LONDON, ENGLAND.- Vision 21 is the innovative sale that delivers great design, diverse style and inspiration dating from 1945 to the present day. Conceived 4 years ago, Vision 21 encompasses Post War Paintings, Prints, Photographs, Sculpture and Modern Design. Bonhams in Knightsbridge has a long-held reputation for innovative ideas and, over the years, has introduced many new areas of collecting – such as Contemporary Ceramics and Rock and Pop Memorabilia, which have challenged traditional categories. Vision 21 takes place on Wednesday 25 October 2006 at Bonhams in Knightsbridge.

This year, Vision 21 includes a section on alluring women.

GIRLS: Bonhams was approached by a lady rather keen to sell her husbands collection of ‘Girls’ as she termed it, which once adorned his bachelor flat before they met. Her husband tried to move the collection to the Design offices where he worked but the images proved quite a distraction to his fellow designers. After much discussion with his wife and quite a bit of persuasion, he agreed to sell them at Bonhams and his wife eagerly arranged it. The collection of works primarily dating from the 1960’s and 1970’s by artists such as Allen Jones, Joe Tilson and Gerald Laing portraying beautiful and glamorous women

By Gerald Laing is a screen print of Brigitte Bardot produced in 1968 and ‘Starlet’ from Baby baby wild thing is estimated at £1,000-1,500. An enamel print on metal signed by the artist, Mel Ramos titled American Beauty (Hubba Hubba) is estimated at £600-800 while a silkscreen ‘a new perspective on floors’ produced in 1966 reveals a pair of women’s legs wearing high heel stilettos (£2,000-3,000).

An untitled screen print by Peter Phillips printed in assorted colours in1974 portrays 42 American beauties set with tongue-in-cheek captions beside them. A lady removing her jumper is captioned as ‘Nobody’s going to pull the wool over my eyes,’ a lady holding a palette is captioned as ‘I must learn to draw the line.’ (£800-1,200) and a lady with her hand tied is captioned as ‘Sorry, I am tied up for tonight.’

Also included in this sale is a collection of photographs, primarily images of Marilyn Monrow by George Barris, Milton H Greene and Edwin Bower Hesser. Interestingly, some of these images portray a natural-looking Marilyn Monroe wearing no make up. Black and white Photographs of Heidi Klum by Mark Seliger (1200-1800) and Jodie Kidd on a horse also feature.

Highlights also include a spray paint work on steel by grafitti artist, Banksy. This work is one of a number of studies produced for the cover of Blur’s Think Tank album. A set of silkscreen prints of Robbie Williams also features, estimated at £2,500-3,500.

Vision 21 also includes works by artists and designers such as: A.Aalto, E.Aarnio, R Arad, Banksy, H. Bertoia, P. Blake, S.Blow, H.Brattrud, M Breuer, M. Brazier-Jones, P. Caulfield, C. Javacheff, J. Colombo, T.Cragg, M Craig-Martin, C and R Eames, T.Emin, P.Fornasetti, N Foster, M Francis, A Goldsworthy, D. Hirst, D. Hockney, D. Linley, G.Hume, A.Jacobsen, A.Jones, F.Juhl, G. Laing, V.Magistretti, S.Mouille, M.Newson, H.Newton, J.Opie, V.Panton, P.Phillips, R.Rauschenberg, Bridget Riley, Mies van der Rohe, J.Royere, E.Ruscha, C.Self, P.Starck, B.Stern.