LOT 1 JEFF KOONS Puppy Vase, 1998 White glazed porcelain vase 17 ½ x 17 ½ x 10 ½ inches Edition of 3000 Auction estimate: $7,500 Gift of Gagosian Gallery Contemporary artist-provocateur Jeff Koons is one of the best known and most accomplished artists of the 20th Century. His recent retrospective at the Chateau de Versailles makes him the only living artist ever to be invited to exhibit at such an illustrious venue. This vase, Puppy, from a series executed in 1998, is a witty re-interpretation of one of Koon's most iconic works, also titled Puppy (1992), an enormous topiary sculpture made of soil, steel and more than 70,000 flowers that has been exhibited worldwide.

LOT 2 FAILE Wooden Box: Angel Art 01, 2008 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on wooden apple box 12in x 20in x 4in Auction estimate: $8,000 Gift of the artists The urban artist collective FAILE are pioneers in the contemporary street art movement; originally stenciling and wheatpasting posters in the streets of cities around the world. Their medium has expanded to painted objects, sculpture and more permanent venues but always with their graphic pop/illustrative aesthetic, a motif of duality, and the collaborative process at the heart of their artwork. In 2006, the collaborative took part in "Spank the Monkey," the first major international exhibition of contemporary urban art at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK. FAILE also recently exhibited at the Tate Modern.

LOT 3 FAILE Wooden Box: Angel Art 02, 2008 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on wooden apple box 12in x 20in x 4in Auction estimate: $8,000 Gift of the artists The urban artist collective FAILE are pioneers in the contemporary street art movement; originally stenciling and wheatpasting posters in the streets of cities around the world. Their medium has expanded to painted objects, sculpture and more permanent venues but always with their graphic pop/illustrative aesthetic, a motif of duality, and the collaborative process at the heart of their artwork. In 2006, the collaborative took part in "Spank the Monkey," the first major international exhibition of contemporary urban art at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK. FAILE also recently exhibited at the Tate Modern.

LOT 4 JULIAN HOEBER Fading Spiral with Holes, 2008 Acrylic paint, acrylic varnish, sumi ink, graphite and gouache on paper 53 x 42 inches Auction estimate: $12,500 Gift of the artist & Blum + Poe Los Angeles Julian Hoeber is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He has exhibited widely in Europe and North America and has participated in exhibitions in Beijing and Tokyo. His work has been covered in publications including Frieze, Flash Art, Art Review, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on art and film at the University of Southern California, Otis College of Art and Design, and The Art Center College of Design. His work is held in private collections throughout the world and in the public collections of MoMA and MoCA.

LOT 5 CHRIS VASELL Untitled, 2007 Acrylic on canvas 26 x 24 inches Auction estimate: $10,000 Gift of the artist & Blum + Poe Los Angeles Chris Vasell explores perception and the nature of abstraction and figuration in painting, and has developed a distinctive technique of staining and layering multiple painterly surfaces onto his canvases. His style stimulates a constant interplay between translucency and density and is echoed in the expressive nature of his work. Vasell's work was included in the Whitney Biennial 2006 and belongs to numerous private and public collections such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MoCA, Chicago; MoMA; and the Guggenheim, New York.

LOT 6 SIMMONS & BURKE You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth #1, 2008 Lightjet print and custom audio software 79 x 54 1/2 inches (framed) Edition 3/5 Gift of the artists and Kim Light/LightBox CUSTOM AUDIO LINK Simmons & Burke's works shimmer with highly faceted collage compositions of appropriated images and sound, celebrating contamination by digital replication, popular culture, and the history of art. The visual and audio components are marked by an intricate collage aesthetic, assembled solely from content carefully collected from internet sources. The artists' user experience of browsing for digital source material heavily forms and informs these works, they relate this process to the chance operations of John Cage. Simmons & Burke had their first solo show, You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, in 2008 at Kim Light/LightBox in Los Angeles.

LOT 7 VERA LUTTER General Motors Building, 745 Fifth Avenue: September 1995 Unique gelatin silver print 51 x 20 inches Auction estimate: $20,000 Gift of the artist & Gagosian Gallery Vera Lutter's work is an exploration of the process of the camera obscura, one of the earliest and most primitive 19th century inventions to record images. Lutter employs room-sized "cameras", which she often inhabits during exposure times that last anywhere from a few hours to several weeks. This apparatus allows the projection of her chosen subject onto photosensitized paper, which is ultimately developed as a unique negative. Her process and resulting unmanipulated prints produce a ghostly temporality that eerily echoes pre-modern photography. Lutter is a Guggenheim Fellow and her photographs are part of several permanent public collections, including MOMA, New York; The Metropolitan Museum, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

LOT 8 JOEL MORRISON 3-dimensional line drawing with a crowbar(#2), 2008 Bronze with black petina 21 x 18 x 15 inches Auction estimate: $15,000 Gift of the artist Image courtesy of Joshua White/JW Pictures Joel Morrison's re-assembly of everyday objects into abstracted cast sculpture manifests his commitment to resolve the divergent questions of concept and form. Loaded with witty references to contemporary culture and the art historical canon, his work redefines the standard interplay between object and idea. Inspired by a casual drawing made in the margin of a book, this "crowbar" is a playful juxtaposition of original intention and artistic purpose. Morrison has been included in several exhibitions, including the Kolbe Museum in Berlin and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. In 2005 he was featured in the critically acclaimed exhibition Thing at the Hammer Museum and in 2006 was selected to participate in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art.

LOT 9 ED RUSCHA Ed Ruscha Commission Acrylic on paper Approximate size 9 x 12 inches Auction estimate: Priceless Opening bid: $15,000 Ed Ruscha will paint your initials.

LOT 10 MARK BRADFORD Cash, 2008 Mixed media collage 20 x 12 x 4 incheS Auction estimate: $18,000 Gift of the artist courtesy of Sikkemma Jenkins & Co. Image courtesy of Joshua White/JW Pictures The urban landscape, especially his own neighborhood, South Central L.A., is Mark Bradford's primary source of artistic material, as well as his subject and inspiration. He is best known best for his large scale paintings/collages covered in singed perm papers collected from his family's beauty salon and scraps of posters from local billboards. Bradford has been featured in several prestigious exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial at which he received the Bucksbaum award.

LOT 11 TARYN SIMON Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo, 2000 Chromogenic color print 60 x 84 inches Edition of 5 Auction estimate: $20,000 Gift of the artist courtesy of Gagosian Gallery Framing courtesy of Art Services Melrose When taking a photograph, Taryn Simon is primarily concerned with the aesthetic and formal qualities of the image. Using a large format camera, Simon waits, often hours, to capture her subjects. Her works tend to have investigative undertones, and viewers first drawn in by her seductive imagery are often then asked to step back and question the context, a process made easier by Simon's inclusion of an explanatory text on the wall next to each photograph. Her work is included in numerous permanent collections, among them the Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

LOT 12 RICHARD MISRACH Golden Gate, 2.21.00 5:32 PM, 2000/2003 Chromogenic color print correction: 30 x 37 inches Edition 5/7 Auction estimate: $12,000 Gift of the artist Courtesy of Marc Selwyn Fine Art Image courtesy of Joshua White/JW Pictures Framing courtesy of Don Francis Framing Richard Misrach is one of the most influential and internationally recognized photographers working today. His work often addresses political, cultural and environmental issues and is many collection including MoMA; LACMA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Getty Museum of art.

LOT 13 PIERO GOLIA Untitled blanket (alaska_adventure-2), 2007 Woven cotton 54x69 inches Auction estimate: $15,000 Gift of the artist and Bartolami Galllery, NY, courtesy of Esthella Provas & Associates Image courtesy of Joshua White/JW Pictures Italian conceptual artist, Piero Golia's work explores the functioning and the mechanisms of the art world, cultivating a great immediacy while unabashedly seeking out the greatest audience. In 2005, Golia vanished in New York, reappearing 3 weeks later at Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Between those two dates, he left absolutely no trace of himself, crossing borders illegally, travelling without any trackable means of payment, thus living the adventurous life of a fugitive. Postcards from the Edge is a series of custom-made woven blankets, depicting landscapes of this mythical journey through America - the only remains of his vanishing experience. Golia, known for extreme gesture and challenging himself to "impossible" feats and legendary action, lectures, performs and is exhibited throughout the Europe and the US.

LOT 14 DENISE DE LA RUE Blue Demon y Ana, 2005 Lightjet print on color gloss paper 66 x 49 inches Edition 2 of 3 Auction estimate: $12,000 Gift of the artist and Esthella Provas & Associates, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery Denise de la Rue's "Luchadores" series captures the comical yet heralded role in Hispanic culture of the Mexican Wrestler or 'luchador.' De la Rue's portraits of real life wrestlers refer to the heroic archetype, yet contemporary standing. By removing the luchadores from the ring, and placing them in an alternative environment - De la Rue examines the clash or reality and unreality inherent in these pop culture icons. De la Rue's work, "Blue Demon y Ana" is at once a glorification of the 'superhero' role of the luchador to Latin culture, and a reflection of the exaggeration and sensationalism in celebrity.

LOT 15 LIZA LOU Comet, 1992 Colored beads on plaster 7 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches Auction estimate: $30,000 Gift of the artist and L&M Arts, Los Angeles Liza Lou combines visionary, conceptual, traditional and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of sculptural experience. Her meticulous beadwork brings a painter's approach to sculpture. She burst onto the contemporary scene in 1996 with an exhibition at the New Museum, New York of Kitchen for which Lou had beaded an entire 168 square foot kitchen; every pie, every muffin, every bit of cereal was covered with beads - the feat took 5 years and 30 million beads. Lou's magnetic work embraces the American visionary tradition and also encompasses Pop Art and Neo-Expressionist figuration. Liza Lou was awarded the MacArthur "genius" fellowship in 2002.

LOT 16 VENICE & ROME...WITH SALMA Auction estimate: priceless Starting bid: $15,000 The 53rd International Venice Biennale, by way of Rome, are the locales for this magnificent experience. First, fly with a guest to one of the greatest founding cities of Western civilization - Rome. You will be welcomed by Pepi Marchetti Franchi, director of Gagosian Rome, for a VIP backroom tour of the new gallery and counseling for your experience of Rome, seat of more than 2,500 years of Western cultural and artistic heritage. Ms. Franchi will also arrange a 1/2 day guided tour of the city and Dinner for two (2) at one of her favorite restaurants. Also enjoy a Private Tour of the new museum under construction in Rome, "Maxxi" National Museum of 21st Century Arts, which was designed by Zaha Hadid, a winner of The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Then, Venice! Start with a VIP tour of François Pinault's awe inspiring, Palazzo Grassi. The palace, last to be erected in Venice before the fall of the Republic, dates from the 1700s. In 2005, Japanese architect, Tadao Ando was commissioned to refurbish the building as an exhibition space and home to part of Pinault's highly respected modern and contemporary art collection. The Venice Biennale, will take place June 7 –November 22 2009. Since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organizing international events in the contemporary arts. This year, Los Angeles son, John Baldessari, and Yoko Ono will receive Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement and Bruce Nauman will represent the United States. VIP guided tours of Biennale exhibition venues such as the Giardini and the Arsenale will be arranged on your behalf. After a day of art and the canals, enjoy an evening with a star: actress, philanthropist and Project Angel Food volunteer, Salma Hayek, and friends, will host you for dinner. This private gathering is sure to be an unparalled experience. Trip includes business-class, roundtrip airfare for two (2) to Rome on American Airlines. Trip components are subject to schedules of partipants & donors; a Project Angel Food staff member will coordinate dates of travel with you. Valid through May 1, 2010.

LOT 17 JORGE PARDO Private chandelier commission Auction estimate: $12,000 Gift of the artist Jorge Pardo is known as a pioneer in the subtle fusion of aesthetics and utility in his work. He has edefined the notion of sculpture by offering a new perspective on representation, to the place and role of the artwork, its frame, its borders, its relation to its site, and its intersection with architecture and design. Examples include the German Bundestag (Parliament) building restaurant, the DIA Center Library, and the Pre-Columbian galleries at LACMA. Pardo is currently working on numerous major commissions around the world and his work has been featured in The Museum Boijmarts Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; MoMA; MoCA; LACMA; and the Guggenheim. The winning bidder receives a commission of (1) chandelier, of mutually agreed upon design, with the artist specific to your site & desire.

LOT 18 JEFF KOONS Monkey Train (Birds), 2007 Silkscreen with archival pigmented inkjet 32 7/8 x 26 1/8 inches Edition of 40 Auction estimate: $50,000 Gift of the artist

LOT 19 GREGORY CREWDSON Suite of 3 production stills Untitled (Oak Street #2), Summer 2006 22x 17 inches Untitled (Edie in the Trailer #5), Summer 2007 17 x 22 inches Untitled (Trailer Park #4), Summer 2007 22 x 17 inches Archival pigment prints Edition of 20 Auction estimate: $15,000 Gift of the artist and Gagosian Gallery Framing courtesy of Art Services Melrose In these pointedly theatrical yet intensely real panoramic images, Crewdson explores the recesses of the American psyche and the disturbing dramas at play within quotidian environments. Here, a suite of his production stills from Beneath the Roses, which was produced in four seasonal cycles from 2006-2007, Crewdson relays his perception of provincial American life. Crewdson, featured in an extensive European tour, is a faculty member of the Department of Photography at Yale University where he received an MFA.

LOT 20 HERNAN BAS Singing after the rain, 2008 Graphite, charcoal and acrylic on paper 12 x 9 inches 16 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches framed Auction estimate: $13,000 Gift of the artist & Sandroni Rey

LOT 21 CATHERINE OPIE John, 2007 Chromogenic color print 29 1/2 x 22 inches Edition 1/5 Auction estimate: $15,000 Gift of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Opie's desire to catalogue and archive the people and the places around her has resulted in compelling photographs of people and communities from the architecture that surrounds and influences these communities to portraits of community members themselves - including surfers, the LGBT community and most recently, high school football players. Opie is a Professor of Fine Art at UCLA. The Guggenheim recemtly mounted a mid-career survey of her work, Catherine Opie: American Photographer which exhibited mid 2008 through January of this year.

LOT 22 TOM FRIEDMAN Untitled, 2008 Cprint 21 x 16 inches Edition of 3 Auction estimate: $25,000 Gift of the artist Framing courtesy of Art Services Melrose Tom Friedman employs a wide variety of mediums and aesthetics in his works, a process that facilitates his purpose to induce in the audience a jolt of shock at the uncanny associations made between material and pop culture. Though he is often linked to the 1960s Conceptualism and Minimal art movements, Friedman ultimately defies categorization. He invents his own visual language through an obsessive attention to detail and an ability to transform the familiar into the humorously unexpected. In the image here, Friedman has reproduced his self-portrait 21,000 times in a witty homage to the Benday dots of 1950's & 60's comic books that became the hallmark of Roy Lichtenstein. Friedman has exhibited extensively in major museums throughout the world, including MOMA, New York, the Fundazione Prada, Milan, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

LOT 23 DAMIEN HIRST Spin Harley, 2008 Household gloss Harley-Davidson® Cross Bones™ Unique Auction estimate: priceless Starting Bid: $25,000 Angel Art presents a one-of-a-kind collaboration with Damien Hirst and Harley-Davidson® Motor Company. Using multiple vibrant hues, Hirst applied his Spin-painting technique, which employs centrifugal force as paint is poured, to individual parts of an old-school style, fully functional Cross Bones™ motorcycle donated by Harley-Davidson®. The visually dynamic parts were then reassembled as a unique object. Two Spin-painted Harley-Davidson® helmets included.

LOT 24 HOUSTON, MARFA & MENIL ...WITH BECCA AND MICHAEL Discover some of the most unique & significant sites and collections in Modern and contemporary art between the US coasts. Acclaimed director of LACMA, Michael Govan, and dazzling cultural luminary, Becca Cason Thrash, will personally guide your experience. First, travel by private jet with Govan to Houston where you will experience its rich artistic history and active contemporary scene. Guided by Govan, you will start with a tour of The Menil Collection consisting of nearly 15,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books dating from the Paleolithic era to the present day. The collection, donated by French-American collectors John and Dominique de Menil, is considered one of the most significant privatelyassembled art collections in the 20th century and was built over a period of 40 years. You will continue with Govan to view the expanded collection including the Cy Twombly gallery designed by Renzo Piano and the Rothko Chapel. Your tour will include private guided access to the Menil archives to see the Charles James collection, which is not open to the public, lunch organized by the director of the Menil Foundation, and a private tour of the former home of Dominique de Menil, designed by Phillip Johnson, also not open to the public. On day 2, board your private jet again with Govan for a day trip to Marfa,Texas - home of the Chinati Foundation, an alternative museum space founded by Donald Judd with the assistance of the Dia Art Foundation and conceived to preserve and present permanent large-scale installations by a limited number of artists. Dine with the foundations director, Marianne Stockebrand, and view the permanent installations on this 340 acre art site; home to 15 outdoor concrete works, and 100 of aluminum works by Judd housed in two converted artillery sheds; 25 sculptures by John Chamberlain; an installation by Dan Flavin occupying six former army barracks; and works by Carl Andre, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Rabinowitch, and John Wesley. Each artist's work is installed in a separate building on the museum's grounds. While in Houston you will be welcomed into the 20,000 square foot glass-walled home of Becca Cason Thrash for a dinner party. Also enjoy your experience of Houston as counseled and conducted by Thrash, who is on the board of the International Friends of the Louvre, the Houston Grand Opera, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Houston Ballet and will arrange tickets to one or more of these venues. At the end of each of your (3) nights, luxuriate in the Four Seasons, Houston which resonates with the cosmopolitan elegance and refined Southern charm that characterize Houston. LUXE limousine will provide transportation to and from the airport in Los Angeles and transportation will be provided while in Houston. Auction estimate: Priceless Opening bid: $15,000

LOT 25 FRANCESCO VEZZOLI Death in Venice, CA, 2008 Inkjet on canvas, paper, metallic embroidery in artist's frame 94 x 70 cm Gift of the artist

LOT 26 TRACEY EMIN Sex 18 25-11-07 Sydney, 2007 Watercolor 8.27 x 11.69 inches Auction estimate: $18,000 Gift of the artist Framing courtesy of Art Services Melrose With haunting candor and a uniquely feminine perspective, Tracey Emin sifts through personal experience to offer poignant expressions of longing, love, and desire. Using a wide variety of media, including needlework, drawing, painting, neon, photography and video, Emin subverts traditional norms of decorum to disclose universal emotions with compelling sincerity. In this watercolor, her use of expressionistic lines suggest the harrowing vulnerability often felt during the exposure of intimacy. Tracey Emin has had solo and group exhibitions in Holland, Germany, Japan, Australia, America, and Great Britian. In 2007, she represented Great Britian at the 52nd Venice Biennale, only the second woman ever chosen to do so, and was also made a Royal Academician in London.

LOT 27 ROBERT THERRIEN No Title, 1997 Silkscreen and tempera on paper 23 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches Auction estimate: $12,000 Gift of the artist Image courtesy of Joshua White/JW Pictures Framing courtesy of Art Services Melrose Robert Therrien's work has been the subject of several major solo exhibitions and appears in numerous public collections worldwide, including The Broad Art Foundation, The Getty ,LACMA, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, MoCA, MoMA, Tate, and the Whitney Museum.Most recently his work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. A major drawing survey was presented at the Kunstmuseum Basel in the summer of 2008.

LOT 28 DAMIAN ORTEGA Mortal Terrain, 2007 Analogue chromatic handprint, diptych 30.55 x 36.46 x 1.77 inches each Edition 5 of 5 + 2 AP Gift of Kurimanzutto

LOT 29 ED RUSCHA Tortilla Flat, 2008 Dry pigment on museum board paper 12 3/16 x 9 1/4 inches Auction estimate: $55,000 Gift of the artist Ed Ruscha's work holds a mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confront us daily. His early career as a graphic atist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematii approach. Ruscha represented the United States in the Venice Biennale in 2005 and 1970, and has been the subject of numerous international museum retrospectives. A major retrospective of his work will open at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2009. First right of refusal to artist and Gagosian Gallery required.

LOT 30 David Yurman Mosaic Cuff Auction estimate: $10,900 Gift of David & Sybil Yurman Rich in color and texture, the David Yurman 18K yellow gold Mosaic Cuff features unique cushion and oval-shaped gems such as Rhodalite Garnet, Amethyst, Pink Tourmaline, Blue Sapphires, Garnet and Diamonds. The stones, both faceted and cabochon, combine with the iconic, hand-crafted cable in a stunning yellow gold to create a bold statement piece, exclusively David Yurman.