Heritage Auctions and Bloomingdale’s Launch Groundbreaking Urban Art Exhibit in New York

March 1 – 14 new display on flagship store's 4^th floor highlights important March 18 art auction

DALLAS, Texas (February 28, 2019) — Heritage Auctions, the largest auction house founded in America, and Bloomingdale's, the iconic American department store, announce a groundbreaking collaboration in the Urban Art movement, March 1– 14, at the famed retailer's flagship store in New York.

The partnership features a tightly curated, yet comprehensive presentation of more than 40 pieces ahead of the house's important March 18 auction of Urban Art. In addition to the objects on display, the auction itself offers rare and important artwork across all mediums by artists including Invader, Shepard Fairey, Banksy and RETNA, a painting which may break the artist's auction record set by Heritage in December.

Art and objects in the auction will go on display in glass vitrines throughout the 4th floor of Bloomingdale's New York. Most all pieces represent objects by important contemporary artists, such as KAWS, BE@RBRICK and Supreme, and the cutting-edge counterculture collaborations they have established with brands and artists such as Cindy Sherman, Chanel, Robert Longo. The preview also demonstrates new trends in skate decks by exhibiting Alien Workshop collaboration with Keith Harring and Andy Warhol Foundations.

"Bloomingdale's unique visual presentation and Heritage's growth in the Urban Art movement breaks convention to speak to the sophistication of the luxury designer customer and collector," said Leon Benrimon, Director of Modern & Contemporary Art at Heritage Auctions.

Visitors have the rare opportunity to experience Heritage's auction of the genre's most sought-after works, such as Coco Chanel 1000% by BE@RBRICK, Untitled, from Men in the Cities, an offset lithograph on skate deck from the 2011 collaboration between luxury fashion brand Supreme and artist Robert Longo and No Future Companion (Black Chrome), 2008, by the artist KAWS.

An extended preview of additional auction lots will be on display March 1 – 12 at Heritage Auctions New York, 445 Park Ave. (at 57th Street).

About Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions is the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the United States, and the world's largest collectibles auctioneer. Heritage maintains offices in New York, Dallas, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Chicago, Palm Beach, London, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

The Internet's most popular auction-house website, HA.com, has over one million registered bidder-members and searchable free archives of four million past auction records with prices realized, descriptions and enlargeable photos. Reproduction rights routinely granted to media for photo credit.

About Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's is America's only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store and a division of Macy's, Inc. It was founded in 1872 and currently operates 38 Bloomingdale's stores and 17 Bloomingdale's, The Outlet Stores, in California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. In addition, Bloomingdale's has an international presence with a location in Dubai. Be sure to follow @bloomingdales on social media, become a Loyallist, and for more information, or to shop any time, visit www.bloomingdales.com

Eric Bradley, Director, Public Relations
214-409-1871; EricB@HA.com