[ Moss: dialogs between art & design auction at Phillips de Pury ] totaled $5,567,750 selling 82% by value and 69% by lot. The auction set world records for Maarten Bass, Studio Job, Hella Jongerius, Patricia Urquiola and Robert Wilson.
alberto giacometti | unique torso de femme | 1932 | click > enlarge
The impressive results reflects Phillips de Pury & Company’s commitment to the sale and promotion of important design and Murray Moss’s consistent leadership in the field.
[ top ten lots ]
44 ALBERTO GIACOMETTI | Unique Torse de femme | 1932 | $2,994,500
67 FRANK STELLA | Brit (Q-6) | from the Moby-Dick series | 1990 | $338,500
76 GEORGE CONDO | Girl with Purple Dress, 1986 | $314,500
42 MAARTEN BAAS | ‘Grandfather Clock Veneer’ | from the ‘Real Time’ series | 2009 | $134,500
9 KAZIMIR MALEVICH | Ceiling plan for the Red Theater | Leningrad | 1931 | $116,500
20 STUDIO JOB JOB SMEETS AND NYNKE TYNAGEL | ‘Robber Baron’ floor lamp | 2007 | $110,500
102 DOUG ARGUE | Randomly Placed Exact Percentages | 2010 | $92,500
108 HELLA JONGERIUS | ‘Giant Prince’ vase | 2000 | $86,500
8 GIO PONTI | ‘Parete Organizzata’ illuminated wall organizer | 1950 | $86,500
110 FERNANDO AND HUMBERTO CAMPANA | ‘Teddy Bear Banquete’ chair | 2004 | $68,500
[ artist records ]
42 MAARTEN BAAS | ‘Grandfather Clock Veneer’ | from the ‘Real Time’ series | 2009 | $134,500
20 STUDIO JOB | JOB SMEETS AND NYNKE TYNAGEL | ‘Robber Baron’ floor lamp | 2007 | $110,500
108 HELLA JONGERIUS | ‘Giant Prince’ vase | 2000 | $86,500
96 ROBERT WILSON | Civil War Acts !,II, III, IV, V | 72 Works | 1983 | $56,250
57 PATRICIA URQUIOLA | Unique prototype ‘Crossing’ table | 2012 | $15,000
Murray Moss is an internationally renowned authority on contemporary design and is frequently guest speaker at art academies, universities and cultural institutions around the country. With his long time business partner, Franklin Getchell, Moss runs [ Moss Bureau ], a New York-based multidisciplinary design consultancy that assists private and institutional collectors of contemporary design in an advisory and curatorial capacity.
[ Phillips de Pury & Company ] conducts auctions in New York and London and has representative offices throughout Europe in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey and in the United States in Los Angeles and Chicago.
