Rapper Timati bought a painting by George Condo? How much are the artist's works
ARTinvestment.RU   25 сентября 2018

The singer, entrepreneur and producer Timur Yunusov (Timati) published in the official "Instagram" their photos on the background of paintings by famous American artist working at the intersection of pop-арта and neo-expressionism

the caption to the photo read: "Dreams come true". He bought that painting or he gave — can not say exactly. It is known that Timothy has a collection, he loves art and occasionally getting the right gifts. But in the context of rather bought. It does not matter. In any case, you can sincerely congratulate. The striking thing, large (height under 170cm) very distinctive, recognizable, and without quite so desperate extreme, which can Condo.

the Reaction of subscribers to the official channel Timati not difficult to predict. Definitely, half the people there are well versed in the art in General, and in today's — especially. Hordes of art-консультантов started with "a child could do better", and then increase the degree of scientific dispute theses "artist — addict", "unfinished Picasso" and "Maybe I should also start painting the ugliness that other people liked"... those Who are interested to enrich their knowledge in art and sociology, can enjoy themselves comments here.

And after all this they still they didn't see what-настоящему able Condo. The one that hangs Timati, — is generally-то "Condo-лайт". The artist sometimes puts so much that images of his paintings was prohibited by censorship and face limitations. So, for example, was seven years-восемь ago when he made several paintings for the covers of rap-альбома My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West (whose wife — Kim Kardashian). Option with a naked harpy and the black demon had to score pixels to be able to sell online-магазины. Later Condo with West launched a new collaboration — series of t-shirts with the image of those resonant paintings on the cover. In General, hispanola in full, as it should be pop-арту with hip-хопом.

What you need to know about Condo. He is 61 years old, during the heyday of pop-арта and American abstract neo-expressionism he was young, but managed to catch the main people of the era: friends with Harringon, Basquiat, Warhol, all the legendary new-йоркской the party. The most memorable of his stuff — grotesque "portraits of emotion", a complex Hommage world classics and shameless pop-артовский mess. The artist's bold, distinctive and criticism in the spirit of "Picasso unfinished" is no longer responsive.

the Fact that the artist-то happened, I immediately saw the statistics of the queries from our website. For no reason people rushed to read the news on his show, 10-летней ago. Had to find a reason for such a rapid surge of interest. On the Russian market the first work Condo around the time he began to exhibit and sell the gallery owner Gary Tatintsyan. Now all became interested in the rates, prices there. So now quickly corrected.

so, how much should Condo?

the record Price for public sales of George Condo was installed in may 2018 at Christie's. A two-meter canvas, 2014 "the Naked and the shape" was sold for $6 162 500, almost triple excess of the assessment of the auction house. And this result cannot be considered as unexplained-аномальным. On the contrary, all that and went. In 2017-2018 five other paintings of comparable size overcame the level of $2 000 000 $3 000 000. So the gap is not prohibitive. In General, the normal auction price for a good Condo the size of two meters in 2018 is $1 000 000-1 500 000. Plus-минус. This is almost two times more than 5 years ago. Although there are exceptions. For example, a four-foot oil "Writer" (it was in Moscow at the exhibition in Tatintsian in 2008) in may 2018 sold at Phillips in Hong Kong for $332 000. Generally in the range of $200 000-400 000 are now paintings Condo less than a meter and a large graph. What happened to "Writer"? Maybe the story disappoint. With other works of this series, by the way, the same story. Economy-сегмента to the General public as other artists, have a Condo at all. Even his draw graphics (etching and aquatint) is in the range of $2 000-4 000. And to buy it especially makes no sense because the Condo is in these sheets, learn can be difficult.

speaking about the beautiful working class as Timothy (and she is really super), then for an auction, according to the reference sales, it could cost about $1 200 000-1 500 000. Plus-минус (in the gallery market prices may vary both upwards and downwards, which is quite normal). This is for information for those who have a "child could do better".

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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