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Phillips has unveiled highlights of its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening & Afternoon Sale, taking place on 26 June in London. The sale is led by David Hockney’s The Only One with Waves, a work from a pivotal moment in the artist’s career, and brings together British art including works by Bridget Riley, Frank Auerbach and Tracey Emin. Further highlights include a group of South Asian artists, offered in response to growing international recognition, alongside contemporary voices such as Andrew Cranston, Anna Weyant, Julie Mehretu and Jadé Fadojutimi. The preview exhibition opens at Phillips’ Berkeley Square on 19 June and runs until the auction on 26 June at 2pm BST.
Leading the sale is Hockney’s The Only One with Waves, estimated at £1,800,000 to £2,500,000. Painted in 1991, shortly after the artist acquired his home in Malibu, the work revisits his celebrated motif of water while anticipating the Very New Paintings series he began the following year. Bridget Riley’s Measure for Measure 40 (2019) carries an estimate of £500,000 to £700,000 and is closely related to Messengers, her wall installation at the National Gallery in London. The sale opens with Andrew Cranston’s Meditation in a tenement (2023), estimated at £60,000 to £80,000, while Tracey Emin’s I hated you, I hated you, I hated you (2019), exhibited at the Musée d’ Orsay as part of the artist’s first exhibition at a major French institution, is estimated at £150,000 to £200,000.
The sale includes major works by leading contemporary artists. El Anatsui’s Delta (2014), estimated at £700,000 to £900,000, exemplifies his transformation of discarded materials into monumental sculptural forms, its cascading surface of aluminium bottle caps drawing on West African visual traditions. Donald Judd’s Untitled (1991), estimated at £300,000 to £500,000, reflects the precision and clarity that defined his contribution to Minimalism. Also featured, from the Collection of Marcel Brient in Paris, is Marlene Dumas’ Blue Cross (1993 to 95).
A strong group of South Asian artists features prominently, among them Maqbool Fida Husain’s Untitled (1974), estimated at £150,000 to £250,000, and Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar’s Elephant Parade at Night (circa 1946), estimated at £100,000 to £150,000. Having achieved a world auction record for Lancelot Ribeiro in March 2026, when Landscape at Noon sold for £516,000, Phillips will offer another example of the artist’s work, Landscape (circa 1965), estimated at £25,000 to £35,000.
The sale also brings together a group of women working in abstraction. Yayoi Kusama’s INFINITY-NETS (MAE) (2013) is estimated at £800,000 to £1,200,000, while Jadé Fadojutimi’s O! The Climate Has A Temper Today (2024) carries an estimate of £300,000 to £500,000. Further highlights include Martha Jungwirth’s Untitled (2017), estimated at £200,000 to £300,000, Katharina Grosse’s O.T. (2013), estimated at £120,000 to £180,000, and Julie Mehretu’s Not Quite Armageddon (1997), also estimated at £120,000 to £180,000.
The Modern & Contemporary Art Evening & Afternoon Sale takes place on 26 June 2026 at 2pm BST at 30 Berkeley Square, London, with viewing from 19 to 26 June.
(Press Release)
