It is on the auction house the work of Kandinsky that once was set the price record for Russian art. However, this auction does not often get in our field of view

It is on the auction house the work of Kandinsky that once was set the price record for Russian art. However, this auction does not often get in the field of view. Maybe because the specialized «Russians bid» at Phillips de Pury ( www.phillipsdepury.com ) has not yet been conducted, and work
our artists sell in a mixed format, the common queue. As part of a benefit. But it looks pointeresnee when in the vicinity of Jean-Michel Basque in the June auction «Contemporary Art» sold Gerhard Richter, Richard Prince, Demen Hurst, a crowd of fashionable Chinese, well, for our company. It is, of course, not only to see the level of Russian art in the international context (so readers will forgive me for this word). Just a fun format for the definition. As the Olympics on the Russia Cup fun.

forces to try to grant the world of contemporary art came Ilya Kabakov, Natalya Nesterova, Erik Bulatov, Evgeny Chubarov (all - one work), Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid (a work in co-authorship), as well as Vladimir and Dubossarskii Alexander Vinogradov (also a work in co-authorship).

And all would be nothing, just as the unseen, silent sapoy, June 22 set a new price record for Russian postwar art. And more precisely, that for one bid has been busy all the prize podium.

NATALYA NESTEROVA. People on the beach. 1990. Oil on canvas. 162,9 x 162,9. Estimeyt: 30-40 thousand pounds. Sale price: 66 thousand pounds. Phillips de Pury. 22.06.07. Lot number 53

Remember «Still life with three jugs» Krasnopevtseva to 31 May 2006, was sold at Sotheby's for 1, 2 million dollars in terms of pounds? Remember how many of the noise? Krasnopevtsev was the first line in the rating of the sixties - the most expensive works of authors more than a year. With the caveat that the same Kabakov, for which a million - it has long passed the stage for some reason always forget to count. Almost as Kandinsky at a record Somova.

Oh so long led, then we will not take into account the «father of conceptualism» with its two millions of pounds sold for at auction discussed gigantic picture «Room Suite» 1981. Thus, for the purity of the experiment. However, the trick will not help.

June 22 for 2, 4-meter-long canvas «Do not lean» Eric Bulatova have cost 916 thousand pounds (a little less than $ 2 million).
In general, forget about Krasnopevtseva with its 1.2 million U.S. - now the leaders of Erik Bulatov. Who would have thought!

Yes, and the second place (ie the third, counting from Kabakov) now occupied. Eugene Chubarov. Huge «pollokovskaya» abstraction with an ethnic component «Untitled» 1994. Immediately 692 thousand pounds - more than Krasnopevtseva. Could it be otherwise? Of course not. It is already the second Chubarova work sold at auction.

Others, too, we do not hit in the face of the mud. All the works were sold in excess of estimeytov in 2-7 times, it's not one million. Just on a pedestal of contemporary Russian art in the evening had ended in the step.

Source: www.phillipsdepury.com