Results Christie's 13 May: the leader, David Hockney and his “Housewife”
ARTinvestment.RU   14 мая 2009

Yesterday in New York ended trading works of contemporary and postwar art Christie's. In the list of leaders - David Hockney, Richard Dibenkorn, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basque

Last night in New York ended bidding works contemporary and postwar art Christie's . They brought the organizers of 93.7 million dollars, which is justified by preliminary estimates - estimeyt of 71-104 million. It sold 49 lots out of 51.

«The successful sale of works at the last auction clearly demonstrates the confidence in the market situation of large numbers of collectors from various countries who fought in almost every lot, - said Christie's Americas President Marc Porter (Marc Porter). - Prices for the thirty-exposed subjects exceeded the million mark, it was established five new world auction records. These results indicate that buyers are ready to fight for rare works of high quality, and especially for works from the heirs, as well as from museums and private collections ».

One of the most important sections of the last bid was works from collection of well-known in the U.S. the protector of artists and musicians Betty Freeman (Betty Freeman) . The organizers managed to sell 91% of lots from this collection, and obtained for them 31.6 million dollars. Top lot of the strings (and the auction as a whole) was the work of David Hockney (David Hockney) «Housewife of Beverly Hills», which went under the hammer for 7.9 million dollars ( estimeyt 7-10 million dollars ) and became the most expensive product of the author, has ever sold at public auction. Another record found sculpture Klas Oldenburg (Claes Oldenburg) «Eraser», which exceeded estimeyt ( 1,4-1,8 million dollars ) and was sold for 2.2 million. The work of Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein) «Fun (Funny Game)» ( 4-7 million dollars ), decorated the cover of the auction catalog, yielded little more than 6 million dollars and was in third place in the list of top lots . Rare early picture of Sam Francis (Sam Francis) «Gray» (1954) was transferred to the buyer for 3.66 million dollars with estimeyte to 2,5-3,5 million.

  • ROY LIECHTENSTEIN Fun (Veselaya igra). 1977

The second row in the list of leaders of the auction received the Richard Dibenkornu (Richard Diebenkorn) and his work «Ocean Park number 117» (1979), which went under the hammer for 6.58 million dollars ( 4 -6 million ) and very slightly not reached a record price for the product of the author - 6,76 million dollars. A good result and showed a sheet «ancestress» (1982) painted by Jean-Michel Basque (Jean-Michel Basquiat), who made 5.85 million dollars with estimeyte to 5-7 million.

This will be followed by painting by Peter Doig (Peter Doig) «Night Fishing» ( 3-4 million dollars ), for which the buyer has given 4.67 million dollars.

The most expensive work of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) to the last auction, as expected, was the «Last Supper (Camel/57)», which was sold for 4 million dollars ( 4-6 million ).

The works of abstract expressionists, submitted at the auction, also showed excellent results. The work of Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock) «Untitled», estimated at 400-600 thousand, went under the hammer for U.S. $ 506.6 thousand, a «woman» Willem de Kuninga (Willem de Kooning) managed to almost two times higher than in the upper estimeyt 1,4-1,8 million. The amount that paid for her new owner, was the whole 3.66 million.

material produced Catherine Onuchin, AI

Sources: artdaily.com , christies.com , artinvestment.ru



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