Erdem Moralioglu Selects Artworks to Sell at Sotheby’s London Inline

March 11, 2016

Alex Katz, b. 1927, Buttercup 1
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Alex Katz, Buttercup 1, 2002
“It's so beautiful—plus, it looks like something that might have been scribbled in a diary.”
Bernd and Hilla Becherm 1931 - 2007 and b.1934, Forderturme (Winding Towers) gelatin silver print
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Fördertürme (Winding Towers), 1966-1973
“People might be surprised to see that this appeals to me. It’s the obsessiveness of the cataloging of industrial towers by this husband-and-wife duo that I like. It’s as if you are always looking at the same object; it’s just the foreground or the horizon that changes.”

George Condo, b. 1957, Untitled
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George Condo, Untitled, 2000
“I’m of the Muppet generation—the Fraggle Rock, human/animal quality of this figurative work appealed to me. It’s as playful as it is disturbing.”
Josef Albers, 1888 - 1976m Study for Hommage to the Square: Framed Sky ‘C’
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Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: “Framed Sky” C, 1970
“The color is so saturated, it’s like a Pantone square. I’ve always been attracted to color, and Josef Albers is one of the great colorists. I was also fascinated that he’d taught at the Bauhaus, then left Germany, and then started teaching Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg at Black Mountain College in North Carolina . . . This is an incredible chance to own something by him.”
Louise Bourgeois. 1911 - 2010, Untitled
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Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2000
“I first saw her work at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art. I thought it was mind-blowing; she creates a world through the humanness of her work. This is mysterious and slightly menacing.”

Lucien Freud, 1922-2011, Girl With Her Eyes Closed
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Lucian Freud, Girl With Her Eyes Closed, c. 1944
“It’s not just the opportunity to have a work by one of the most eminent artists of the 20th century . . . I was fascinated by the fact that Freud must have painted this when he was about 22 and not long out of Goldsmiths; it’s a very early piece.”
Matthew Barneym b. 1967m Cremaster 3: Chrysler Imperial signed and dated 01 on the reverse c-print, in artist’s frame
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Matthew Barney, Cremaster 3: Chrysler Imperial, 2001
“A car in the foyer of the Chrysler Building: It feels odd and out of place, but this image, like a movie still, also has a quiet beauty.”
Thomas Ruff, b. 1958, Substrat 29 III
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Thomas Ruff, Substrat 29 III, 2006
“I love his work—there is an otherworldliness to it. This feels like a weird hallucination. It’s as if you’re on a backstreet in Tokyo somewhere, screwing up your eyes. It’s transportive.”