Today in New York held the evening auctions of contemporary art works by Phillips de Pury. Attention buyers will be offered 40 lots.

The highest estimate - 700-900 thousand dollars - was a sculpture by Andy Warhol's Brillo Box ( «box of household sponges Brillo»). The work was created in 1964 - a period which is considered the artist's most valuable (ie if there were "soup cans Campbell», portraits of Marilyn Monroe ...). "Boxes" Warhol might remind someone Readymade by Marcel Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp), although they have one fundamental difference: while Duchamp took ordinary, prosaic objects "from the real world" and offered to take their art solely on the ground, they are exhibited in the gallery, Warhol exhibited not the objects themselves, but created by their image and likeness of the sculpture. Moreover, he did not take any mass-produced items, but only those, whose design clearly recognizable. The artist has significantly expanded idea of what items may be considered worthy of attention of art: our visual environment is full of endlessly replicable images, whether photographs of celebrities or the logo on the packaging, and once the painters and sculptors can create a "exact copy" elements of reality - humans, animals, plants and so forth, unless the terms of these elements is limited and can not be mass-produced copy images?

At the auction also will Arrangement of four photographs, taken by Richard Prince (Richard Prince). Estimate of the work, created in 1980, is 400-600 thousand dollars. The images show the woman, turning their backs to the camera. According to experts, this work is a reaction to pop-art: the refusal to show his face symbolizes the unwillingness to give yourself at the mercy of media. Anonymous and faceless, these characters are like the antithesis of the famous uorholovskim "icons" - Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Jackie Kennedy and Liza Minnelli, whose images are so ruthlessly exploited by the media that they have ceased to be perceived as ordinary people.

Among the other top lots of the auction - the product collapsing Ed (Ed Ruscha), Richard Prince (Richard Prince) and Olafur Eliasson (Olafur Eliasson). Painting collapsing - a kind of night in Los Angeles, bearing the inscription Mean as Hell ( «evil as the devil") during the entire canvas. Like the work of Prince, the canvas was estimate 400-600 thousand. Eliasson's artwork, which was estimated at 300-500 thousand dollars, is a "cube world" created by the halogen lamps and devices for the formation of fog.

In addition, the auction will buy works Yayoi Kusama (Yayoi Kusama), Richard Artshvagera (Richard Artschwager), Rosenquist (James Rosenquist), Albert Olena (Albert Oehlen), Gilbert and George (Gilbert & George) and others.

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: phillipsdepury.com , artinvestment.ru