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17 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich Christo Christo’s finely crafted drawings served to visualise planned installations and, as self-sufficient works of art, helped to finance the costly projects that he and his wife Jeanne-Claude produced without outside funding. Wrapped Trees, Project for the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland. 1997. Mixed media on wove paper on panel. 66.7 × 77.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 35 000/45 000 Bruno Weber Throughout his life, the Swiss painter and sculptor remained a unique phenomenon; his wide-ranging artistic oeuvre defies categorisation. The ‘people’s artist’ became nationally and internationally known for his idiosyncratic 20,000-square-metre sculpture and water garden in Weinrebenpark near Zurich. Weber’s stylistic models are to be found all over the world; ancient Indian sculpture had a major influence on his formal language, as in the biomorphic allusions in this three-part suite of furniture. Suite of two chairs & side table: ‘Four-faced functional sculptures’, design circa 1970. Polyester, cast and black-lacquered. Estimate: CHF 9 000/12 000 Roy Lichtenstein In this composition, Lichtenstein reduces his own canon of forms and colours to an absolute minimum, which remains instantly recognisable despite the image’s considerable abstraction. Although the actual subject of the picture is no longer discernible, the artist succeeds in alluding to a larger pictorial context. The chosen scheme of colour fields and lines seems like an excerpt from a larger work and thus stands pars pro toto for the artist’s oeuvre as a whole, leaving open the question of whether he is seriously or ironically pro- voking art-historical references ‒ to Piet Mondrian’s Constructivist painting, for example. Untitled. 1979. Oil on canvas. 31.5 × 42.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 80 000/120 000 Serge Poliakoff The Russian-born Frenchman’s oeuvre was closely associated with the Paris School and post-war abs- tract movements in Europe. Poliakoff’s paintings harmoniously arrange interlocking planes of colour. A profound and lasting influence on Poliakoff’s un- derstanding of colour was the art of his friends Was- sily Kandinsky, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and Otto Freundlich, whom he met in the 1930s. Composition abstraite. 1962. Oil on canvas. 41 × 33 cm. Estimate: CHF 50 000/80 000 Roy Lichtenstein Lichtenstein chose the Statue of Liberty as a patriotic advertising motif for the political celebration ‘I Love Liberty’, which took place in Los Angeles in 1982. I Love Liberty. 1982. Colour screenprint. 196/250. 97.3 × 68.7 cm. Estimate: CHF 25 000/35 000 Pablo Picasso In the ten years that Françoise Gilot lived at Picasso’s side, the artist created countless portraits of her. The striking eyelashes are a signature feature of these representa- tions. Françoise. 1946. Lithograph. 4/50. 65 × 49.5 cm. Estimate: CHF 50 000/70 000 © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich