Extinction
The Extinction Collection 2024-25
Contributors, artwork details and price guides
Richard Deacon
Long in the Tooth 2023 (Toothmarks)
Sold as 4 lots. 4 x granite pedestals 27 x 27 x 41-46 cm. 4 x teeth: 1 x southern mammoth, 2 x steppe mammoth, 1 x straight-tusked elephant. Each tooth is mounted on partially fossilised wood from an ancient flooded forest. Each of the four components c 60 kg.
Estimate: £5,000-8,000 per lot
Emily Young
The Connection – A Meeting of Minds 2023
The work is 57 cm high, including the hand axe, and the plinth is 130 cm high. The plinth base is 50 cm x 50 cm. The plinth is a rusted, oiled steel plinth with a stainless-steel fixing. The hand axe dates to at least 600,000 years ago and was made by Homo heidelbergensis. The work weighs approx. 28 kg and the plinth 76 kg.
Estimate: £65,000 - £75,000Peter Randall-Page
Reflections on Loss: You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone 2023
Each of the two components is c. 25 x 20 x 20 cm. 1 x Heel bone of a Steppe mammoth. 1 x 3-D printed reverse cast of the fossil, cast in bronze and gilded dazzling gold. Displayed side by side, touching.
Estimate: £3,000 – 5,000Conrad Shawcross
Work based on “Beyond The Beginning” featuring two flint tools from Happisburgh beach created by early man some 600,000 years apart.
Estimate: £25,000 - £30,000Julian Stair
Ossuary containing the fossilised bones of creatures made extinct through climate change – Mammoth, bear and rhino. The clay it is made from is from glacial silts from Happisburgh beach.
Estimate: £ 3,000 – 5,000Eleanor Lakelin
A wooden vessel carved and turned from ancient wood from Happisburgh beach.
Estimate: £ 3,000 – 5,000David Nash
Forgotten Forest 1 2024
Three pine cones represent the lost forest they came from, flooded by historic climate change 850,000 years ago.
Estimate: £ 3,000 – 5,000Andy Goldsworthy
Three River Works 2023.
Two videos featuring ancient flint tools from Happisburgh, using them to create red powder from local sandstone to give off a red dye.
Photograph. Edition 1 of 5
Estimate: £ 3,000 – 5,000Michael Pinsky
Abyss 2024
Video work. Fragments of Mammoth teeth from Happisburgh are dropped into the crater created by US Nuclear Bomb testing at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Photograph. 1 of 5.
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500Jon Foreman
Cliff Fall 2023
Land art on Happisburgh beach, created from the fallen sediments from the cliffs.
Photograph. Edition 1 of 5
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
Land Art installation made from Pembrokeshire sandstone. 2 metres diameter.
Estimate: £ 7,500 - £10,000Sebastião Salgado
Brooks Range, Alaska, USA
Argentic photography, 50 x 60cm signed print
Estimate: £10,000 - £12,000Richard Mosse
Santarem Log Barges.
Photograph. 63 1⁄2 x 28 inches
Estimate: £20,000 – 25,000Daniel Beltra
Meltdown.
Photograph. 40 x 60 inches.
Estimate: £12,000 - £15,000Michael Kenna
Huangshan Mountains, Study 31 (Anhui, China)
Silver halide print. 19.5cm by 19.5cm. Edition 5 of 45.
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000Beverly Joubert
Water Lord.
Photograph. 20 x 32.3 inches. Edition 1 of 10
Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Hand annotated and signed map of his Antarctic exploration.
Estimate: £ 1,500 - £2,000Col John Blashford-Snell
Hand annotated and signed map of his Central American exploration.
Estimate: £500 - £1,000Nick Park
Chin Strap Penguins 2023 11 x 16 inches. Watercolour.
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000Axel Scheffler
Woolly Mammoth 2023 11.5 x 16.5 inches. Pen, watercolour and coloured pencil.
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
