At an auction of works of the Impressionists and modernists exhibited rare work of Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinsky, and Alberto Giacometti

Recently, everyone's talking about the November auctions in New York, which will be exhibited a very rare work. ARTinvestment.RU already wrote about the auction of Contemporary Art Sotheby's and Christie's : at first appear Multimillion works by Yves Klein (Yves Klein), Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), and Gaston, Philip (Philip Guston), on the second - no less expensive paintings of Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), Jean-Michel Basque (Jean-Michel Basquiat) and Luchio Fountains (Lucio Fontana). But the most high-profile will be auctioned Impressionist and Modern Sotheby's, which will feature « Suprematist composition »Kazimir Malevich .

«And who does all this would have to buy?!» - probably surprise the reader will think, remembering shown in news stories about the global economic crisis, which affected everyone, including customers Sotheby's and Christie's. But organizers are confident auctions: Buyers at the masterpieces there. When presented with another chance to buy this cloth Malevitch, moreover, and this valuable time? .. At least this picture, you can be calm, but still the same in the New York Times writes that Sotheby's has found a buyer. Of course, the September and October caused auctions auction houses hit: for example, the same Sotheby's because of the failed bid in London and Hong Kong has lost 15 million dollars to the seller . Yes still the same a recent Christie's auction in Dubai, the main stronghold of billionaires failed. But the critics agree that the «bloody baths» on the New York bid will not be: it is in such a difficult time increasing the demand for very rare and beautiful works that had never appeared at auction. If the paintings of Malevich, or, for example, Bacon, do not buy, it could completely undermine the credibility of the art market, prices will drop and no one else wants to display such masterpieces at auction.

Of course, all attention now attracts Malevitch picture, but the organizers of the evening Impressionist and Modern auction Christie's, which will be held Nov. 6, hunters are preparing for the masterpieces of few surprises. Top-lot auction was the painting of Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso) «Two figures (Marie-Thérèse and her sister, reading)», written in 1934. This work appears in the bidding for the first time. It depicted two girls, one of them - love the artist Marie-Therese Walter (Marie-Thérèse Walter). This girl is attracted by Picasso, his youth, freshness and gentle beauty, and her portraits are full of sensual lines and «Spring» paint. The painting valued at 18-25 million dollars.

Another top lot is the upcoming auction, patriarch abstract art painting by Vasily Kandinsky «Etude to improvisation number 3 », also never appeared at auction. Cloth was written in 1909, a period when the artist still built in the style of expressionism, but it is already moving to abstraction. When writing a picture-«improvisations» Kandinsky inspired landscapes of the Bavarian town of Murnau, where he then lived with his lover, Gabriel Myunter (Gabriele Münter), as well as local art of painting on glass and folk art. Cloth «Study for Improvisation number 3» comes from the collection of textile magnate Hermann Lange (Hermann Lange). It is estimated at 15-20 million dollars. Note that the current record in the works of Kandinsky is 22,99 million dollars per picture «Fuga» 1914, sold for Sotheby's auction in 1990 .

In addition, at Christie's on Nov. 6 will be presented to the sculptural composition Alberto Giacometti called «The three-reaching Rights I». Those who are not yet familiar with the thin, fragile bronze artist's creations, they can be seen at exhibition Giacometti, which is now being held at the Museum of the Pushkin Museum of Private Collections them. Alexander Pushkin . Record on the works of the Swiss master has been set in May this year when his sculpture «Large woman standing II» had nearly 27.5 million dollars at Christie's auction in New York. Three man whose long limbs like burnt twigs, experts estimated the auction house in the 14-18 million dollars. They say that when you create your «reaching people» Giacometti recalled video, which showed the marching soldiers and emaciated refugees.

Pictures of famous cubists GRIS, Juan (Juan Gris) appear at auction is much less than the works of his compatriot Pablo Picasso. This artist was short but very bright and rich artistic discoveries of the life: he became one of the founders of Synthetic Cubism, and is considered one of the best koloristov of avant-garde artists. At Christie's a picture of his «The book, glasses and tube», written in 1915. Her estimeyt - 12,5-18,5 million dollars.

In addition to these, the auction catalog includes works by Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse), Gustave Kaybotta (Gustave Caillebotte), Henry Moore (Henry Moore), Paul Cézanne (Paul Cézanne) and other masters. Recall that November 6, Christie's will also hold daily auctions, and November 7 - auction schedules.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: Christies.com , artinvestment.ru