‘Art for Maggie’s’ goes online
PHILANTHROPY AUCTION: 48 LEADING ARTISTS DONATE MASTERPIECES FOR CHARITY
Bid to raise funds to provide support for people suffering from cancer.
Christie’s has announced that 48 leading international artists, designers and architects have donated a selection of artworks, which will be offered online from 15 to 23 July.
The cross-category auction will raise funds for the British charity Maggie’s, which provides free practical and emotional support to people with cancer as well as their family and friends in centres across the UK.
“Art for Maggie’s, Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care” will auction off pieces that have been donated to the charity by several artists and designers.
Among them are Frank Auerbach, David Bailey, Christopher le Brun, Sonia Boyce, Lucian Freud Estate, Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Michael Craig-Martin, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Mario Testino, Edmund de Waal and Mark Wallinger.
Also participating in “Art for Maggie’s, Everyone’s Home of Cancer Care” are architects and designers Jamie Fobert, Lord Norman Foster, the late Dame Zaha
Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick and Daniel Libeskind.
On offer during the online sale is a 1986 work on paper by English painter Bridget
Rile, entitled Untitled [towards Fleeting Moment], which is expected to sell for between £25 000 and £35 000 (R530 000 and R740 000). Also hitting the auction block are Frank Auerbach’s Study for Chimney in Mornington Crescent (1987) and Luc Tuyman’s recent work on paper
Cloud, which are respectively estimated to fetch up to £18 000 and £50 000.
Additionally, collectors will have the opportunity to purchase an iconic portrait of John Lennon and Paul McCartney taken in 1965 by English fashion photographer David Bailey and a photograph of Dustin Hoffman from Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Crying Men series.
“Christie’s is honoured to be partnering with Maggie’s, an organisation that supports those suffering with cancer. The charity has long believed in the potential of art, architecture and design to create a refuge for patients and their families,” said Katharine Arnold, co-head of Post-War and Contemporary Art Europe.
Many of the artists contributing to “Art for Maggie’s” have long donated pieces to Maggie’s centres across the UK, including Antony Gormley who has sculptures outside the Dundee and Cardiff centres.
“Art for Maggie’s” is one of the multiple charitable sales organised by Christie’s amidst the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen a surge in philanthropy according to The New York Times.
In April, Christie’s collaborated with the Warhol Foundation for the online-only sale “Andy Warhol: Better Days”, which raised about $272 125. – Relaxnews