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Pop Art Market Stronger Than Ever
Nov 15th, 2010

Last Wednesday evening, November 10th, Christie's New York held an auction of post-war and contemporary art featuring many Guy Hepner artists and recorded oustanding results. Once again, the art world was reminded exactly why the genre was originally deemed 'Popular' art: This past week's showing proved the demand for Pop Art continues to match exactly what is available.

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two artists that defined the period, both represented by Guy Hepner, comprised a dominating portion of the lots, and with good reason:

Each work that went to auction by Andy Warhol sold. Warhol's piece, "Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable)," reached an incredible $23,882,500, while his "Marilyn," (pictured below), climbed to $4,450,5000. "Jackie," went for $1,650,500, "Dance Diagram," hit $1,538,500, and "Dennis Hopper," hit $965,500.



Roy Lichtenstein's results were no less impressive. The apathetic red-head in Lichtenstein's "Ohhh...Alright," from 1964 broke a record for the artist at $42,642,500 while one of Lichtenstein's later works, a fragmented thinker, and "Dennis Hopper," hit $965,500.



An insatiable demand for Pop Art exists and continues to expand the contemporary art market.

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Now On View
Nov 08th, 2010

Guy Hepner offers a look at what's now on view at 300 N. Robertson Blvd. Artists Gavin Bond, Chris Bracey and Russell Young all have works on display now at Guy Hepner but also anticipate new works coming in this week.

From fashion photography giant, Gavin Bond's collection "Backstage: Volume 1," the brightly colored and sexy number "11" is now on view at Guy Hepner. Also expected to arrive this week are two new works from Bond's "Rebellion" series featuring Jenna Jameson.



Hugely popular neon light artist Chris Bracey's work, "Jesus Loves U," flashes spectacularly at Guy Hepner and will soon be accompanied by three works from Bracey's newest collection, "Seven Deadly Sins," including "Envy," "Lust," and "Love and Anger."



A selection of works from Russell Young's "Diamond Dust" collection are now on view at Guy Hepner. Also coming in this week to Guy Hepner are ten small canvases from Young's "Pig Portrait" collection.



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West Hollywood CA, 90048

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Warhol Paintings: Flowers
Nov 01th, 2010

Andy Warhol changed art forever. He is an undeniable, defining feature of modern art history, and his work is prized as a pivotal and necessary feature at Guy Hepner. His Flower Paintings series comes late in his life, and offers an expanse of insight into a legend's artistic mind through a seemingly mundane subject.


The idea to paint flowers as the subject of a major series was apparently suggested to Warhol by Henry Geldzahler, then curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. To some degree, the pictures belong to a long art historical tradition of still-life painting.

"With the Flowers, Andy was just trying a different subject matter. In a funny way, he was kind of repeating the history of art. It was like, now we're doing my Flower period! Like Monet's water lilies, Van Gogh's flowers, the genre." (Gerard Malanga as cited in A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol, New York 2003, p. 74).




The Flowers paintings followed Warhol's Death and Disaster series of 1962-1963--sensational images of electric chairs, suicides and horrendous car-crashes. While the Flowers can be seen as the vacuous flip-side of this horror and violence, there are some critics who believe that they are still permeated by Warhol's deep obsession with death. "What is incredible about the best of the flower paintings (especially the large ones) is that they present a distillation of much of the strength of Warhol's art--the flash of beauty that suddenly becomes tragic under the viewer's gaze. The garish and brilliantly colored flowers always gravitate toward the surrounding blackness and finally end up in a sea of morbidity. No matter how much one wishes these flowers to remain beautiful they perish under one's gaze, as if haunted by death." (J. Coplans, "Andy Warhol: The Art", Andy Warhol, exh. cat., Pasadena Art Museum, 1970, p.52).

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NEW Artist: FC SOFIA
Nov 01th, 2010

Guy Hepner is thrilled to announce the new representation of Neo Pop artist, FC SOFIA.



Artist FC SOFIA's discourse is situated at the crossroads between Pop Art and the Nouveaux Réalistes. Like the latter, they use objects lifted from the reality of their time, and do so thanks to a new and hyperactive tool: the Internet; a veritable global supermarket of raw material at their disposal for their works. This progressive approach has situated FC SOFIA at the top of the art market, and an exciting addition to Guy Hepner.



FC SOFIA creaties a union of both art and symbol, producing works that are in direct reference to the myths of consumerism, luxury and fashion, then playing on form and void the better to express the alienation provoked by accumulation at all cost. Each FC SOFIA work screams an integration of pop and visual culture, underscored with an associated commentary on the cult of consumerism and many other facets of modern society.



The couple, Catherine and Frederic, currently lives and works in Paris as one of the hottest artists on the market and at Guy Hepner. If ever there was way to reinvent popular art themes in a consumer society, FC SOFIA has found it. Soon to be on view at Guy Hepner, FC SOFIA offers an true originality in every sense of the world, while still rooted in a modern context.

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New Chris Bracey: "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Oct 18th, 2010

Following record auction results this past weekend at Sotheby's in London, Guy Hepner represented neon sign artist, Chris Bracey, announces the impending release of his newest body neon of work, "The Seven Deadly Sins."

Guy Hepner anticipates the exclusive release of Bracey's newest body of work, scheduled to be on view and to become available in November. Below Bracey's neon sign work entitled "Lust," one of the seven sins, offers a preview into the neon collection soon to be available at Guy Hepner.



Already in high demand by those in the film industry and at Guy Hepner, Chris Bracey is now hitting the art world as one of the hottest new artists on the market. The specific date of release and exhibition of Bracey's neon signs at Guy Hepner will soon be announced.

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Chris Bracey: Record Price at London Auction
Oct 18th, 2010

Chris Bracey, one of the most in demand artists at Guy Hepner, went to auction last Saturday at Sotheby's in London with outsanding results.

Bracey's neon 'light art' installations are bold in experience; a product of a man enchanted with the possibilities of light expression. As one of the hottest and most promising new artists discovered, his neon signs have been commissioned by the biggest directors and featured in many films.

His work, "Seduce Me," went to auction this past weekend during London's Frieze Week, and reached an impressive $28,000, outperforming several blue chip artists in the same sale.



Bracey's results prove that despite the current economic state, Guy Hepner's artists are still outperforming the market and setting constant records. After Gavin Bond, Alex Cao, and Russell Young, Chris Bracey is the fourth artist represented by Guy Hepner to set a record at auction during October.

Chris Bracey's new body of work, "The Seven Deadly SIns," will be exhibited and available at Guy Hepner in November, at a date soon to be announced.

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Record Auction Prices for Gavin Bond and Alex Cao
Oct 11th, 2010

This past weekend in New York, artists Alex Guofeng Cao and Gavin Bond, both represented by Guy Hepner, went to auction at Phillips de Pury & Company and sold pieces for record prices.

Alex Cao's work entitled, "Warhol vs. Mao, After Mapplethorpe," reached $10,000 while his "Brigitte Bardot vs. Eve, Creation of Eve," was sold for an impressive $21,250. Additional works have also just been added to Cao's collection, "Decompose/Recompose: Resurrect," at www.guyhepner.com.




Gavin Bond's collection, "Backstage: Volume II," climbed to $22,500 and his new work, "Juste Parce Que Je Suis Belle, Numero Un," from his set "Juste Parce Que Je Suis Belle," sold for a record $26,250. Both Cao and Bond's works hit record prices that even surpassed those of more established artists like David LaChapelle and Steven Klein.



Guy Hepner is proud to announce the release of this new Box Set by Gavin Bond, "Juste Parce Que Je Suis Belle," comprised of a suite of eight 26 x 22 inch photographs on satin paper. The set is now exclusively available at Guy Hepner.

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