LONDON.- Christie’s will offer a selection of works from a private Italian collection of international contemporary art. Demonstrating the open-mindedness and astute taste of its collectors, Next Chapter presents works of art by 123 artists at various price points and will be offered across their Post-War and Contemporary March sales, from Online and First Open to the Evening and Day Auctions. The collection reflects the idea that while one period of collecting is ending, another is beginning. In this sense, the collectors are leaving behind an outstanding survey of the last twenty years of art history in order to pursue the coming generations of artists and their art.

This carefully curated collection features a remarkably wide-ranging selection of works, highlights of which include works by Yoshitomo Nara, Wade Guyton, Elisabeth Peyton, Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman, Marlene Dumas and George Condo. The collection also includes a selection of Düsseldorf photography legends Thomas Ruff, Thomas Strüth and Thomas Demand. A diverse grouping of sculpture ranges from Urs Fischer and Rudolf Stingel to Damián Ortega and Sarah Lucas, who is just one of a strong array of female artists in the collection that also includes Dana Schutz, Sherman, Roni Horn, Elizabeth Peyton, Marlene Dumas, Yayoi Kusama and Nan Goldin. The trailblazing African-American artists Kara Walker and Julie Mehretu are also represented, while Kusama brings a Japanese perspective alongside her male compatriots Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara, whose large-scale 2003 work No Way! is a highlight of the whole collection.

The diversity of the collection is testament to the taste of the collectors, which is both a passion project and a very personal collection of works. The depth and breadth of this collection also serves as a powerful statement on the art of the last twenty years: it reflects a profoundly heterogeneous art landscape that is grappling with the explosion of possibilities inherited from the artistic revolutions of the twentieth century, while at the same time responding to the glut of images enabled by a world that is ever more globalised and technologically interconnected. Characterised by innovation and inventiveness, and imbued with a spirit of dynamic, responsive connoisseurship excited by the cutting-edge, Next Chapter is a collection befitting its time.