Christie's sells contemporary art at low prices
ARTinvestment.RU   01 августа 2008

September 9 in New York held a public auction First Open, where novice collectors can buy the work of Cindy Sherman, David Sally, Yaei Kusama, Elizabeth Peyton, and other artists are not very high prices

9 September in New York will host the 8 th auction, Christie's First Open. At the auction will be on display 230 masterpieces of postwar and contemporary artists. Estimeyt auction - 6-8 million dollars. First Open is designed for novice collectors, as well as for those who are not willing to put works of art for millions of dollars. Here the work of the most famous contemporary artists can be purchased at the price of 1 500 to 500 000 dollars.

in the auction catalog, new names such as Raphal Buynovski (Rafal Bujnowski), Kaivano Ernesto (Ernesto Caivano) and James Siena (James Siena), together with recognized artists - Alexander Kalderom (Alexander Calder), Anselm Kifer ( Anselm Kiefer), Robert Mazeruellom (Robert Motherwell), Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), Elizabeth Peyton (Elizabeth Peyton), Prins Richard (Richard Prince), Tomas Raffo (Thomas Ruff), Richard Serra (Richard Serra), Cindy Sherman (Cindy Sherman), James Tarrellom (James Turrell), Tom Uesselmannom (Tom Wesselmann) and Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol).

Top-lot auction - a rare work of Cindy Sherman - a picture of a estimeytom 300-500 thousand dollars. «Untitled. A frame from the movie number 13 »1978, comes from the famous series entitled« Human Resources », where the artist to apply a variety of roles that women play in society. Sherman began to create the series in 1977, when she was only 23 years. Her photographs appear in these frames, taken from the conventional Hollywood movie, and it is difficult to believe that, in fact, no films were not. The series consists of 69 photos, each of which is printed in a single copy.

Composition David Sally (David Salle) «noun» evaluated by specialists of the auction of 200-300 thousand dollars. This painting was created in 2003 out of twenty-four color pictures of objects that do not have anything in common between them. Each of the parts of the paintings can be seen as a separate picture. And you can see how very different picture, color and form come together.

hit the auction also consider bright abstract work provocateur Thomas Raffi «Substratum 7III» (2002), placed on auction with estimeytom 50-70 thousand dollars.

picture of the legendary Japanese artist Yaei Kusama (Yayoi Kusama) «Identification of the 21 th Century »(1988, estimeyt - 40-60 thousand) is a geometric abstraction in the spirit of PD-Art (Optical Art), where form and color combinations are unexpected and create the illusion of movement on the canvas.

Elizabeth Peyton, beautiful portraits of their famous friends, as well as musicians and other artists will be represented at the auction picture «Jarvis» - the image of the famous British singer Coker Jarvis (Jarvis Cocker). The portrait painted in 1996. His estimeyt - 30-40 thousand. Customers also have the option to buy the orange «Vietnamese» Legends «appropriation art» Richard Prince. This ironical sculpture, created in 1988, Christie's estimated at 25-30 thousand dollars.

Of course, bidding is not without cost of works of Jeff Koons. Fans of his cheerful pop art will be able to buy «donkey» Stainless Steel (1997, estimeyt - 25-35 thousand), or «Inflatable Flower (Green)» (2001, estimeyt - 40-60 thousand dollars).

All the paintings, graphic works and sculptures exhibited at the auction can be seen in the pre-show, which will be held in New York Gallery of Christie's from 5 to 8 September. You can also be seen « functional sculpture» , which will be sold at the bidding on the masterpieces of modern design .

Sources: www.artdaily.org , artinvestment.ru