Modern art at Sotheby's
ARTinvestment.RU   12 октября 2008

Works by contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and Peter Doig, will be exhibited at Sotheby's auction on 17 and 20 October in London

17 and 20 October in London on New Bond Street Sotheby's will hold auction of contemporary works of art. In recent years, the demand for them especially increased, and prices rise to record levels. Despite the economic crisis, the home obnadezhennye enormous solo auction Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst) Beautiful Inside My Head Forever , put up for auction an exclusive collection of outstanding works of contemporary artists. Among them are a series of «skulls» Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), as well as the work of Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter), Richard Hamilton (Richard Hamilton), Peter Doig (Peter Doig), Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst) and Anisha Kapoor (Anish Kapoor) . Tenders will be at the same time that the Fair and Frieze.

«skulls» Warhol (estimeyt 5-7 million pounds) can be, without doubt, call one of the most interesting lots, submitted bids. This unique series, which consists of ten paintings, generally similar to each other and differ only in small details and colors. This collection belongs to Thomas Amman (Thomas Ammann), a Swiss art dealer and friend, Warhol.

paintings Gerhard Richter «Jerusalem» (5-7 million pounds) was one of the most interesting landscape works of famous masters, which is considered one of the most commercially successful artists of Germany and all over the world.

On the day the auction on 20 October will be to buy a few works by Peter Doig. The most interesting of them - «Pelican» (estimeyt 70-90 thousand pounds), written after the artist moved in 2002 to the island of Trinidad. Recently in the Paris Museum of Modern Art (Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) was exhibition Doig .

It will cost an auction and not of works from India. Among them are «Cow» (estimeyt 250-300 thousand pounds), made famous sculptor Subodh Gupta (Subodh Gupta ), of which differ from the stereotypes of perception of Indian society, existing in the minds of modern man.

Source: artdaily.org