NEW YORK, NY.- In Situ, a selection of works by contemporary art stars is currently live for bidding on artnet Auctions through August 12. In art, in situ refers to a work of art made specifically for a host site, or that a work of art takes into account the site in which it is installed or exhibited. In Situ includes must-have works by Marilyn Minter, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Barnett Newman, Robert Graham, and more, each with accompanying installation shots that can inspire and help one envision these dynamic works displayed on their own walls.

Highlights

Damien Hirst (British, b. 1965), Your Touch (from The Wonder of You), 2015. Estimate: 10,000—12,000 USD
Damien Hirst is one of the most famous living British artists. The most influential member of a school of artists originating from Goldsmiths, University of London in the 1980s, Hirst has become a household name. His work focuses on the fundamental elements of life, including death and love, which he expresses in controversial sculptures, installations, and paintings. In The Wonder of You, Hirst employs one of his newer signature motifs: butterflies. the butterflies are rendered in a way that they seem to be fluttering across the piece. The butterfly has wide significance as a symbol of love, regeneration, fortune, freedom, spirituality, and death.

Marilyn Minter (American, b. 1948), AARRGH! #2, 1993. Estimate: 5,000—7,000 USD
Artist Marilyn Minter (American, b. 1948) is famous for her glamorous, hyper-realistic photos of lipstick-laden lips and painted eyelids. Her oftentimes hyper-sexual and erotic works raise questions about and critique standards and definitions of glamour and beauty in today's society. In this early work done by the artist in 1993, playfully titled AARRGH! #2, Minter features an extreme close-up of a gaping mouth with paint dripping from the lips and teeth. The provocative nature of her art is featured prominently in this image.

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969), Pastoral, 1998. Estimate: 20,000—25,000 USD
Kara Walker’s aggressively confrontational art mounts an assault both on historical white-washing and on the viewers themselves. Directly addressing the atrocities committed in America under slavery, Walker presents vignettes of violence and inhumanity. Pastoral depicts the silhouette of a young woman with what seems to be a slaughtered sheep thrown over her shoulder.

Peter Halley (American, b. 1953), Vertical Limit, 2000. Estimate: 60,000—80,000 USD
Vertical Limit by Peter Halley (American, b. 1953) is an extraordinary, large-scale panting rendered in the artist’s signature geometric abstract style. Halley has developed a unique visual language over the years, which he refers to as “cells” and “prisons." A bold and rigid work anchored in silver, with vibrant color blocks of green, pink, orange, blue and gold, Vertical Limit is a statement in the artist’s career-long dialogue on the intense compartmentalization of space in the urban environment.