On Saturday 26 September in London took place bidding Now : Art of the 21st Century ( «now: The Art of the XXI century"), arranged the auction house Phillips de Pury & Co . At the auction were the works of contemporary artists, designers and photographers. Of the 291 lot of buyers have found 177.

Bidding yielded 1 369 125 pounds. First place in the list of the most expensive work shared a picture of Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) «biopsy, a second series: M865/303, M865/304" (2008) and cloth Fan Lijun (Fang Lijun) «2002.10.1» (2002). Both went for 97 250 pounds *. Hirst's work was estimated at 60-80 thousand, and the creation of Fana - in the 100-150 thousand.

This is followed by picture Jpeg wd01 (2005), author of the famous German artist Thomas Ruff (Thomas Ruff), sold for 46 250 pounds (estimate 30-40 thousand).

In third place - a series of pictures of Bo Hai (Hai Bo), entitled "Four Seasons" (2003). She went for 43 250 pounds at the preliminary assessment of 20-30 thousand. The same amount brought the painting "The Bride of the blue paper - Dream" (2008), the artist Zeng Chuansinom (Zeng Chuanxing). Estimate of the work amounted to 40-60 thousand pounds.

Lithography Damien Hirst, which depicts his famous diamond skull, yielded 7.5 thousand pounds at Estimé 10-15 thousand. False skull, made Fassi, Peter (Peter Fuss), left for 6,9 thousand. Specialists Phillips estimated it at 6-8 thousand.

At the auction has several works of Ukrainian artists. Painting Anton Skorubskogo Kandinsky (great-grandson of the great abstractionist) entitled "Do not want to be a Russian artist I want to be a Chinese artist "(2009) from the series" Kitaizm "was sold for 8,8 thousand pounds in the assessment of 10-15 thousand. Cloth "Labyrinth" (2008) artist Valerie Trubino yielded 5,6 thousands (estimate 6-8 thousand). In "Untitled (Draft" Open Air ")" (2008) Xenia Gnylytska managed to rescue the 4,3 thousands (estimate 4.6 thousand). Painting Maxima Mamsikova «Lenin" (2009) was sold for 8,8 thousand in evaluating 7 -9 thousands. "Hunters" (2009) Andrew Bludova yielded 6,3 thousand pounds (estimate 7.9 thousand). Creation young artist Nicholas Native was submitted to the picture Project Gestures (2009). Buyer laid out for this work is almost 2,4 thousand pounds (estimate 2-3 thousand). A "red graffiti" (2008) Yuri Solomko went for 5,6 thousand in assessing 5 -7 ÔÙÓÑÞ.

October 3 in New York will next thematic auction Phillips de Pury, dedicated to the art of Latin America. It can be bought works by artists such as Jorge Pardo (Jorge Pardo), Roberto Matta (Roberto Matta), Jose Clemente Orozco (José Clemente Orozco) and Rufino Tamayo (Rufino Tamayo).

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Source: phillipsdepury.com , artinvestment.ru