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LAMA announces the date of the Winter 2019 auction: Sunday, February 17, 2019 The February 2019 auction will be a special auction centered around a collection of Pop Art prints and paintings from Andy Warhol many works of art and design that reflect LAMA's 26-year history. Frederick Hammersley, three important works by Mary Corse, three works by Herbert Bayer, an early sculptural work by Charles Arnoldi, and an The curated auction will be limited to 250 lots, each tying into the origins of LAMA and the Los Angeles-driven art market. Renew your catalogue subscription for the 2019 auction season, and check out LAMA’s archive of past catalogues. Rauschenberg Combine from 1958 an Alexander Calder painting and a collection of William Billy Haines custom designs Each of these highlights came from decades old collections and nearly half of the lots had never traded hands on the open market Other lots included prints and multiples by Lichtenstein Man Ray Ruscha Picas*o Miro and Warhol The auction reached sales of over 1 5 million selling 70 2 by lot and 71 5 by value Robert Rauschenberg s Untitled Combine 1958 Lot 155 est 100 000 150 000 realized 93 750 was originally created for painter and collage artist Ilse Getz Danes a close friend of Rauschenberg Ms Getz Danes husband Gibson A Danes was chairman of the art department at UCLA from 1952 57 and was also a former dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture Combines a term Rauschenberg invented to define his mixed media collages redefine the notion of a collage by granting a different role to commonplace objects Untitled Combine 1958 features oil painting on a Solo coffee cup lid which is mounted on paper within the artist s frame The work was exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in the 1960s and has been in a private collection in Los Angeles since the early 1990s Fresh original works unseen on the market for over a generation attracted a global audience The Calder Bu*terfly and Spiral 1970 Lot 10 est 35 000 45 000