ART NEWS
Mark Rothko, Tamara de Lempicka, Mickalene Thomas to Star in Phillips London Evening Sale
Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q, a 1964 riff on the Mona Lisa from an edition of 35 divided between the artist and his close friends, is estimated at £200,000–£300,000 ($277,000–$415,000). Other versions of it reside in the collections of institutions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, and the Israel Museum of Art in Jerusalem.
Among the emerging artists in the sale is Joy Labinjo, whose untitled double-portrait of a woman and child from 2018 is estimated at £20,000–£30,000 ($27,000–$42,000). Labinjo’s market has ascended since the sale of her family scene Visiting Great Grandma (2018), which was auctioned for $189,000 this past December at Phillips; it had been estimated at $10,000. Meanwhile, Mickalene Thomas’s Clarivel Right (2018), featuring a recurring female figure in her work, is estimated at £220,000–£350,000 ($305,000–$457,000).
