9th September (Bloomberg) - Sixty contemporary artworks from the collection of computer software developer Peter Norton are heading to the auction block at Christie's in New York this fall.

The group, which includes the works of Matthew Barney, Takashi Murakami, Paul McCarthy, is expected to bring in more than $ 25 million at the auction house at night and during the day contemporary-art sales in November 8 to 9

org/1999/xhtml "> Norton interest in three-dimensional art is McCarthy's 7-foot-tall" Tomato Head (Green). "Robert Gober's 1992" Prison Window "has a two-foot-square hole in the wall with iron bars, a blue sky in the background.

There is a sprawling 1996 Kara Walker frieze "African't" with 25-cut-paper silhouettes, and Murakami was cheerful mushroom sculptural ensemble, "Born in a strange noise," since 1999.

“For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of.

Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building.

But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality.

So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition.

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