Art Market: Highlights From Fall Auctions 2025 @ Phillips New York

 

(Drivebycuriosity) -  It`s November again and the world`s largest auction houses have their annual huge fall auctions in Manhattan. This post is about the galleries @ Phillips, the number 3 of the global auction houses (phillips ). The company has the reputation to be more focused on contemporary works than her bigger competitors and to show more cutting edge art by up-and-coming artists. But they also had some big names. I display here some of my favorites from the exhibition - as usual a very subjective selection.

  This time the most interesting exhibits were fossils. On the top of this post you can see “Cera” - The Most Complete Juvenile Triceratops Skeleton Ever Unearthed, circa 66 Million years old - Cera was discovered in 2016 in the fossil-rich badlands of Perkins County, South Dakota.

Cera is followed by "King Gidhora" - A very fine subadult Pteranodon -mImmature male from the Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Fm. Western Kansas
Upper Cretaceous circa 87 Million Years Ago 60 1/2 x 132 7/8 x 1 in. (153.7 x 337.5 x 2.5 cm).

 

Above follow the "Guardian of the Fossil Lake" - Exceptionally Large Amia Fossil - Eocene, 50 Million Years Ago - Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA
96 x 46 in. (243.8 x 116,8 cm) & "The Ouroboros-Steneosaurus bollensis" - A world-class specimen preserved without restoration Lower Jurassic (Toarcian, "Lias &") circa 180 Million Years Ago - Urweltsteinbruch Holzmaden Quarry, Baden-Württemberg, Germany length of fossil 66 7/8 in. (170 cm) slab 70 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (180 x 180 x 7 cm).

 

                         Animal Abuse 

 

The image above this paragraph tells a heartbreaking story of animal abuse: Walton Ford`s "Guilty Elephant". Apparently the innocent animal gets electrocuted as victim of a cruel physical experiment.  

Ford specializes in animals, often in historic settings. I admired his majestic Berber Lions at Gallery Kasmin (my report ) and Milanese heiress Luisa Casati with her fancy leopards at Gagosian ( driveby).

 

Above follow 2 images by German artist Sigmar Polke: "Untitled (Crime Story-Happy End)" plus "Untitled".

 

                            Islamophobic? 

  

Above this paragaph you can see: Jll Mulready`s "Schindler House"; Reggis Burrows Hodges`"Swimming in Compton: Look Ma'"
 & Ben Aston`s "Chasing Waterfalls". 

 

Last but not least Banksy. Will the woke and the libtards call this work Islamophobic? 

Stay tuned