The June auction brought Sotheby's $430 million
ARTinvestment.RU   02 июля 2020

This result showed the total of five "daytime" and "evening" online-аукционов held on 29 and 30 June 2020

a Series of five auctions that ended June 30, became the most successful among online-торгов auction house this year. In the course of trading in new hands left 85 % of the lots, and the total amount of transactions exceeded $430 million All auctions were conducted in real-time remotely: leading the auction was in London, and phone bids were accepted by specialists of the auction house in London, new-Йорке and Hong Kong. In addition, the bidders were available and online-участия.

Top-лотом this series of trades was the "Triptych inspired by Aeschylus Orestia" Francis bacon sold at the evening auction of contemporary art (Contemporary Art Evening Auction) June 29. In the drawing of lots was attended by customers of the auction house in Hong Kong and new-Йорке who made bets on the phone. 10 minutes dramatic struggle for the lot they were able to bring the price beyond the upper estimate and in the end, triptych, previously estimated at $60-80 million, was sold for $84,6 million

Another achievement of June 29 was 100%-ный sales results exhibited in three auctions of the work of women-художников. So, the auction is The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale — auction of contemporary art women-художниц from the collection of Ginny Williams — brought a total of more than $65 million, showing another example of flawless result for auctions from the category sale one owner, has risen in one number with such auctions as the sale of the collections of the Rockefeller, or Elizabeth Taylor.

In total at auction on 29 and 30 June was 14 set individual auction records for individual artists including Leonor Fini ($980 thousand), Matthew Wong ($1.8 million) and works on paper by Jean-Мишеля Basquiat ($15.2 million).

with regard to artists orbit Russian art, the highest result achieved work of "green, blue, Green" by Mark Rothko, sold at the evening auction on June 29 for $8,35 million (just sold two of the three exhibited on June 29-30, it works). The most successful artist in this category was the representative of the Paris school, was born in Russian Empire, Moses Kisling: all four of his works exhibited at the day auctions of impressionist and modern, have been sold, totaling nearly $300 thousand.

in addition to Rothko and kiesling, the auction series, Sotheby's 29-30 June were also hit by Marc Chagall (best score — $596 thousand), Jacques Lipchitz ($125 thousand), Wassily Kandinsky ($56,2 million), Tamara de Lempicka ($596 thousand) and Sanja Kantarovski ($27.5 thousand). Today, 2 July, the baton Sotheby's evening auction of contemporary art will be picked up by auction house Phillips.

for More details about the schedule of major auctions this summer, we wrote here here.

the Material was prepared by Maria Kuznetsova, AI

Source: website and press-релиз auction house Sotheby's