Kings Auctions Beverly Hills Street Art 5 million $ Charity Auction

Invader (b. 1969) "Alien Boy" - Medium: wood tile on canvas - Signed lower left and dated 2008.Measures 36" x 47" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. Executed in green, yellow, orange, red, purple, and aqua blue wood tiles over ablack painted canvas. The artist depicts a standard ship in rainbow spectrum fromthe famous arcade-game: Space Invaders.Constructed for exhibition use only and accompanied by Certificate of Origin from Invader.Invader is an anonymous French street artist. He is known for his ceramic tile mosaicsmodeled on the pixelated art of 1970s?1980s 8-bit video games, many of which depict thetitular aliens from the arcade games Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros.?I don?t have a message to deliver to the world and I am not openly political. The wayI operate is per se already political as I intervene illegally for 99% of my installation.I am into artistic experimentation rather than political opposition. I like the concept ofdecontextualizing art t

Metin Bereketli "Diversity 5" - Medium: acrylic on canvas - Signed lower right and dated 2001.Measures 48" x 60" (framed). Original acrylic on canvas painting by Metin Bereketli, "Diversity 5" was usedand featured on NBC's smash series "FRIENDS", as a background behind the famous orange couch in the "CENTRALPERK COFFEE HOUSE". It is still being viewed by hundreds of millions of TV viewers and appearing in TIME Magazine and the NY Post and many other national periodicals. Metin Bereketli is an internationally acclaimed Los Angeles based painter. His contemporaryworks have been featured in museums, galleries, and exhibitions worldwide including theSmithsonian Institution National Museum of Art Library, Sotheby's London, CaliforniaScience Center, Exposition Park, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures Studios, PetersonAutomotive Museum, Playboy Mansion, House of Blues, Pacific Design Center, andHollywood & Highland.Metin is an artist who has dedicated himself to the evolution of mankind wi

Bill Traylor (1853-1949) "Rabbit Hunt" - Medium: Tempera on Board - Signed lower right. Measures 17" x 14" (framed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. "Rabbit Hunt" by Bill Traylor reveals the Outsider artist's process as well as his highlysophisticated understanding of space, color, form, and composition. It includes a numberof vibrant figurative elements: two men point weapons at their captured bounty while onedashes through the foreground with their prize, a disproportionately large red rabbit atopa vast cooking pot.William Traylor was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama.Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper.It was only after 1939, following his move to Montgomery, Alabama, that Traylor began to draw. Provenance: Private collection of Patricia Lynn Beebe, listed on Artnet.com, Galerie Perlita 2021, Musee d' Art Moderne 2022. The copyrights and reproduction rights of this original artwork

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) "Gramophone" - Medium: oil on board - Signed lower right and dated 1954. Measures 8" x 6" (framed). Floated under museum glass. From a private collection, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1970s. By descent to the present owner The subject of the painting is based on a phonograph, in its later forms also called agramophone or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, advice for the mechanical and analogue recording and reproduction of sound; a tool in which Abercrombie was very fond. Music and jazz in particular was a dominant influence in her life.There are other elements in the painting that are familiar from Abercrombie's oeuvre as well. The ascetic foreground and background is a meaningful an

Blek Le Rat (b. 1952) "Rat Attack" - Medium: three color spray paint on canvas - Signed upper right and dated 2009.Measures 48" x 36" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection.Blek le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1951, was one of thevery first graffiti artists in Paris, and is considered the originator of stencil movement.During a trip to the United States in 1971, he discovered the first graffiti in NYC whichintrigued and impressed him deeply. But when he began to paint in the street in 1981 inParis, he chose the stencil that had a more latin style which he felt was better suited tothe architecture of Paris. His first stencils were small black rats that he made run alongthe walls of Paris. The rat, the anagram of the word ART.

King Robbo (b. 1969) "Son of Robot" - Medium: paint on canvas - Signed lower left and dated 2011. Measures 39" x 39" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. Executed in black, gray, white, and aqua blue. A solitary robot figure stands before ablock-masonry wall wearing a black hat, suit and tie, with a green apple in his mouth.A text-box is coming from the figure on lower-left with the artist's signature: "KINGROBBO".This street art masterwork was constructed for promotional exhibition use only, and isaccompanied by King Robbo Certificate of Origin.Provenance: Private collector, Galerie Perlita 2021, Musee d' Art Moderne 2022King Robbo was an English underground graffiti artist. His feud with the artist Banksywas the subject of a Channel 4 television documentary called Graffiti Wars, first shownin August 2011. King Robbo started tagging trains in London in the 1980s after the practicebecame popular in New York, though he became less active in the 90s. A representative from

Antonio Saura (1930-1998) Neo-Expressionist Portrait - Medium: watercolor and ink - Signed lower right and dated 1981. Measures 9" x 8" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. Antonio Saura was born on September 22, 1930, in Huesca, Spain. When Saura was young,his father took him to Madrid to visit the Museo del Prado, where he viewed paintings by Francisco de Goya and Diego Velezquez. After he contracted tuberculosis at age thirteen and was confined to his bed for five years, Saura reflected on his visit to the Prado. In 1947, on his way to recovery and without formal training, he began to produce art. Initially he experimented with diverse mediums, including paint, lithography, engraving, prose, and poetry.Antonio Saura Atar's was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and

Carlos Merida (1891-1985) "Orange, White and Black (Abstract)" - Medium: oil on canvas - Signed lower right and dated 1980. Measures 24" x 21" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. Carlos Merida was a Guatemalan artist who was one of the first to fuse European modern painting to Latin American themes, especially those related to Guatemala and Mexico.In 1910, at the age of 19, Merida presented work in his first art exhibition. That same year,he moved to Paris, where he lived for four years and met and worked with Pablo Picasso,Piet Mondrian, and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as several prominent Latin American artists residing in Europe at that time.In 1919, Merida returned to Latin America and lived in Mexico as the Mexican Revolution drew to an end. There, he worked with Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo. Merida's extensive and varied body of work fused aspects of Surrealism, Muralism, Cubism,and Euro

David Park (1911-1960) "Two Faces" - Medium: oil on canvas. Signed lower left and dated 1960. Measures 24" x 20" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. David Park was one of the post-World War II alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute which was called the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) at the time.He revived an interest in figurative art, at first experimenting with still-abstracted form sthat relied on color for their impact, dynamics and warmth. Park, along with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, broke away from the philosophy of painting promoted by Clyfford Still, who taught at the Institute, forming what would later be called the BayArea Figurative Movement. Their influence may be seen in the work of later Bay Area Figurative School artists such as Paul John Wonner, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri,Henry Villierme, Henr

David Park (1911-1960) "The Thinker" - Medium: oil on canvas - Signed lower right and dated 1960. Measures 21" x 17" (unframed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. Park made a rather quick transition from pure Abstract Expressionism to the figurative expressionism born at California School of Fine Art (CSFA) in the 1950s. Partly this was a reaction to the harsh Abstract Expressionist work of Clyfford Still, one of his fellow instructors at CSFA, but it also was in step with his friends Elmer Bischoff and Hassel Smith who were also defecting from the pure expressionism of the NewYork school.Almost immediately after the departure of Still from CSFA, Bischoff and Smith, along with Richard Diebenkorn, pushed Park to take his commitment to the figurative expressionist movement in a more definitive manner.Park's work in particular explored th

David Park (1911-1960) "Female Nude" - Medium: oil on canvas - Signed lower right and dated 1960. Measures 29" x 17" (framed). From a Beverly Hills private collection. David Park was one of the post-World War II alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute which was called the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) at the time.He revived an interest in figurative art, at first experimenting with still-abstracted forms that relied on color for their impact, dynamics and warmth. Park, along with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, broke away from the philosophy of painting promoted by Clyfford Still, who taught at the Institute, forming what would later be called the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Their influence may be seen in the work of later Bay Area Figurative School artists such as Paul John Wonner, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri,Henry Villier

Hovik Kochinian (b. 1953) "Gracefulness" - Medium: mixed media on canvas - Measures 55" x 41". Private collection of Hovik Kochinian. The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 108 times, mostly in the Painting category. The oldest auction recorded online being the sale of his work"Dancers" sold in 2010 at Jean Marc Gallery & Auction House (Painting) and the most recent is ?Portrait? sold in 2022 (Painting).Hovik Kochinian was born in the Lori region of Armenia in 1953. In his youth,he exhibited great interest in fine arts. He started attending art school at age 7. In1972 Hovik graduated from the State University of Armenia. During his student years, he participated in several state and nationwide exhibitions.