CHRISTIE'S ANNOUNCED THE SALE OF ARTWORKS FROM THE PROPERTY OF THE COLLECTION OF DENNIS HOPPER DURING ITS POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY SALES IN NOW YORK ON 10-11.NOVEMBER. THE LATE HOPPER, WHO FUSED FILM WITH FINE ART THROUGHOUT HIS INFLUENTIAL 60 YEAR CAREER, CULLED A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART; INCLUDING PRIZED WORKS BY ANDY WARHOL AND JEAN-MICHAEL BASQUIAT. THE COLLECTION IS EXPECTED TO REALIZE OVER $10 MILLION. UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF JAMES DEAN, WHO HE ACTED ALONGSIDE IN REBEL WITH OUT A CAUSE IN 1955, HOPPER TOOK AN INTEREST IN THE ARTS EARLY ON, FROM PHOTOGRAPHY TO PAINTING, ASSEMBLAGE AND SCULPTURE. WITH DEAN'S ENCOURAGEMENT, UNDERSCORED BY VIGOR FOR ALL ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT, HOPPER PURSUED HIS OWN ART AS WELL AS C0LLECTED THE WORKS OF THEN-FLEDGLING ARTISTS SUCH AS WARHOL, BASQUIAT, CLAES OLDENBURG, JULIAN SCHNABEL AND RICHARD PRINCE. HE COUNTED MANY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AS FRIENDS AND CREATIVE PEERS. HOPPER'S SEMINAL EASY RIDER, THE 1969 FILM ABOUT TWO COUNTERCULTURE BIKERS THAT TRAVEL CROSS COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA, WHICH HE WROTE STARRED IN AND DIRECTED ALONGSIDE PETER FONDA AND A YOUNG JACK NICHOLSON, EARNED HIM RESPECT IN BOTH ACTING AND ARTISTIC CIRCLES. HE WENT ON TO ACT IN SEVERAL PARADIGM-SHIFTING FILMS, SUCH AS BLUE VELVET OPPOSITE ISABELLA ROSSELLINI AND APOCALYPSE NOW, OPPOSITE MARLON BRANDO. HOPPER WAS ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE POP ART MOVEMENT, AND WAS NOTED FOR BUYING WARHOL'S FIRST CAMPBELL SOUP CAN FOR $75, AT THE ARTIST'S FIRST SHOW IN LOS ANGELES. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COLLECTION INCLUDE BASQUIAT'S UNTITLED 1987, EXECUTED IN ACRYLIC, OIL STICK AND GRAPHITE, WHICH IS ESTIMATED AT $500,00 TO $700,000, AS WELL AS WARHOL'S PORTRAIT OF HOPPER, 1971 IN SYNTHETIC POLYMER AND SILKSCREEN INK, WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF $800,000 TO $1,200,000. CHRISTIE'S WILL HOST A SALE OF PRINTS, SMALLER WORKS AND OTHER MEMORABILIA FROM THE COLLECTION, IN JANUARY 2011 DURING CHRISTIE'S INTERIORS SALE.
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