Dennis Hopper artwork expected to fetch $13m at auction
September 22nd, 2010 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANILondon, Sept 22 (ANI): Late actor Dennis Hopper’s collection of works of art is expected to sell for 13 million dollars at Christie’s auction house in New York.
The collection of more than 200 works includes pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, reports the BBC.
Christie’s Cathy Elkies described the collection as “personal, meaningful and ultimately, significant to the market.”
Thirty-five pieces will go under the hammer in November and another auction will take place in January.
Basquiat’s Untitled is expected to be the top seller with an estimated price tag of up to 7m dollars.
A 1971 portrait of Hopper, by Warhol, is expected to fetch up to 1.2m dollars.
Works by Robert Rauschenberg, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Keith Haring, Marcel Duchamp and Julian Schnabel, will also be sold off.
Hopper, who starred in and directed the 1969 movie ‘Easy Rider’, died in May of cancer at the age of 74.
“Dennis Hopper was the consummate creator,” said Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s.
“His pensive, personal collection of art reflected his strong, deep bonds with the artists whose work he collected,” he added. (ANI)
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