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Christie's Presale Show:
Light and Space Enough to Really See Judd
[The New York Times] For the next two weeks, New York has something it may never have again: a small, unpretentious single-artist museum devoted to the achievements of the Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd. An untitled piece by Donald Judd at the Christie's presale show: a free-standing piece from 1988. This museum has been rather hastily assembled by an unlikely entity: Christie's New York. Its unlikely setting is two floors atop the Simon & Schuster Building, around the corner from the auction house at Rockefeller Center. The show is, in fact, the presale exhibition of 35 Judd works offered for sale by the Judd Foundation, established by the artist's estate in 1996, two years after his death. Everything on view is to be sold to the highest bidder on May 9, the final day of the show. The works, which date from around 1970 to 1993, form a haphazard, partial and sometimes redundant survey of... full article

Boxing Day
[New York Magazine] Buyers continue to gravitate toward contemporary art—and Donald Judd’s the hottest ticket. At the postwar- and contemporary-art auctions this year, the grown-ups will get plenty of respect. Collectors and dealers may be plucking kids out of art-school classrooms, but prices look solid for fortysomething German painters and eighties survivors like Jeff Koons, and the big money is on mid-century masters like de Kooning. Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s have made concerted efforts to win works by these heavy hitters while building street cred with work by conceptualists like Mike Kelley. Donald Judd—the late minimalist sculptor, designer, critic, and seer-philosopher—dominates Christie’s May 9 Post-War & Contemporary sale, expected to reach $160 million. Twenty-six works from the Judd Foundation are in the evening sale, about $15 million worth. BIG PRIZES: The top Judd lot is a stacked tier of six plywood boxes backed... full article

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