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There’s so much to say about the upcoming Phillips de Pury Urban Art auction, and now I finally got a moment (and some pictures) to appropriately blog it up. The Urban Art auction has three areas that will be of specific interest to toy fans: Japanese and western kaiju, art toys and urban/street art. I wrote up the kaiju pieces here and the plush, busts, vinyl, customs and remixed art toys here. Urban and street art have plenty of crossover room for toy collectors. In fact, many street artists have done their thing on platform toys like Dunny and Qee. A little warning though–the prices for original fine art pieces are strictly suited to collectors and those for whom a weak American dollar is not a problem. The Street Art lots begin with lot 200 here. The auction takes place in London on September 6th and New York on October 25th. The complete online catalog is now available at phillipsdepury.com.
INVADER (lot 200) Mario Divided, 2005. Assemblage of Rubik’s cubes. Each 17 1/4 x 17 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches. Each object is signed, dated and stamped. (above left)
KORALIE (lot 209) Mary in Darkland, 2007. Pen, acrylic, flocked fabric and paper collage on wood. 39 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches. Signed and dated. (above right)
DAVID CHOE (lot 221) Hell Houndz, 2007. Screenprint on paper. 25 x 19 inches. Signed, titled, numbered and stamped lower edge. (above left)
FAILE (lot 227) Forbidden Love, 2005. Spraypaint on found window frame. 29 x 29 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches. Signed and dated on verso. (above right)
BANKSY (lot 239) Three Works: Wrong War, 2004-2005. (i) Acrylic and screenprint on paper; (ii) acrylic and screenprint on placard; (iii) screenprint on paper. (i) 23 1/8 x 16 3/8 inches; (ii) 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches; (iii) 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. (i) This work is from an edition of 50; (ii) signed lower edge. This work is from an edition of 96; (iii) this work is from an edition of 50. (above left)
BUFF MONSTER (lot 244) Hard Pink, 2007
Acrylic and spraypaint on flattened metal cans mounted on wood. 17 5/8 x 12 inches. Signed and dated on verso. (above right)
Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
Wed, Aug 20, 2008
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