Allen Jones
Apparition, from the Para Adultos series
About the SessionSpanning 4 centuries of global art history, The International Sale, presents 127 exceptional lots by artists from 27 countries across five continents. The auction highlights masterworks ranging from 17th century European paintings to post-2000 editions by contemporary artist's such as Mr Brainwash (lot 51), Jim Dine (lots 83-86), Isaac Julien (lot 108), Jeff Koons (45), and Lucas Samaras (lot 107 and 110). The sale is anchored by important pieces from Georg Baselitz, Erik Laubscher, Shirin Neshat, and a newly repatriated 1935 portrait by Irma Stern.
The auction's diversity is driven by rare museum-quality highlights, led by Irma Stern's Two Women (lot 31), which returns to South Africa after decades in a Berlin private collection. It is joined by Erik Laubscher's rare recto-verso painting Young Family / Construction (lot 48), an Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat photographic portrait linked to her award-winning Turbulent installation (lot 66), and a uniquely hand-coloured linocut by German master Georg Baselitz titled Das Pferd, Im Wald und auf der Heide Series (The Horse, in the Forest and on the Heath Series) (lot 72).
LOT 91
Allen Jones
Apparition, from the Para Adultos series
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About this Item
signed, dated 85, numbered 3/75 in pencil and embossed with the Angeles Press chopmark
Notes
Published by Waddington Graphics, London.
Allen Jones, born in Southampton in 1937, is a British artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture and printmaking, with the female figure recurring throughout his work. He studied at Hornsey College of Art in London from 1955 to 1959, he later continued his studies at the Royal College of Art. It was during this period that he became part of a generation of young British artists that included David Hockney, Peter Phillips and R.B. Kitaj, who would become closely associated with the emergence of British Pop Art.
Jones first gained attention in the 1960s for works that combined popular imagery with an overtly erotic sensibility. The female figure remained central to his practice, while his approach evolved to encompass more stylised and theatrical compositions, drawing on imagery associated with fashion, dance and cabaret.
Over the course of his career, Jones has exhibited extensively in Britain and internationally. His solo exhibitions include presentations at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany; Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle/Saale; Kunsthaus Hannover; and Skulpturen-Garten der Stadt Wien, Vienna. He was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale in 1963 and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1986. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections internationally.
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