Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of Artnet and formerly of Artspace, pronounces on “the ten best artworks at Art Basel 2017.”
Included are Francis Bacon’s painting “Study from the Human Body – Figure in Movement” (1982), offered by the Marlborough Gallery, New York, for $25 million and Christopher Wool’s sculpture”Untitled” (2014), offered by Luhring Augustine, New York, for $2.2 million.
Mr. Goldstein observes that Bacon’s “Study from the Human Body – Figure in Movement,” obtained by the gallery directly from Francis Bacon just before he passed away, features
“marquee elements of a major Bacon—the spooky transparent box (evoked memorably in the new “Twin Peaks”), vigorous coloration, and mutant figure in apparent agony—the painting advances Bacon’s interest in the body in movement, a subject he often painted from photos in sporting magazines.”
Of Christopher Wool’s “Untitled,” Mr. Goldstein recounts the inspiration that led the artist towards “a new way to translate his painterly aesthetics into sculpture”:
“some years back, the artist Christopher Wool was walking the wide streets of Marfa, Texas, when he came across an unusual tumbleweed that had formed in the desert out of barbed wire. Looping and gnarly, it reminded him of his abstract paintings …”
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“The Best 10 Artworks at Art Basel 2017” | Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief, Artnet, 14 June 2017
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