Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 2006 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA, 2005 Hermes, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, 2005 Sackler Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA, 2005 Recent group exhibitions ‘KAFA Awards Exhibition’, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2009 ‘Papertrail v. 5: Intimate Gestures’, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, USA, 2009 ‘The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2009 ‘Your Bright Future, Los Angeles County Museum of Art’, Los Angeles, USA, (travelling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009) ‘Bizarre Perfection’, curated by Susan Landau, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 2008 Comparative Figure (Detail) Do Ho Suh, Karma, 2007 Image: Courtesy of the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York 7 The Mild-Eyed Melancholy of the Lotus Eater Mixed media on paper, 2009 1 50 × 36 /2 in (127 x 92.7 cm) Estimate: £80,000–£120,000 Courtesy of the artist Raqib Shaw Born: Calcutta, India Lives and works: London, England Recent solo exhibitions ‘Absence of God’, Karlsplatz Project Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria, 2009 ‘Absence of God’, White Cube Hoxton, London, UK, 2009 ‘Raqib Shaw’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2008 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA, 2006 ‘Art Now: Raqib Shaw’, Tate Britian, London, UK, 2006 Recent group exhibitions ‘The Power of Ornament’, Belvedere (Orangery, Lower Belvedere), Vienna, Austria, 2009 ‘Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannous Collection’, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece 2007 ‘6th Gwangju Biennale’, Gwangju, South Korea, 2006 ‘Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2006 ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, 2006 8 Uh Oh Acrylic on grass-cloth paper, 2008 3 1 7 /4 × 10 /4 in (19.7 × 26.4 cm) Estimate: £20,000–£30,000 Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery Ed Ruscha Born: Omaha, USA Lives and works: Los Angeles, USA Recent solo exhibitions ‘Ed Ruscha: 50 Years of Painting’, Hayward Gallery Pavilion, London, UK, 2009 ‘Paintings’, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK, 2008 ‘Busted Glass’, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK, 2007 ‘Drawings’, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA, 2006 ‘Then & Now’, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA, 2005 Recent Group Exhibitions ‘Stages’, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France, 2009 ‘Summer Exhibition 2009’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 2009 ‘Magritte and Light’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2009 ‘Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA, 2009 ‘Artist Rooms: The d’Offay Donation’, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2009 9 Andy Warhol, ‘Soup Can, Turkey Noodle’, 1962 Silkscreen & oil on canvas, 1990–2009 1 3 5 /4 × 3 /4 in (13.3 x 9.5 cm) Estimate: £10,000–£15,000 Courtesy of Richard Pettibone and the Leo Castelli Gallery Richard Pettibone Born: Los Angeles, USA Lives and works: New York, USA Recent solo exhibitions ‘Richard Pettibone: Paintings of Sculptures’, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA, 2008 ‘Miniaturizing Modernism’, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA, 2007 ‘Richard Pettibone - A Retrospective’, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA, 2006 ‘Richard Pettibone. Sixty-four Campbell’s Soup Cans’, Leo Castelli