Flora Yukhnovich,\u00a0Pretty Little Thing<\/em>, 2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Flora](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flora-e1624896803114.jpg?w=510\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $1.2 million<\/strong><\/p>\nKnown for her paintings drawing on Rococo styles pioneered in the 18th century by artists like Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau, Flora Yukhnovich recently got major gallery representation in 2019 at Victoria Miro, which has locations in London and Venice. At the time, she hadn\u2019t even turned 30. Now, the London-based artist\u2019s work has caught the attention of international buyers, including Scottish property developer David Roberts. At Phillips, her canvas\u00a0Pretty Little Thing<\/em>\u00a0(2019) sold for $1.2 million, 20 times its estimate of $60,000, setting a new record and surpassing her previous record of $29,900, paid for an untitled 2018 work on paper at Bonhams in April 2021.\u00a0Pretty Little Thing<\/em>\u00a0is the third work by the artist ever to be auctioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2<\/span><\/p>\nEmily Mae Smith,\u00a0Waiting Room<\/em>, 2015<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Emily](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Emily-e1624898050595.png?w=453\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $756,000<\/strong><\/p>\nEmily Mae Smith\u2019s surreal paintings featuring broom-like characters have captivated the art market in recent years.\u00a0Waiting Room<\/em>\u00a0(2015), which depicts Smith\u2019s protagonist with its eyes replaced by ticking clocks, was once included \u201cUnrealism<\/a>,\u201d a show curated in 2015 by dealers Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian for Art Basel Miami. Just this month in Hong Kong, Phillips set the artist\u2019s record with\u00a0Broom Life\u00a0<\/em>(2014), which sold for HKD 12.4 million ($1.6 million), besting the work\u2019s high estimate 20 times over. This work didn\u2019t sell for quite as much, though it also performed well, going for a total of $756,000, 19 times its low estimate of $40,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n3<\/span><\/p>\nCinga Samson,\u00a0Two Piece 1<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"3.](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-25-at-10.34.05-AM.png?w=472\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $378,000<\/strong><\/p>\nOver the past few years, there\u2019s been a wave of interest in young figurative painters challenging Western depictions of Black subjects. Among them is the South African star Cinga Samson, whose 2018 painting of a young Black with a vacant stare man made a splash at Phillips.\u00a0Two Piece<\/a> 1<\/em>\u00a0was sold by Oslo-based collector and translation service owner Arne Austrheim, who bought it in 2018 from Cape Town\u2019s blank projects gallery. At the time, Samson\u2019s works were selling privately at prices between $10,000 and $15,000. These days, that small sum looks like a big discount. At Phillips, after bids flooded in from New York, Hong Kong, and London,\u00a0Two Piece 1<\/em>\u00a0sold to an online bidder for a hammer price of $300,000 ($378,000 with premium), 12 times the work\u2019s low estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n4<\/span><\/p>\nPaul Wonner,\u00a0Flowers, Chairs, a Dog and Two Birds<\/em>, 1986<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Paul](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Paul-e1624899961175.png?w=600\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $201,600<\/strong><\/p>\nPaul Wonner\u2019s\u00a0Flowers, Chairs, a Dog and Two Birds<\/em>\u00a0(1986) came to Phillips from the collection of California arts patron Robin Quist Gates<\/a>, who bought it in 1986 and held on to it until her death in 2021. Wonner, who died in 2008, painted intricate still lifes, and has largely remained a lesser-known figure associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, which also included Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park. Gate\u2019s heirs sold it at Phillips for $201,600\u201413 times the work\u2019s low estimate of $15,000\u2014making it the sixth-highest selling work by Wonner to surface at auction. Still, it is short of Wonner\u2019s current record price of $324,000, paid for his 1959 canvas\u00a0Still life with cup<\/em>\u00a0back in 2007 during a contemporary art day sale at Sotheby\u2019s in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n5<\/span><\/p>\nGodwin Champs Namuyimba,\u00a0Destiny<\/em>, 2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"5.](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Godwin-e1624900849582.png?w=800\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $107,100<\/strong><\/p>\nUgandan painter Godwin Champs Namuyimba was represented at Phillips by his painting\u00a0Destiny<\/em>\u00a0(2019), which depicts a Black astronaut in repose, his head resting on a globe. John Auerbach, a former Sotheby\u2019s executive and an art collector, originally purchased work directly from the artist at a time when his paintings were selling for prices between $1,000 and $2,000. It sold for $107,100, 13 times the estimate of $8,000, just days before the artist is due to have a solo show at New York\u2019s East Projects<\/a> gallery. In the past year, a group of works by the young artist have recently surfaced at auction, going for prices well past their low estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n6<\/span><\/p>\nAngel Otero,\u00a0Acis and Galatea<\/em>, 2013<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Angel](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Angel-Otero-e1624901665909.png?w=468\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $277,200<\/strong><\/p>\nAt Phillips\u2019s day sale, Angel Otero\u2019s\u00a0Acis and Galatea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2013), made in homage to a painting by Nicolas Poussin of the same name, sold for $277,200, 11 times its estimate of $25,000. The result marks a new record for the artist, who is a staple in contemporary art auctions. It surpassed Otero\u2019s previous benchmark of $162,4oo, paid for\u00a0Drifter\u2019s Escape<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2015) at Phillips recent Hong Kong sale staged in collaboration with Chinese auction house Poly on June 7. The seller purchased the thickly painted canvas at a Christie\u2019s New York sale in March 2013, where it was auctioned to benefit the Brooklyn Museum for $52,500. In 2013, the work was given a $20,000 low estimate; it is now worth nearly 14 times that amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n7<\/span><\/p>\nAlex Gardner,\u00a0Chair #2<\/em>, 2016<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alex-e1624902883654.png?w=438\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $214,200<\/strong><\/p>\nLos Angeles\u2013based artist Alex Gardner, who is part of the L.A. artist-run collective New Image Art , is known for his dreamy compositions of featureless Black subjects. (For a 2020 show at the Hole gallery in New York, he introduced blue characters to his oeuvre, telling\u00a0Metal<\/em>magazine<\/a> that the choice is meant to reinforce the \u201cintended universality of the figures.\u201d) At Phillips, Gardner\u2019s\u00a0Chair #2\u00a0<\/em>(2016), depicting one figure sitting atop another kneeling one, sold for $214,200, 10 times the $20,000 low estimate. The result set a record for the artist, outdoing the $191,600 paid for\u00a0Triangle #2<\/em>\u00a0(2016) at Phillips during a New York contemporary art sale just two months ago, in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n8<\/span><\/p>\nJad\u00e9 Fadojutimi,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Jad\u00e9](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jade.jpeg?w=439\")
<\/p>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for $310,000<\/strong><\/p>\nAt just 27 years old, Jad\u00e9 Fadojutimi<\/a> is currently the youngest artist in the collection of the Tate. It\u2019s been a big year for the British artist, with her work on view in the Liverpool Biennial and solo shows at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in the pipeline. Alongside all this, her market has taken off, with a new record of $725,000 minted at Phillips in Hong Kong earlier this year. At Phillips in New York, her chaotically composed painting\u00a0Untitled\u00a0<\/em>(2018) outpaced expectations, selling for $390,600, 6 times the low estimate of $60,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n9<\/span><\/p>\nAllison Zuckerman,\u00a0The First Royal Portrait<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Allison](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/royal-portrait.jpeg?w=438\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Phillips<\/span><\/div>\n\nSold for $252,000<\/strong><\/p>\nIn 2018, when she was just 27 years old, Allison Zuckerman emerged during Art Basel Miami Beach as one of the fair\u2019s ascending talents. Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell gave her solo show at their museum that year\u2014and effectively put her on the map. Sourcing imagery from high and low culture, Zuckerman\u2019s collaged works are now a hot commodity at auction. Her large-scale painting\u00a0The First Royal Portrait<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2018) sold for a hammer price of $200,000, more than six times the low estimate. The anonymous seller purchased it just three years ago at the New York gallery Kravets\/Wehby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n10<\/span><\/p>\nAmoako Boafo,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"Amoako](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Boafo-e1624906533213.png?w=530\")
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<\/p>\nSold for $1.2 million<\/strong><\/p>\n Known for her paintings drawing on Rococo styles pioneered in the 18th century by artists like Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau, Flora Yukhnovich recently got major gallery representation in 2019 at Victoria Miro, which has locations in London and Venice. At the time, she hadn\u2019t even turned 30. Now, the London-based artist\u2019s work has caught the attention of international buyers, including Scottish property developer David Roberts. At Phillips, her canvas\u00a0Pretty Little Thing<\/em>\u00a0(2019) sold for $1.2 million, 20 times its estimate of $60,000, setting a new record and surpassing her previous record of $29,900, paid for an untitled 2018 work on paper at Bonhams in April 2021.\u00a0Pretty Little Thing<\/em>\u00a0is the third work by the artist ever to be auctioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $756,000<\/strong><\/p>\n Emily Mae Smith\u2019s surreal paintings featuring broom-like characters have captivated the art market in recent years.\u00a0Waiting Room<\/em>\u00a0(2015), which depicts Smith\u2019s protagonist with its eyes replaced by ticking clocks, was once included \u201cUnrealism<\/a>,\u201d a show curated in 2015 by dealers Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian for Art Basel Miami. Just this month in Hong Kong, Phillips set the artist\u2019s record with\u00a0Broom Life\u00a0<\/em>(2014), which sold for HKD 12.4 million ($1.6 million), besting the work\u2019s high estimate 20 times over. This work didn\u2019t sell for quite as much, though it also performed well, going for a total of $756,000, 19 times its low estimate of $40,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $378,000<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the past few years, there\u2019s been a wave of interest in young figurative painters challenging Western depictions of Black subjects. Among them is the South African star Cinga Samson, whose 2018 painting of a young Black with a vacant stare man made a splash at Phillips.\u00a0Two Piece<\/a> 1<\/em>\u00a0was sold by Oslo-based collector and translation service owner Arne Austrheim, who bought it in 2018 from Cape Town\u2019s blank projects gallery. At the time, Samson\u2019s works were selling privately at prices between $10,000 and $15,000. These days, that small sum looks like a big discount. At Phillips, after bids flooded in from New York, Hong Kong, and London,\u00a0Two Piece 1<\/em>\u00a0sold to an online bidder for a hammer price of $300,000 ($378,000 with premium), 12 times the work\u2019s low estimate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $201,600<\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Wonner\u2019s\u00a0Flowers, Chairs, a Dog and Two Birds<\/em>\u00a0(1986) came to Phillips from the collection of California arts patron Robin Quist Gates<\/a>, who bought it in 1986 and held on to it until her death in 2021. Wonner, who died in 2008, painted intricate still lifes, and has largely remained a lesser-known figure associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, which also included Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park. Gate\u2019s heirs sold it at Phillips for $201,600\u201413 times the work\u2019s low estimate of $15,000\u2014making it the sixth-highest selling work by Wonner to surface at auction. Still, it is short of Wonner\u2019s current record price of $324,000, paid for his 1959 canvas\u00a0Still life with cup<\/em>\u00a0back in 2007 during a contemporary art day sale at Sotheby\u2019s in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $107,100<\/strong><\/p>\n Ugandan painter Godwin Champs Namuyimba was represented at Phillips by his painting\u00a0Destiny<\/em>\u00a0(2019), which depicts a Black astronaut in repose, his head resting on a globe. John Auerbach, a former Sotheby\u2019s executive and an art collector, originally purchased work directly from the artist at a time when his paintings were selling for prices between $1,000 and $2,000. It sold for $107,100, 13 times the estimate of $8,000, just days before the artist is due to have a solo show at New York\u2019s East Projects<\/a> gallery. In the past year, a group of works by the young artist have recently surfaced at auction, going for prices well past their low estimate.<\/p>\n Sold for $277,200<\/strong><\/p>\n At Phillips\u2019s day sale, Angel Otero\u2019s\u00a0Acis and Galatea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2013), made in homage to a painting by Nicolas Poussin of the same name, sold for $277,200, 11 times its estimate of $25,000. The result marks a new record for the artist, who is a staple in contemporary art auctions. It surpassed Otero\u2019s previous benchmark of $162,4oo, paid for\u00a0Drifter\u2019s Escape<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2015) at Phillips recent Hong Kong sale staged in collaboration with Chinese auction house Poly on June 7. The seller purchased the thickly painted canvas at a Christie\u2019s New York sale in March 2013, where it was auctioned to benefit the Brooklyn Museum for $52,500. In 2013, the work was given a $20,000 low estimate; it is now worth nearly 14 times that amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $214,200<\/strong><\/p>\n Los Angeles\u2013based artist Alex Gardner, who is part of the L.A. artist-run collective New Image Art , is known for his dreamy compositions of featureless Black subjects. (For a 2020 show at the Hole gallery in New York, he introduced blue characters to his oeuvre, telling\u00a0Metal<\/em>magazine<\/a> that the choice is meant to reinforce the \u201cintended universality of the figures.\u201d) At Phillips, Gardner\u2019s\u00a0Chair #2\u00a0<\/em>(2016), depicting one figure sitting atop another kneeling one, sold for $214,200, 10 times the $20,000 low estimate. The result set a record for the artist, outdoing the $191,600 paid for\u00a0Triangle #2<\/em>\u00a0(2016) at Phillips during a New York contemporary art sale just two months ago, in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $310,000<\/strong><\/p>\n At just 27 years old, Jad\u00e9 Fadojutimi<\/a> is currently the youngest artist in the collection of the Tate. It\u2019s been a big year for the British artist, with her work on view in the Liverpool Biennial and solo shows at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami in the pipeline. Alongside all this, her market has taken off, with a new record of $725,000 minted at Phillips in Hong Kong earlier this year. At Phillips in New York, her chaotically composed painting\u00a0Untitled\u00a0<\/em>(2018) outpaced expectations, selling for $390,600, 6 times the low estimate of $60,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for $252,000<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2018, when she was just 27 years old, Allison Zuckerman emerged during Art Basel Miami Beach as one of the fair\u2019s ascending talents. Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell gave her solo show at their museum that year\u2014and effectively put her on the map. Sourcing imagery from high and low culture, Zuckerman\u2019s collaged works are now a hot commodity at auction. Her large-scale painting\u00a0The First Royal Portrait<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2018) sold for a hammer price of $200,000, more than six times the low estimate. The anonymous seller purchased it just three years ago at the New York gallery Kravets\/Wehby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\nEmily Mae Smith,\u00a0Waiting Room<\/em>, 2015<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nCinga Samson,\u00a0Two Piece 1<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nPaul Wonner,\u00a0Flowers, Chairs, a Dog and Two Birds<\/em>, 1986<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nGodwin Champs Namuyimba,\u00a0Destiny<\/em>, 2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAngel Otero,\u00a0Acis and Galatea<\/em>, 2013<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAlex Gardner,\u00a0Chair #2<\/em>, 2016<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nJad\u00e9 Fadojutimi,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAllison Zuckerman,\u00a0The First Royal Portrait<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nAmoako Boafo,\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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