Malevich, Monet, Matisse, Brancusi, De Stael: the updates in the ratings of AI
ARTinvestment.RU   30 мая 2018

Auctions Christie's this may have been rich in records. Updated rankings of world and Russian artists and sculptors rating

may 8, 2018 at the Christie's auction from the collection of David and Peggy Rockefeller was set two records that changed our ratings. For the work of Claude Monet's "water Lilies in bloom" (1914-1917) a client (likely from Asia) paid $for 84.7 million including Commission, which is 3 million above the previous record and enough to put of Claude Monet at 14-ю place in the rating of world-class artists.

At the same auction a painting by Henri Matisse's "Reclining odalisque with magnolias" in 1923 was sold for $80.75 million, This sale allowed for the first time to include this wonderful artist in the ranking of the most expensive in the world authors: Matisse came to 17-ю line.

After just a week, may 15, 2018, at the evening auction of impressionist and modern Christie's "Suprematist composition" (1916) by Kazimir Malevich has updated its own record of ten years ago: risen from $60 to $85.8 million to Change the position in the ranking of Russian artists Malevich failed, he remained in 2-м place (for the record Mark Rothko lacked any-то $1.3 million). But in the ranking of global artists Kazimir Severinovich broke for the first time and immediately — on 13-е place.

At the same auction may 15 updated personal record sculptor Constantin Brancusi (Brancusi): his bronze "Dainty girl (Portrait of Nancy Cunard)" (1928 plan; casting 1932) was sold for $71 million with the auction house Commission. This record raised Brancusi 5-й 3-ю place in the ranking of sculptors and became the author's ticket for the rating of the world's artists, in which he finished 20-е place.

Finally, on may 17, 2018 evening auction of postwar and contemporary art Christie's updated personal record, a native of the Russian Empire Nikolai V. Stal von Holstein, better known as Nicolas de Stael (Nicolas de Stael, 1914-1955). His "Standing Nude" was sold for $12,125 million, almost $3 million more than the previous high in 2011 ("Reclining Nude", price us $9.4 million). Nicolas de Stael went from 11-й 8-ю place in the ranking of Russian artists.

More details of the AI ratings can be found here:

Top-24 world artists

Top-32 Russian artists

Top-34 world of sculptors

Source: artinvestment.ru