Landscape by Egon Schiele sold at Sotheby's for $ 40 million
A total of Impressionist and Modern auction auction house was rescued by 97 million pounds. Set personal records for works by Egon Schiele and Tamara de Lempicka
past yesterday auction Sotheby's «The Art of Impressionism and Modernism » ended with a score of 97 million pounds, within the estimate 77,3-111,2 million pounds. Of the 35 lots, only three were left without a buyer. Lot 21 was sold by auction more million pounds, 27 - more expensive than a million dollars. Impressive average price of the lot - 3 million pounds. For comparison, last June at Sotheby's auction of similar earned 112 million pounds, but it had not sold 22 percent of lots.
As noted by London dealer Stephen Ongpin (Stephen Ongpin), offer in the category of impressionism Modernism and shrinking, so customers are actively traded in the market for new products. According to him, Sotheby's squeezed out of these compact high bidding.
Landscape "House of the colorful clothes. Suburb II» Egon Schiele (Egon Schiele), exposed Leopold Museum to cover the costs of restorative processes , went under the hammer for 24.7 million pounds (40.1 million dollars). Before the auction, on the job kind of person has made an irrevocable bid to the minimum price of the lot. However, during the auction unknown in the battle gave the surety rates headed the department of Russian Art Sotheby's Mark Poltimore (Mark Poltimore).
work of the Museum Leopold broke the previous Record prices for works by Egon Schiele, which belonged to the urban landscape of "Lonely House (the House against the backdrop of the mountains)" (1915), traded on the New York auction at Christie's in November 2006 for 22.4 million pounds. The interest for the paintings by Schiele is quite clear: the work Oil has lived a short life (1890-1918) artist rarely come on the market.
new owner of a bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti) «Three-reaching human II» (1948) became a New York dealer Franck Giraud (Franck Giraud), has paid for it 10 7 million pounds (the lower estimate: 10 million pounds). The last time this work was exhibited at an auction in 1988, and bought it for 3.85 million dollars. In 2008 the cast of the first version of this sculpture - "Three-reaching rights I» - quit the hammer at Sotheby's for 9.4 million pounds.
The price was the work of Pablo Picasso, as well as on the last trading day before Christie's . In the painting" Two. The Kiss "(1969), the new owner paid 6.5 million pounds (estimate 6-8 million ), and for his work "A man with a pipe and a sleeping nude" (1967), the buyer in the room paid 4.8 million pounds (estimate of 1.5-2.5 million).
new record was set at work Lempicka : her painting "The Sleeping" took a fancy to four customers, making bets on the phone. The price of a top estimate: 3.2 million pounds in the end was raised to 4.1 million. In 1997, the same painting at Christie's was sold for 294 000 dollars.
Portrait of a young neighbor of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had gone under the hammer within the estimate (est. £ 5-8 million, the result 5.6 million).
And finally, one evening a success was the sale of a small (18 x 25), Rene Magritte gouache (René Magritte) «The power of light" for 2.4 million pounds (estimate 0.8-1.2 million).
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
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