The results of the evening sale Sotheby's «Contemporary Art"
Earned 222.5 million dollars. Top lot, Warhol again
Yesterday the auction house Sotheby's New York auction took place in contemporary art. In general, for 49 of the 54 lots (91%) managed to gain 222.5 million, 8 million more than the top strap estimate. Art dealer Harry Blain (Harry Blain) called this the best result in this category since May 2008. In 2009, for example, on similar trades bailed out just 134 million dollars. The works of five artists, including paintings by Julie Meret (Julie Mehretu) and Larry Rivers (Larry Rivers), set a record.
And once again the top-lot auction was the painting of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol). After record sales yesterday at the Phillips de Pury picture of the king of pop art, "Men in her life" for 63 million , six-foot top lot Sotheby's «Coca-Cola 4 (large bottle of Coca-Cola)» called natural interest once the eight contenders. The result, however, was not so overwhelming as to Phillips, but much higher estimate: 35.4 million dollars Estimé 20-25 million dollars.
picture auctioned curator and photographer Elizabeth Rishburg Rea (Elizabeth Richebourg Rea). In 1983 it acquired the painting for 143,000 dollars. The plot was borrowed from Warhol advertisement published in the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper. The artist has written a total of four bottles of Coke, one of which kept the artist's hometown of Pittsburgh, in a museum in his name.
Looks like this fall Warhol works on contemporary art auctions are very popular: only 19 of his works suggested that buyers auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's. Yesterday at Sotheby's, in addition to bottles of cola, a good result achieved his painting "The Last Supper" (1986), based on a fresco da Vinci. Collector from Stuttgart Josef Frohlih (Josef Froehlich) thumbs invested: the picture was sold for 6.8 million dollars (upper estimate 6 million), while in 1994 he paid a total 178.5 thousand dollars. tonight at Christie's will be painting "Big bank Campbell's vegetable soup and a can opener" to the upper estimate: $ 50 million . So we may well wait for a new high-profile results.
Heveler Consultant Mary (Mary Hoeveler) believes that today, Warhol is the engine of the market post-war and contemporary art. In her words, "the appetites of the top segment of the exorbitant prices, dictate sellers».
Among the other top lots evening auction Sotheby's - the picture "Ice cream and soda" (1962) Brush Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein), pushed under the hammer for 14.1 million dollars (estimate 12-18 million).
aerial work Mark Rothko in yellow went under the hammer for 22.5 million dollars to the Asian art collector, who participated in the bidding by telephone. "Untitled" put up for auction is a Boston architect Graham Gund (Graham Gund), who owned a painting from 1969.
two canvases by Gerhard Richter (Gerhard Richter) were among the most expensive lots. Abstract paintings in 1992 brought 11.2 million dollars, and painting "Sailors," which Bremen Museum of Modern Art Vezerburg auctioned with the estimate 6-8 million dollars, went to a new buyer for the 13.2 million.
dealer in San Francisco, Anthony Mayer (Anthony Meier) left One of the most sought after works in the evening - a sculpture "Spider III» Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois). For the bronze statue almost meter-high, he posted 3.6 million, leaving far behind the upper limit of the estimate of 800,000.
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