Who is behind the most expensive transactions in the art world?
ARTinvestment.RU   24 апреля 2017

Forbes recalled the most high-profile deals with the art that have not remained anonymous

while Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier are arguing about who suffered b long loss as a result of the longstanding cooperation in the purchase of works of art, Forbes decided to recall the other buyers and sellers of expensive works. Almost all transactions took place in 2016.

Sellers

the Famous American TV host and the first black woman-миллиардер Oprah Winfrey bought "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Бауэр II" by Gustav Klimt in 2006, at Christie's for $87.9 million, and after 10 years sold to a Chinese rich man for $150 million in a private transaction. In the end, Oprah earned his Clime more than $60 million.

the Art collection of the former Prime Minister-министра of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, which occupies over 10 thousand square meters of exhibition space in his residence in Tbilisi, is estimated at about a billion dollars. Accurate to say, been evaluated since last year, Ivanishvili decided to leave with multiple masterpieces in a total amount of $110 million, the Lion's share of revenue provided by the sale of Willem de Kooning's "untitled XXV," in 1977 for $66,3 million For 8 years before that, in 2009, Ivanishvili acquired De Kooning in a private transaction for $35 million. Thus, in less than ten years, the margin was about $30 million, or 89 %.

One of the founders of Microsoft, Paul Allen acquired a photo-realistic painting by Gerhard Richter from the German jet fighter "Düsenjäger" for $11.2 million in 2007. This is one of the eight in a series of paintings Richter with a military aircraft. Nine years later, in November 2016 at the auction of contemporary art Phillips Paul Allen resold the work for $25.5 million, i.e. at least twice as expensive.

Buyers

American entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli broad in may 2016 we have a collection of work by Sam Francis "Summer #1" (1957). The work took pride of place in expositions of his own Museum Eli broad, open them, together with his wife Edith in Los-Анджелесе in 2015.

He had dreamed about this picture for over 20 years. In 1995, at Sotheby's auction's become one of the most important works by Diego Rivera in private hands — "Dance in Tehuantepec" (1928). Argentine art collector and founder of the Museum of Latin American art in Buenos-Айресе Eduardo Costantini (Eduardo Costantini) fought for the painting Rivera at auction with an unknown opponent, but was never able to buy it. "All these years, I thought about who bought that painting and where is itnow", — said the Argentine. And finally, in may 2016 in a private transaction conducted by the auction house Phillips, painting Diego Rivera was sold for $15.7 million — this time Constantini.

the Founder of hedge-фонда Citadel Ken Griffin in a private transaction bought for $500 million of "Mixing" of Willem de Kooning and "Number 17" of Jackson Pollock. The deal was completed in the fall of 2015, but information about it was leaked to the press in February 2016. "Mixing" of Willem de Kooning — one of his most famous works. At Sotheby's auction in 1989, it was sold for the fabulous for those times $20.7 million, three times the estimate of $4-6 million.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: forbes.com, bloomberg.com, artinvestment.ru