Yesterday in London the bidding works of Impressionist and Modern Christie's. The largest amount yielded by Claude Monet painting

last night in London have been trading works by Impressionists and modernists, arranged the auction house Christie's . Total auction brought 37.2 million pounds - within the estimate (36,9-50,2 million). During the auction, two of the milestone surpassed the 5 million pounds, nine of work left for amounts exceeding 1 million. Most customers (84%) were from Europe. The Americans were not very many - 14%. The remaining two per cent were born in Asia.

first line in the list of top lots occupied landscape by Claude Monet (Claude Monet), entitled "In the Park Monceau» ( estimate 3,5 -- 4.5 million pounds ), painted by the artist in 1878 and relating to the period of the classical impressionism. An anonymous buyer laid out for him 6.3 million pounds. Whole day this picture was exhibited at auction in 2001 in London and then was sold for 3.7 million pounds, so yesterday, the previous owner received a good income.

higher estimate: ( 5-7 million pounds ) was set to auction the work "A man with a sword" Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso), in the results showed the result of 5.75 million. And here the seller could earn good money: four years ago, the work had cost him "only" 2.7 million pounds. At yesterday's auction of the struggle for the "Man with a sword" was short-lived. The new owner of the paintings became the representative of the influential clan, art dealers Nahmad Ezra (Ezra Nahmad).

Among other acquisitions Nahmada - a work of Joan Miro (Joan Miró), entitled "Painting (Woman, superimposed powder ) ", which was estimated at 2,2-2,8 million. For the Catalan surrealist painting fought at least four people, including a New York dealer Akuavella Elinor (Eleanor Acquavella) of the Acquavella Galleries. Nahmad paid for the work of 3.96 million.

painting by Franz Marc (Franz Marc) «Horses" is a vivid reflection of the most avant-garde artistic trends of that time in the work of the author, was offered at auction for the first time ( 3-4 million pounds ) and went for 3.7 million. Its got an anonymous buyer.

second painting by Picasso, "Seated Nude" and the player on the flute "(1967), went under the hammer for 3.4 million pounds, within the estimate ( 3.4 million ).

During the bidding of their owners found a portrait by Alexei Yavlensky «Ellen", sold for the amount of 1,7 million pounds picture of Emil Nolde (Emil Nolde) «Poppy, pushed sold for 1.27 million and the painting" Arrangement "Fernand Leger (Fernand Leger), sold for the amount of 1.21 million pounds. They all showed results slightly exceed the estimate: lower bounds.

bronze sculpture of "Bust of Diego» ( 750-950 thousand pounds ) Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti) also became one of the top lots of the auction and was sold for a sum of 1.03 million pounds.

Cloth "Mont Royg. Bridge »( 400-600 thousand pounds ) brush Joan Miro, established in 1917 in Catalonia and represents a striking example of early landscape art of the author, went under the hammer for 541.3 thousand pounds.

"View of the embankment Malake and the Institute" Camille Pissarro (Camille Pissarro) , estimated at 0,9-1,5 million pounds was withdrawn from the auction. The owner of the work, Gisela Bermann-Fischer (Gisela Bermann-Fischer), got her restitution - in 1938 the canvas was stolen from her parents by the Nazis. But recently found another heir, who also claims to now, and why to auction it decided not to stand.

Johan Pulkkanen, President of the European Office of Christie's: «Over the past six months our auctions category "Art of impressionism and modernism", held in London, Paris and New York, showed a stable and reliable results. Today's auction also confirmed that the collectors, both permanent and new, have shown considerable interest in the work of world renowned artists. The demand for works of the masters in this category is constantly growing, and prices of these works remain stable at a high level. Even in such difficult economic conditions continue to be active collectors at the auction and fight for a truly rare and beautiful works of art ».

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: post-release Christie's, artinfo.com , christies.com , artinvestment.ru