Phillips’s upcoming modern and contemporary art evening sale in New York will feature a painting of a Californian home by David Hockney. The work is estimated to fetch a price of $12 million–$18 million. The painting is one of the top lots to be offered in the sale. The sale is scheduled to take place on June 23 at the auction house’s new Park Avenue headquarters.
The painting titled A Neat Lawn is a part of Hockney’s “California dreaming” series. The work depicts a manicured green lawn in front of a concrete residential building, with a sprinkler system spraying water on the grass.
“A Neat Lawn is one of the most significant examples of Hockney’s ‘California Dreaming’ paintings, long considered among his greatest achievements,” Phillips’s deputy chairman and co-head of 20th century and contemporary art, Robert Manley said in a statement. The work was last auctioned at Christie’s in 2006 for $3.6 million which set a record for the artist at that time.
The Hockney will hit the block at Phillips alongside Wayne Thiebaud’s painting Winding River (2002), which is expected to fetch $6 million, and Matthew Wong’s landscape Field in a Dream (2014–17), which is expected to fetch $1.5 million.