"The Year of the rabbit" at Christie's
Sale of works from the collection of Playboy has brought almost $ 3 million
Auction house Christie's held in New York trading works from the collection of the famous men's magazine Playboy. Sale was named "Year of the rabbit." Buyers were offered 125 lots, most of, you guessed it, made the image a variety of beautiful women in negligee. Total auction brought 2.9 million dollars. For the lion's share of this amount of liability the deal with top lot - his paintings of pop art Vesselmanna Tom (Tom Wesselmann) under the name "Roth number 8, which is bought for 1.9 million dollars (estimate 2-3 million).
impressive sum was also to gain for Watercolor Salvador Dali (Salvador Dali) «girl Playboy months in the image of Venus by Velazquez. " The new owner is laid out for her 266.5 thousand dollars (peer review - 100-150 thousand). The work was commissioned by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (Hugh Hefner) and published in the January issue in 1967 as part of the material "Girl Playboy as a way of art." For a while, even watercolor hanging in the office of Hefner. Curiously, the "Venus in front of the mirror" by Velazquez, which Dali referred to in the title - is an image of naked women from behind, but the Spanish surrealist chose to paint her face on. In addition, the face of the goddess velaskesovskoy visible in the mirror, which keeps the front of her Cupid and Venus Dali persons generally do not.
At the auction were in abundance images of famous models such as Cindy Crawford (Cindy Crawford), Iman (Iman) and Elle Macpherson (Elle MacPherson), but they were cheaper than the nameless statues of pregnant women, made by George Segal (George Segal). Bought it for 170.5 thousand dollars Estimé 100-150 thousand.
Assembly magazine has more than 20 million photographs and five thousand other works of art. Works are stored in a warehouse in Chicago, where he is based Playboy Enterprises.
material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI
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