new York gallery David Zwirner (davidzwirner.com) reported with regret of the death of 81-year-old artist She is the Kavars (1933-2014).

the Main tool of his statements was the time in its irreversible. On 4 January 1965, shortly after moving to America, He Kawara began his most famous concept series Today. Almost every (but not strictly every day, the artist painted on canvas current date and put in a box together with the Newspapers of that day, and the city in which he was caught passing day. They say that if a day is missed or the artist does not have time to finish the canvas before the end of the day, the thing was destroyed. The month in the date was written in the language of the country where the picture was created (if you did not use Latin, Esperanto).

In recent years, auction prices for conceptual "escartin" (date paintings) She Kavars reached 300-500 thousand dollars. But the record was set 2 months ago at Christie's. Six-foot acrylic "may 1, 1987" was bought for nearly 4.2 million dollarov@