Among the best-selling author more than 80 years the majority are Americans, followed by the artists of China, and Europe is represented only unsinkable Lucien Freud

As the French Information Resource artprice.com, top ten results of the auction by living authors than 80 years reflects the growing interest in artists of this generation of investors, because most often it is the artists with an excellent "track record" , whose paintings are in the most famous museums of the world.

top 10 auction results of works by living artists over 80 years old

№ p /p	Author	price hammer U.S.		Title	Trades
1.	Cy Twombly (Cy Twombly)	13.5 million	Untitled (1967)	11.05 .2011 Christie's, New York
2.	Lucien Freud (Lucian Freud)	4662330		Self-Portrait (1952)	10.02.2011 Sotheby's London
3.	zao Wu-Ki (Wou-ki Zao)	4.626 million	2/11/59 (1959)	28.05.2011 Christie's, Hong Kong
4.	zao Wu-Ki (Wou-ki Zao)	4.369 million	14/11/63 (1963)	28.05.2011 Christie's, Hong Kong
5.	John Chamberlain (John Angus Chamberlain)	4.2 million	Nutcracker (1958)	09.05.2011 Sotheby's, New York
6.	Robert Indiana (Robert Indiana)	3.6 million		Love. Red-blue (1990)	12.05.2011 Christie's, New York
7.	Wayne Thiebaud (Morton Wayne Thiebaud)		3.5 million	Pies (1961)	09.05.2011 Sotheby's, New York
8.	Chu Teh-Chun (Teh-Chun Chu)	3.215 million	Winter inspiration (1987-1990)	04.04.2011 Sotheby's, Hong Kong
9.	Elsworth Kelly (Ellsworth Kelly)	3.1 million	Green White (1968)	12.05.2011 Phillips de Pury & Co, New York
10.	Robert Ryman (Robert Ryman)	3 million	No titles (1962-1963)	11.05.2011 Christie's, New York

Among the leaders of the list of most - six out of ten artists - the Americans, as it featured two Chinese (one of them twice) and Brit.

Cy Twombly came on the first line of the rating May 11, 2011, when the auction at Christie's in New York his work earned 13.5 million dollars. The new record of Twombly to 5.7 million exceeded its previous record, when another of his job without a title November 9, 2005 ran at Sotheby's auction in New York, 7.75 million dollars. Prices are impressive, but no surprise: all three of the best auction result Twombly belongs firmly-established works created in the 1960s.

At the same auction May 11 canvas "Untitled" by Robert Reimann went for a relatively small amount of 3 million dollars. Although this result is far from a record Reimann - 8.6 million dollars for his work "Untitled" - established in May 2006 at Sotheby's in New York, still a third the cost of the work of the author.

Just at noon the next day at the auctions of contemporary art house Christie's sold one of the sculptures "love" series by Robert Indiana, entitled "Love. Red and blue. " This giant work of American, representing the pop-art, never before put up for auction and brought $ 3.6 million (600 thousand more upper estimate), but only 200 thousand more than the previous record (3.4 million for work on acrylic canvas "Stamps" acrylic).

May 12, 2011 at the auction house Phillips de Pury work Elsworth Kelly "Green White" left within the estimate of 3.1 million dollars. In 2003, the same work was sold for $ 1.2 million at auction Christie's.

Three days earlier, on May 9, at auction at Sotheby's meeting was billed by Alan Stone, a New York gallery owner and collector of works of abstract expressionists. At the auction set a new record for a sculpture by John Chamberlain, "The Nutcracker" estimeyte 1.2-1.8 million dollars was sold for $ 4.2 million. At these auctions the second position in the ranking of most expensive work of Wayne Thiebaud took the "pie" with the result of $ 3.5 million, and the first line in this ranking took "seven lollipops" for which the 2007 New York Christie's auction was paid 4 million. Well, Thibault was a step closer to Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and who also exhibited at the gallery by Alan Stone.

Hong Kong in the ranking

Chinese masters are now at home in his lifetime recognition. Rating approve all three successful transactions (3, 4 and 8, dozens of lines) have made it to the auction in Hong Kong.

May 28, 2011 at auction in Hong Kong, Christie's has earned 53.9 million dollars , a considerable share in this piggy bank made just two of the canvas zao Wu-Ki - « 2.11.59 » (4,6 million) and « 14.11.63 » (4,3 million), together they have exceeded their upper estimeyty almost doubled, however, there is nothing surprising in the last decade, prices for the work zao Wu-Ki soared by 556 percent.

In April Hong Kong, at Sotheby's auction was made the second largest result for the works of Chinese abstractionist Chu Teh-Chun. His painting "Winter Inspiration" went under the hammer for $ 3.2 million.

only present in the ranking Briton, Lucien Freud, despite the dominance of the Americans and the Chinese offensive, firmly holds the second position with his "Self-Portrait." The work, which in size is not greater than the sheet A6, was sold for 4.6 million dollars (2.9 million pounds) at auction at Sotheby's in London February 10, 2011. No record for Freud, but it is the most expensive in the world of work among the works in this format.

Ten years ago, in a similar rating were only Americans. Today, it is interesting to note that, while Chinese connoisseurs do not hesitate to invest large sums in the domestic arts, in France, for example, still feel the palpable lack of collectors willing to invest in the creation of compatriots - the lack of, but not the absence of: Frenchman Pierre Solazh (born 1919) has recently set a personal record: May 31, 2011 its "Picture of 130 x 162 cm" was sold in Paris for $ 2.8 million.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru