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Healing Arts Charity Auction

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary London Sale

View the Healing Arts Artworks on the Christie's Website

Dirk Boll, President of Christie’s, Europe, Middle East, Russia and India, introduces the Healing Arts section of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary London sale, featuring contemporary masters including Antony Gormley, William Kentridge, Martin Creed, Miquel Barcelo, Ragnar Kjartansson and Yoshitomo Nara. Proceeds will benefit the WHO Foundation and The Future is Unwritten Artists’ Response Fund to support the mental health response to the pandemic through the arts. Come and bid or just follow the online action live.

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Antony Gormley

Artist

Ragnar Credit Elisabet Davids RK 50 A6709 1 web

Ragnar Kjartansson

Artist

William Kentridge

Artist & Founder of Center for the Less Good Idea

Martin Creed

Artist

Yoshitomo Nara

Artist

Dirk Boll

President of Christie’s in Europe, Middle East, Russia and India

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Yoshitomo Nara
徒手空拳 / Empty-Handed
Drawing on paper
24.6 x 24 cm
2020

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Ragnar Kjartansson
Figures in Landscape (Friday)
Single Channel Video
Duration 24-Hours
2018

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Martin Creed
Work No. 3439: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
White neon
7.5 x 206.5 cm
Executed in 2020

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William Kentridge
#11733 Hyacinths (Wait Once Again for Better People)
Lithograph on paper
164.7 x 151.7 cm
2020

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Antony Gormley
Dive
Carbon and casein on paper
38.2 x 28 cm
2019

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Healing Arts London schedule

Full Event schedule

Healing Arts London, from 22 to 26 March 2021, will be a week of dialogues, interviews, videos, and auction to support a rapid response to the COVID-19 crisis on mental health

Day 1: Frame of Mind

Gillian Anderson, Actor, in conversation with Christopher Bailey, Art & Health Lead, WHO; with special guests Sir Antony Gormley, Artist, and Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO

Day 2: Creation in Confinement

Hosted by Ben Luke (The Art Newspaper Podcast) with William Kentridge & Phala Ookeditse Phala (The Center for the Less Good Idea), Ragnar Kjartansson, Susie Hamilton (Hospital Rooms), Hani Rashid (Asymptote Architecture) in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jonathan Aitken (Chaplain, Pentonville Prison) & Dan Brown, among others

Day 3: WHO Arts and Health Panels

Our colleagues from the WHO host discussions between researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to ask the question, what is the verifiable evidence that art heals? We also take a look at the role of the arts as a therapy to ease mental health conditions for patient and caregiver alike

Lot 9 Rubens Samson Delilah on screen in room 2 V1

Day 4: Healing Arts Charity Auction

As part of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary London sale, contemporary masters including Antony Gormley, William Kentridge, Martin Creed, Ragnar Kjartansson and Yoshitomo Nara have generously donated works to support front-line art and mental health programmes in the wake of Covid-19

Day 5: Artists on the Frontline

This panel will discuss how artists are working on the frontlines of the current crisis and how the pandemic might change the art-world systems and values of the past decades. Panel discussion chaired by Anna Somers Cocks, founder editor, The Art Newspaper; Dr Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange, Tate Museums; Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, co-founder, UK Black Pride; and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin