Amid high-profile news about the divorce of johnny Depp with amber heard, it was reported that the actor intends to auction off his collection of the works of Jean-Мишеля Basquiat

johnny Depp, who will soon difficult and, no doubt, costly divorce with his ex-wife amber heard, announced it will sell at the auction of postwar and contemporary Christie's his collection of nine works by Jean-Мишеля Basquiat. Works from the collection of Depp's promise to become the top-лотами auction Christie's, which will be held on June 29 – 30 in London. String Basquiat covers 25 years of the creative career of the artist. Christie's argue that the sale of works of Basquiat Depp was planned from the beginning, and has nothing to do with his divorce.

"Nothing can replace the warmth and immediacy of Basquiat's poetics, or the eternal questions and truths that he carried us @- quoting johnny Depp in the release of Christie's. Beautiful and disturbing music of his paintings, the cacophony of his silence that strikes our senses, will live far beyond our understanding."

Among the works of Basquiat from the collection of Depp, who exhibited at the auction, made for the door work "Pork" in 1981 with a modest estimate of £2 500 000-3 500 000 ($3 600 000-5 000 000). The most expensive to date, the work of Jean-Мишеля Basquiat is the thing "untitled," which in may of this year was sold at Christie's Japanese maesawa of Yusaku (Yusaku Maezawa) for $57.3 million.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artnet.com, christies.com, artinvestment.ru