Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery opened its doors in 2002, bringing a pioneering spirit and far reaching vision to Chelsea’s vibrant gallery district. Unique among his peers, Bryce Wolkowitz developed a program to compete with established galleries by investigating the intersection of art and technology in a manner where tradition and innovation find themselves as collaborators in a nascent dialogue on the importance of art in contemporary society.
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With a “multicamera global livestream” in place of its usual New York sale, the auction house tried breathing life back into a pandemic-numbed market.
LONDON — “This is what we like: the ping-pong between New York and Hong Kong. We see them on the split screens in perfect clarity,” the auctioneer Oliver Barker said late Monday, sounding like a prime-time TV game show host. He was taking seven-figure bids at a Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art, presented as a “multicamera global livestream.”
The marathon 74-lot auction at Sotheby’s, which replaced the postponed May evening sales in New York, used the latest technology to try breathing life back into the pandemic-numbed top end of the international art market.
The hybrid format featured the suavely suited Mr. Barker taking bids on a rostrum in an empty room in London, facing a bank of screens showing telephone-wielding colleagues in an adjoining room, as well as in New York and Hong Kong.
Sotheby’s recently announced that they will be offering The Clyman Fang Head – one of the most important works of African Art ever to appear at auction – in their Contemporary Art Evening Auction to be held in New York the week of June 29th.
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This November, one of just six surviving paintings from Francis Bacon’s famed Tangier series will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction. Entitled Pope, the present work was executed in Morocco circa 1958, during a particularly emotional and prolific period of the artist’s life. The offering of Pope is momentous: prior to this, only two of the six surviving Tangier paintings have ever appeared at auction – the most recent, another Pope, was sold at Sotheby’s in 2008 for $7.3 million (estimate $3.2 – 4.7 million).
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