Eleven price records set at the auction of contemporary art auction house Sotheby's. The total at the end of the auction bidding during the evening on July 1 reached 94.7 million pounds (188.8 million dollars).

Top fathomable auction is a unique product of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, Francis Bacon « Study the head of George Dyer » (1967), which went under the hammer for 13.7 million pounds (27 million dollars) at the initial evaluation of the 8 million pounds (nearly 16 million U.S. dollars).

reduction, human development, a copy of a monumental sculpture of Antony Gormley «Angel of the North», installed at the entrance to the city of Newcastle, which became a byword for the North of England, sold for 2.8 million pounds in the initial evaluation of 600-800 thousand pounds .

Over 241 thousand pounds sold an unknown collector of «Portrait of John Makinroya and Tatum O'Neil» . This is a work of masters of American pop art of Andy Warhol put up for sale a winner of seven tournaments «Greater helmet» American John Makinroy.

belonged to the Irish rock group U2 picture of the American neoekspressionista Jean-Michel Basque sold slightly more than 5 million pounds sterling .

All proceeds from the sale of funds received in a charity fund «Abode humanity», which deals with the disadvantaged. According to the Director of the Fund Yena Uelkdena, «this money will help renovate or build a hundred houses in developing countries».

Anna Savitskaya

Source: www.sothebys.com , www.lenta.ru , www.newsru.com , artinvestment. ru