Art restructuring at Phillips de Pury
ARTinvestment.RU   28 сентября 2007

Inspired a huge success «Russian» strings and unexpected status auction that it set a record price for contemporary Russian art house Phillips de Pury prepared on 13 October held in London specialized trades «Russian modernism and modern

inspired a huge success «Russian» strings and unexpected status auction that it set a record price for contemporary Russian art house Phillips de Pury on October 13 was preparing to hold special auction in London «Russian modernism and contemporary art».

directory is not yet published, but preliminary information is known. At the auction will be exhibited 65 works performed by artists in the 1970 semi-s-1980's. In particular, customers will be offered to the work of Erik Bulatov, Ivan Chuikov, Oleg Vasiliev and Dubosarsky with Vinogradov. Auctioneer expect to receive proceeds of about 7.23 million dollars. The works came from the American collector John Stewart, who acquired them directly from Moscow artists in times of restructuring (1986-1991).

Among the top lots pledged - three huge «Sots Art» Eric Bulatova with recognizable names: «Soviet space» (1977; estimeyt: 0,75-1 million pounds), «Restructuring» (1989; estimeyt : 500-750 thousand pounds) and the «winter» (1989; expert evaluation: 400-600 thousand pounds). Portfolio Bulatova recently sold for fantastic prices. The artist in the Soviet period to earn a living illustration of the book, like many other kontseptualisty, including his colleague, Ilya Kabakov. Since 1992, Bulatov lives in Paris.

List «haylaytov» bidding continues composition «Windows» (1988; estimeyt: 90-110 thousand pounds), Oleg Vassiliev, and the work of Ivan Chuikov «Postcard, postcards fragment, a fragment of a fragment of» (1984; estimeyt: 75-100 thousand pounds).

The first auction «Soviet lots» Phillips held 22 June 2007. And immediately got to the point, setting a series of records. Thus, the most expensive painting of modern Russian artists began large-scale work of Ilya Kabakov «Suite» (1981), which estimeyta of 600 thousand pounds of broken up to two million pounds. According to Igor Markina (owner of fashion Museum of Contemporary Russian art art4.ru ) , the thing I bought Vyacheslav Kantor, a well-known collector of works of Jewish artists. A second place on a pedestal of Modern Art won the 2.4-meter-long canvas «Do not lean» Erik Bulatov, which gave 916 thousand pounds (just under two million dollars).

Auction house Phillips de Pury was reorganized in 2004, when the former Sotheby's auctioneer named de Piura bought a controlling stake in the London auction house Phillips with dvuhvekovoy history. Interestingly, Mr de Piura was the organizer of the famous Sotheby's auction in Moscow in 1988. In general, and this time with затеи has all the components of success - if Russian buyers uspeyut come in after a violent political background information related to movement in the government.

Source: www.phillipsdepury.com , art4-ru.livejournal.com