Erdem Moralioglu Selects Artworks to Sell at Sotheby’s London Inline
Alex Katz, b. 1927, Buttercup 11/8Alex Katz, Buttercup 1, 2002
“It s so beautiful—plus, it looks like something that might have been scribbled in a diary.”
Bernd and Hilla Becherm 1931 - 2007 and b.1934, Forderturme (Winding Towers) gelatin silver print2/8Bernd and Hilla Becher, Fördertürme (Winding Towers), 1966-1973
“People might be surprised to see that this appeals to me. It’s the obsessiveness of the cataloging of industrial towers by this husband-and-wife duo that I like. It’s as if you are always looking at the same object; it’s just the foreground or the horizon that changes.”
George Condo, b. 1957, Untitled3/8George Condo, Untitled, 2000
“I’m of the Muppet generation—the Fraggle Rock, human/animal quality of this figurative work appealed to me. It’s as playful as it is disturbing.”
Josef Albers, 1888 - 1976m Study for Hommage to the Square: Framed Sky ‘C’4/8Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: “Framed Sky” C, 1970
“The color is so saturated, it’s like a Pantone square. I’ve always been attracted to color, and Josef Albers is one of the great colorists. I was also fascinated that he’d taught at the Bauhaus, then left Germany, and then started teaching Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg at Black Mountain College in North Carolina . . . This is an incredible chance to own something by him.”
Louise Bourgeois. 1911 - 2010, Untitled5/8Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2000
“I first saw her work at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art. I thought it was mind-blowing; she creates a world through the humanness of her work. This is mysterious and slightly menacing.”
