Auction house Christie’s has announced a bold new collaboration with de Pury, the new online-led auction business founded by Simon and Michaela de Pury. Christie’s and de Pury have joined forces to present an auction featuring items from the renowned Lambert Art Collection. The sale will take place in London on October 14 and will also be delivered via “a new online experience which will feature rich content, stunning photography, and artist videos.”
“A Visual Odyssey: Selections from LAC (Lambert Art Collection)” includes 306 objects spanning eight categories and three centuries. Highlights include works of art by Christopher Wool, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Prince, Rudolf Stingel, and Cindy Sherman as well as a number of important items of furniture including a spectacular Louis XV ormolu mounted ebony bureau plat, Jean Dunand’s 1922 “Panther & Snake” two-panel screen, and a Donald Judd desk and chair set.
The sale can be previewed from the 3-14 October at Ely House in Dover Street, London as a curated exhibition presented by acclaimed designer Jacques Grange. The auction will also be presented and streamed live simultaneously on both Christie’s and de Pury websites, establishing what Christie’s describe as “a radical new auction format” that will create “an exciting and dynamic sale, set to be a highlight of Frieze week.”
Francis Outred, Christie’s Head of PostWar and Contemporary Art, Europe: “The Lambert Art Collection is the product of a restless, global, cultural mind and heart whose curiosity has been borne across the 20th Century and is now brought into the 21st century with an exciting and innovative online presentation. The origins of this collection lie with the Lambert family in Belgium, whose matriarch helped to rebuild the banking dynasty after the war.”
Simon de Pury: It is most unusual to find in the same collection a French 18th-century bureau plat and cartonnier, outstanding 20thcentury decorative arts ranging from a gorgeous Jean Dunand screen to an exquisite Donald Judd desk, a collection of posters that students were plastering on the walls of Paris during the May revolts in 1968, a wonderful group of artworks by Richard Prince, Rudolf Stingel, Ugo Rondinone and Cindy Sherman, a Topolino car from the 1950s, and fashion by Capucci.”
