David Walsh, founder of Tasamania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), is auctioning a selection of iconic Young British Artist (YBA) works from the MONA collection to fund a new wing which will house a number of James Turrell works.The works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, and Jenny Saville, will be amongst the highlights of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on June 30, 2015 and will be on view from June 26, 2015 at Christie’s, London. The YBA works from MONA include Chris Ofili’s “The Holy Virgin Mary” (1996), Jake and Dinos Chapman’s “Great Deeds Against the Dead” (1994), Jenny Saville’s “Matrix” (1999), and Damien Hirst’s spin painting “Beautiful mis-shapen purity clashing excitedly outwards painting” (1995).David Walsh said of the upcoming auction: “Selling isn’t easy. I love the things I own. But the proceeds of this auction will help fund an expansion of Mona for a wing to house a number of James Turrell works. They will be light and airy and engaging and, hopefully, provocative. “I made my money gambling. And here, at this auction, I’m gambling again. My gamble isn’t that you will pay enough for these works to justify my selling. My wager is that the future, for me and my museum, is more rewarding than the past.”
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