The sculpture depicting Trump in the flesh titled "The Emperor Has No Balls".
It was made as part of a series of controversial and explicit statues appeared in public spaces in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland and Los Angeles weeks before the then presidential nominee was elected. The piece is estimated to sell between $20,000-$30,000.
Amazingly, the Trump piece was the last statue remaining not vandalized or destroyed.
It will be put under the hammer as part of Julien’s Auctions, the world record-breaking auction house, spring edition of its biannual Street and Urban Art auction which will take place May 2, 2018.
It will take place live at the first ever Street and Urban Art auction at Mana Contemporary in collaboration with Mana Contemporary Urban Art Projects one of the largest and most innovative contemporary art organizations in the United States and Juxtapoz Art and Cultural Magazine, www.juxtapoz.com and also live online on juliensauctions.com.
Apart from the Trump piece, the collection will include an extraordinary and diverse canvas of works by some of the most influential and iconoclastic street artists of our time including Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Invader, Andy Warhol, Paul McCarthy, KAWS, AIIROH and more. The exhibition will take place in the newly launched Juxtapoz Bookstore and Galley at Mana Contemporary.
Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and website was created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III (a.k.a. Craig Stecyk), Greg Escalante, and Eric Swenson to both help define and celebrate urban alternative and underground contemporary art.
Juxtapoz is published by High Speed Productions, the same company that publishes Thrasher skateboard magazine in San Francisco, California.
Graffiti artist/pop culture provocateur RETNA’s painted 2000 Ford Econoline van will drive onto the auction block as one of the most highly anticipated street art items offered this season and has been dismantled into panels, doors and bumpers (various estimates starting at $7,000) allowing multiple collectors an opportunity to collect.
The van was spray painted by the artist at an LA art gallery party. Born Marquis Lewis, the LA artist’s distinctive constructed script as well as his traditional street art graffiti work has been exhibited in renowned institutions and galleries in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Hong Kong and more.
RETNA has been commissioned by global brands Louis Vuitton, Vistajet.com and Nike for advertising and commercial work and in 2015, he designed a Buddhist, Christian and Hindu themed art cover of Justin Bieber’s album "Purpose" which depicted both hands of the pop superstar joined vertically.
Other highlights of this auction include British street art provocateur Banksy’s "Graffiti Rat," his famous recurring rat character spray painted aerosol and acrylic on an aluminum street sign (estimate: $40,000-$60,000) (photo: top right); four of French street art enfant terrible Invader’s signature ceramic tile mosaic artwork, R2D2 (2013) (estimate: $60,000-$80,000)
CCTV street art (estimate: $40,000-$60,000) and PA-549, created in Paris on Rue des Vinaigriers (estimate: $10,000-$15,000) and PA-440 (2001), executed in Paris on the Quai d’Austerlitz on the façade of an 18th century building that was later destroyed (estimate: $8,000-$10,000).
There's also Paul McCarthy’s "Self Portrait as Santa" (estimate: $20,000-$30,000); Jean Michel Basquiat’s "The Offs: {First Record}" (1984), a black vinyl record and outer sleeve (CD025) with cover design created by the iconic street artist (estimate: $1,000-$1,500).
There's also Keith Haring’s "Dancing Man with Radiant Heart," a white acrylic on a New York City subway sign from the Freeman Street station in the Bronx (estimate: $10,000-$15,000) (photo: left).
And Richard Pettibone’s acrylic and silkscreen on canvas "Andy Warhol Mao" (1975) (estimate: $12,000-$15,000).
Andy Warhol’s "Marilyn Monroe" (1981) an inkjet on paper of the Hollywood screen goddess signed by Warhol in black marker lower right (estimate: $5,000-$7,000) and more.
Registering is required to bid in this live auction and can be done in person at the exhibition and auction, or online before the sale at the JuliensAuctions.com Registration page to bid by phone, proxy or in person, or online at JuliensLive.com to bid live online, or by calling (310) 836-1818.