NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips presents the upcoming New Now Evening & Day Sales, which will take place on Monday, 29 February 2016, with the Day Sale at 11:00am, followed by the Evening Sale at 6:00pm, providing an exciting start to Armory Arts Week in New York City. This will be the third New Now sale, which juxtaposes works from a younger generation of artists with works by established artists, offering a diverse range to engage seasoned collectors and newcomers alike. These upcoming sales include works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshimoto Nara, and Elizabeth Peyton. In keeping with the sale’s tradition of highlighting young, exciting artists, the sale will also include a work by Sascha Braunig, a painter who will be making her auction debut.

Household Dog is one of Yoshitomo Nara’s large-scale sculptures, an example of the Japanese artist’s most pervasive motifs: the pet dog. These cartoon-like renditions of two puppies encapsulate a deeply held set of emotions that spans childhood memory, spirituality and loneliness, inviting the viewer to question perceived boundaries between the established ideas of childhood and adulthood in a visually stunning fashion.

Seth Price’s Untitled (Pearlescent White Jacket) is part of his well-known series of vacuum-formed wall reliefs, which present domestic items as objects to be dissected and unpacked. This particular work is an amazing example from the Vintage Bomber series, serving as an iconic embodiment of the artist’s ideological practice, representing his most sought after work.

Among the highlights of the sales is Alex Israel’s large-scale Untitled (Flat). From 2010, this particular lot is one of Israel’s earliest and most successful Flats. The sale of this work will take place on the heels of the artist’s highly anticipated opening at Gagosian’s Beverly Hills space, which will feature new collaborative works made in conjunction with the famous Gen X author Bret Easton Ellis.

Elizabeth Peyton’s painting Star, Elliott depicts Oscar-nominated songwriter Elliott Smith who suffered an untimely death after a short life of success. This intimately-scaled work is a stunning example of Peyton’s iconic style of portraiture. The work’s inclusion in the sale comes at a particularly exciting moment for the artist with a concurrent exhibit at Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Part of the highly-regarded conceptual artist’s most ambitious project to date, Danh Vo’s We the people (detail) is one of around 400 unique detail objects cast from an exact replica of the leviathan Statue of Liberty. Both subtle and monumental, this lot represents a symbol of both New York City and also of Western democracy in an elegant and undulating patchwork of copper.

An enveloping oceanic panorama, Red Sea, is one of Sugimoto’s most ghostly compositions from his Seascapes series. This work comes to auction at the same time as the artist’s current show at Pace Gallery in New York, Sea of Buddha. Acclaimed as both a photographer and a conceptual artist, Sugimoto removes any allusion to human presence or earthly relevance in this beautiful black and white image.

The first of Sascha Braunig’s works to appear at auction, Edith, 2013 is a fantastic example of the futuristic portraits that earned the artist a great deal of acclaim at the 2015 New Museum Triennale in New York.