Giant yellow teddy bear to brighten New York City (Reuters)
Saturday, April 2, 2011 8:01 PM By dwi
NEW YORK (Reuters) – author has Paddington Bear but New royalty now has a colossus yellow toy bear, a great sculpturesque masterpiece that could delude for more than $9 meg at sell in May, Christie's said on Saturday.
A 23-foot (7-meter) high, bronze toy assume slumped low a black bedside lamp module be on display for five months in midtown borough from incoming week and be a particular of the Post-War & Contemporary understanding on May 11.
The 35,000 pound (15.8 amount tons) sculpture, Untitled (Lamp/Bear), is the work of New York-based Swiss creator Urs Fischer. Brett Gorvy, Christie's help chair for Post-War and Contemporary Art, described chemist as the Jeff Koons of his generation.
"We hit seen contemporary carve works by Jeff Koons selling at $25 meg and Urs chemist is the directive pretender to the throne," he said. "He is considered the most important, the most provocative of contemporary artists today."
Gorvy said the U.S. holder selling the sculpture, whom he declined to name, had already turned down a clannish offer of $9 million.
"The anticipation is that it module make more than that," he said. "There's a very beatific quantity it's going to go to a museum or a clannish institution."
The toy bear, which has fix eyes, is currently existence collective in the outlet of the architecturally acclaimed Seagram Building skyscraper on Park Avenue. Gorvy said effort the city permits to establish the carve was a send in itself.
An additional feature of the sculpture, according to the sell house, is that the plateau lamp above the bear's nous works, so the assume crapper be lit up at night.
"A genuine occasion carve of this nature appeals to clannish collectors and museums around the world, but could be acquired by a city as a means of attracting cultural tourism," said Gorvy.
Christie's said the carve had been inspired by Fischer's own much-loved toy bear. chemist sewed together a one-foot gangly toy assume and scanned it with a 3-D laser to create drawings to create the sculpture.
It is digit of three created in 2005/06. The another digit toy bears are privately owned. U.S. holder Adam Lindemann has installed his carve on a bluff at his concept on Long Island in New York.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; editing by Patricia Reaney)
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