Christie's continues to expand its online-only auction calendar with new sale offerings dedicated to 20th century art. New May and June sales, including several new curated themed sales, will feature Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary art, as well as XNUMXth-century photography and design.
In the post-war and contemporary art category there are Vice and Virtue, two sales with a dynamic theme that minutely touch our collective reality during these times of crisis. In the Impressionist and Modern Art category, a dedicated sale of Picasso Ceramics, a perennial favorite of collectors worldwide, will precede two new sales themed La Vie en Rose and Form and Fantasy that explore the exuberance of landscape and portraiture and trace the course of the avant-garde through abstraction, respectively.
An extensive roster of dedicated Photography sales will examine the history of the medium, with From Pictorialism in Modernism: 80 Years of Photography in early May followed by the dedicated sale Ansel Adams and the American West, Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography. Additional sales of various owners of 20th Century Design (Making Space: Design Online), postwar and contemporary art and photography are planned throughout the month, offering exceptional works at various price points, to appeal to a diverse range of collectors.
Opening on Thursday, April 30 for bidding, Christie's first online sale presents a major fundraising opportunity: Carrie Mae Weems' Change Requests 2020 Vision, 2020 ($20.000-30.000). Proceeds from this sale will support the Center for Refugee Services and their House of Trees art collective, both located in San Antonio Texas. Carrie Mae Weems' striking felt banner speaks directly to our sociopolitical moment, inspiring hope for positive change in a time of uncertainty. The handmade work was created in collaboration with female refugee fabricators based in Texas as part of the art collective's 2017 Word on the Street project. Weems' bold and visionary statement originally referenced the potential for intersectional change in America's 2020 presidential election year.
