The most successful artist
ARTinvestment.RU   01 марта 2011

Rating the top 10 auction sales of works of living artists

Information Resource Artprice.com is ranking the ten most successful auction sales of works by living artists.

Author

Result , U.S.

Title

Trades

a

Cindy Sherman

2,400,000

Untitled № 153 (1985)

November 8, 2010
Phillips de Pury, New York

2

Julie Meret

2,000,000

Seven Acts of Mercy (2004)

November 9, 2010
Sotheby's, New York

3

Bharti Kher

1,280,610

The skin does not speak their language (2006)

June 28, 2010
Sotheby's, London

4

Cindy Sherman

1,200,000

No title number four hundred twenty (2004)

November 8, 2010
Phillips de Pury, New York

5

Cindy Sherman

1,200,000

Untitled number 88 (1981)

6

Marlene Dumas

900 000

Stella (2000)

May 11, 2010
Christie's, New York

7

Cecily Brown

900 000

Suddenly Last Summer

(1999)

May 12, 2010
Sotheby's, New York

8

Cecilia EDEFALK

853 730

Little (1986-1987)

November 17, 2010
Bukowskis, Stockholm

9

Julie Meret

850 000

Untitled I (2001 )

September 25, 2010
Sotheby's, New York

10

Beatrice MILYASESH

678 195

Morin (2005)

June 30, 2010
Christie's, London

SINDI Cindy Sherman No title number 153. 1985
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Cindy Sherman

Last year, just three works by Cindy Sherman (Cindy Sherman) crossed the bar of one million dollars, all three works went under the hammer for three days. November 8 Phillips de Pury «Carte Blanche, where one of the curators made art dealer Philip Segal (Philippe Segalot) , diptych of Cindy Sherman "Untitled № 420" was sold for 1.2 million dollars (prices are exclusive of Buyer's Premium and may vary from prices listed in other materials ARTinvestment.RU. - AI .), and her work is "Untitled № 153" reached a record 2.4 million dollars. Two days later, on New York's Christie's auction picture Sherman "Untitled number 88" was sold again for 1.2 million.

In the wake of this success, the price index of works of American artist soared 90%compared with the beginning of 2010. From now on, Cindy Sherman, ranked second in the overall ranking of the most successful contemporary artists, second only to Marlene Dumas (Marlene Dumas).

Contemporary African Art

In November 2004, Marlene Dumas became the first living artist today that has achieved at auction the seven-digit result. Since then, the price index of its work moved in an entirely different dimension: Dumas paintings go for millions. So, for his work "visitor" in 2008 at Sotheby's paid 6.3 million dollars. In 2010, the most successful deal with the works of Dumas was the sale of paintings "Stella" at Christie's, New York for 900 thousand dollars (6 th place ranking).

JULIE Meret Untitled I. 2001
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in 2010 was successful and to Ethiopian artist Meret Julie (Julie Mehretu), established in the year as many as three personal records, two of which were included in the rating Artprice. In September, the Sotheby's auction works from the collections of Lehman Brothers abstract paintings "Untitled I» was sold for 800,000 dollars and was the top lot of the auction, as well as the most expensive work of the artist (#9). But this record was soon broken: in November at an auction of modern art Sotheby's painting "Seven acts of Mercy" has found a new owner for $ 2 million (2 nd place ranking).

Bharti Kher The skin does not speak their language
2006. Source: thehindu.com

Bharti Kher

In third place - the sculpture "Skin does not speak their language "an Indian Bharti Kher (Bharti Kher), sold at Sotheby's in London for 1.2 million dollars. Due to the same sales as an artist came in 9 th place rating Artprice «Top 10 contemporary artists at auction turnover of money (July 2009 - June 2010) », beating her husband Subodh Gupta (Subodh Gupta). Now, Bharti Kher - one of the world's most renowned Indian artists, her work will be included in an ambitious exhibition "Paris - Delhi - Bombay," which opens at the Pompidou Center in May 2011.

Modern European art

Britain's Cecily Brown (Cecily Brown) is the seventh line of the rating the most successful artists with his abstract painting "Suddenly Last Summer", sold in New York Sotheby's for 900,000 dollars at the top estimeyte work in 700 thousand. Interestingly, this same situation a year earlier, in 2009, was sold for 550,000 dollars.

SESILIYa Cecil EDEFALK Little. 1986-1987
Source: hoglander.se

Swedish artist Cecilia Edefalk (Cecilia Edefalk) is now one of the most famous in his homeland, where her work achieve excellent results at auction. So, at the Stockholm Bukowskis for its graceful oil painting "Tiny" had paid 853,730 dollars (8 th place ranking). Among the works of Swedish artists on the global art market canvases Edelfalk now valued above all others. It has expressed interest in the prestigious New York gallery, Barbara Gladstone (Barbara Gladstone), where they sell, including works Matthew Barney (Matthew Barney), Alighieri Boetti (Alighiero Boetti) and Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor).

Beatrice Milyasesh

Closes rating Artprice acrylic painting "Morin" Brazilian artist Beatriz Milyasesh (Beatriz Milhazes), pushed under the hammer at London auction Christie's for 450,000 pounds (678,195 dollars). Colorful works of this artist is the leading museums (MOMA, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim), and last year three of its paintings went under the hammer for an amount in excess of 300 thousand dollars.

The artists included in due measure in the history of art only in the twentieth century, it was always difficult to compete with male authors. And although these days of artists is well represented in international museums and exhibitions, market prices for the "male" and "female" work is still not comparable. about why women's work less works of men, can be read here .

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artprice.com , artinvestment.ru



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