The next auctions. Transition to autumn among artifacts, fashion, curiosities

We talked about some of the main auctions of September from the largest auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips. Let’s now look at the cases of Heritage Auctions and PIASA.

The skull of the prehistoric wolf auctioned by Heritage Auctions

On August 29 at 11 AM, the auction by Heritage Auctions will feature the skull of a large prehistoric wolf. The auction of the auction house headquartered in Dallas includes lots of Natural History and Science. There are 200 lots featuring giant gems and amber with insects inside, petrified and colored conifer wood, fossil fish (scorpion fish, crabs), teeth (of shark) and prehistoric bones, meteorites, gold. Among the most anticipated pieces are also a cave bear skeleton, a mosasaur skull “lizard of the Meuse River,” and an impressive fossil turtle. The total bids collected so far are $597,635. The estimate for the wolf skull starts at $30,000.

Among the upcoming auctions: PIASA, the bet on fashion by Comme des Garçons

On October 1st at 2 PM, during Paris Fashion Week, PIASA will auction one of the most significant collections in the world dedicated to the designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons that combines high fashion and streetwear. The collection has been assembled over the last ten years by the Japanese collector Hiroaki Narita. Narita founded the first auction house in the Land of the Rising Sun, dedicated to design. His fifteen-year-old son Simon created all the images for the auction catalog.

It is an anthology of over 500 lots from the period 1969-1999. They are drawn from the most iconic collections of the brand, such as Pirates (1981), Noir (1988), Metamorphosis (1994), and Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body (1997). The estimates range from 150 to 2,000 euros. From the 26th to the 30th, the clothes will be displayed on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The song Tous les garçons et les filles by Françoise Hardy inspired the name of the brand, created in 1969.

PIASA and the auction with the design collection from Cindy Sherman’s Parisian apartment

Cindy Sherman was the protagonist of the centennial cover of the New Yorker. It is the second time that the magazine’s cover features an artist’s photograph. In 1925, for the first publication, the editor-in-chief Harold Ross turned to Rea Irvin, the art director. He conceived the image of a young man with a top hat observing a butterfly through a monocle. The dandy was named Eustace Tilley, and Cindy Sherman portrays him in her photograph. Sherman is the chameleonic performer who has self-portrayed in the guise of female characters in the Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980). The aim was to critique gender and identity in mass society and the recurring female stereotypes in cinema, television, and the advertising industry.

PIASA, founded in Paris in 1996, auctions the contents (furnishings and design works) of the American artist Cindy Sherman’s Parisian pied-à-terre, designed by the Laplace studio. Luis Laplace is a Franco-Argentinian architect. Among the most important projects are the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Paris, an award-winning art center in an 18th-century farm in Somerset, and another in Minorca, located in a former military hospital.

Modernist furniture, contemporary art works, rare design pieces, fashion accessories, luxury items like personalized luggage will be auctioned at the auction on Thursday, October 2 in Paris.

Giorgia Basili

She has collaborated for many years with art magazines such as Artribune, XIBT Contemporary, ArtApp, Insideart and Espoarte, preferring contemporary art in its many facets and media drifts.