Now open online, Dream Big is a selling exhibition of monumental sculpture offered by Christie’s Private Sales this summer.
Featuring works by modern and contemporary artists including Marc Quinn, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Manolo Valdés, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jacques Lipchitz, and with prices from £300,000 – 13,000,000, the exhibition runs until 29 September.
Three large scale sculptures by Marc Quinn, Singularity (Sabal), 2024, Light into Life (Photosynthetic Form), 2023 and Light into Life (Evolution of Forms), 2024, currently presented in the exhibition Marc Quinn: Light into Life at Kew Gardens, London, are included in the sale.
Also Louise Bourgeois’s Eye Benches III (1996-1997), for which the artist was inspired by people watching and interacting with strangers.
Unique works include Benediction II by Jacques Lipchitz, conceived and cast between 1943-1945, and Reina Mariana by Manolo Valdés from 2005, part of one of the artist’s most recognised bodies of work based on Spanish artist Diego Velázquez’s Queen Mariana. A large-scale installation featuring thirteen Reina Marianas by Valdés, titled Las Meninas a San Marco, is currently on view in St Mark’s Square in Venice.
Another important work included in the exhibition is a group of five monumental cast iron walking figures by Magdalena Abakanowicz from 2005.
For further information: christies.com
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Image: Marc Quinn, Light into Life (Photosynthetic Form), executed in 2023. Polished stainless steel 240h x 292w x 133d cm (approximate) (94 1/2 x 115 x 52 3/8 in) Photo courtesy of Christie’s