The buyer of the painting of Mark Rothko «White Center», a 15 May 2007 evening auction Sotheby

Buyer paintings of Mark Rothko «White Center», a 15 May 2007 evening auction at Sotheby's New York record 72.8 million dollars (including the auction house commission), was the Qatari sheikh. Only about a year after it was reported the name of the buyer who wanted to remain anonymous immediately after buying the most expensive paintings the second half of the twentieth century.

In addition to paintings by Mark Rothko from the collections of the Rockefeller, the ruling family of Qatar has acquired on the same auction the work of Francis Bacon «The theme of Pope Innocent X» for 52.7 million dollars.

Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani finally enshrined in the title of the buyer the most expensive works of contemporary art, once in June last year at Sotheby's auction for 19.7 million dollars purchased installation «Lullaby Spring» Demiena Hirst , the British, which is considered one of the most expensive of living artists.

Francis Bacon The theme of Pope Innocent X. 1962

These acquisitions represent an important trend in the contemporary art market: the most expensive work is gradually moving from West to East (including not only the collection of buyers from the Arab region, but also to the Chinese investors, as well as in collection of major Russian clients of leading Western auction houses).

Name the new owner of the most expensive work of Mark Rothko has learned from its own sources of The Art Newspaper, which emphasizes that the representatives of the auction house is not called the names of their buyers.

Source: www.artinfo.com , www.lenta.ru