Guy Yanai - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale Hong Kong Saturday, June 1, 2024 | Phillips
  • “First finished painting of 2021. A transcription of David Hockney’s 30 Sunflowers[…] What is harder than painting flowers? This painting was deviously hard. I think the aim was to attempt to freeze it.”
    — Guy Yanai

     

     

    David Hockney in front of 30 Sunflowers at the Annely Juda Exhibition opening, July 1997. 
    Image: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

     

    • Provenance

      Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

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30 Sunflowers (after David Hockney)

signed and dedicated 'guy yanai FOR: CHARLIE' on the overlap
oil on canvas
200 x 180 cm. (78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2021.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
HK$200,000 - 300,000 
€23,700-35,500
$25,600-38,500

Sold for HK$444,500

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

Hong Kong Auction 1 June 2024