Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s collection in Los Angeles

The event will include 16 portraits by 8 contemporary musicians: Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Llyn Foulkes, Pope.L, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Thomas Houseago. The program will likewise include an outside sculpture installment on Christie’s Beverly Hills balcony by Houseago. More than half of the works deal with human figuration, according to Christie’s. The motif was picked by the Pinault Collection’s curatorial team.

The non-selling show, called Eye Get in touch with: An Invite to the Pinault Collection, is readied to range from 22 January to 28 March, accompanying the art globe’s movement to Los Angeles for the annual Frieze reasonable beginning on 20 February.

Last month, Christie’s introduced a decrease in annual sales for the second year running with its forecasted 2024 sales (some sales were yet to close in mid-December). Christie’s brought in $5.7 bn across all sales of art and luxury products, a decrease of 6% from the $6.1 bn the previous year.

Christie’s will certainly open an event of work with car loan from the Pinault Collection, the personal collection of French billionaire François Pinault– whose holding firm Groupe Artémis has the auction residence– in the coming weeks at Christie’s Beverly Hills gallery.

“For more than 25 years, Christie’s has actually been blessed to have as its proprietor a prominent enthusiast with a deep passion for modern art and artists,” Christie’s president Guillaume Cerutti said in a declaration. “For the very first time, Christie’s will certainly have the honour of exhibiting a choice of works from his collection.”