held yesterday evening in London auction Sotheby's «Art Old Masters» type brush Italian Artist Francesco Guardi (Francesco Guardi) , exposed with an estimate of 15-25 million pounds, went under the hammer for 26.7 million pounds (42.86 million dollars). The grand landscape of the Grand Canal in Venice with the Rialto Bridge, beating drawing "Head of the Muse" by Raphael, now took second place in ranking of the most expensive paintings Old Masters sold at public auction .

Francesco Guardi Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge Coal quay. End of 1760 Oil on canvas. 115 x 199,5 Sotheby's. 06.07.2011 Estimate: 15-25 million pounds Result: 26.7 million pounds Source: sothebys.com

« Venice. View the Rialto Bridge from the Coal quay "- one of the big four (with a width of almost two meters) canvases late 1760s, which are considered the best in the work of Guardi. Another painting from this series in 1989 at Sotheby's Monaco was sold for 94.35 million French francs (15.9 million dollars).

During the long struggle of two rates of applicants Venetian landscape got a buyer, a seller on the phone - the interests of its represented in the hall of the Department of Co-Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby's in New York, Charles Moffett (Charles Moffett).

auction result was a landscape Guardi more than half of total revenue (47.6 million pounds) yesterday's auction Sotheby's «Art Old Masters" (estimate 31,1-48,1 million pounds). Of the 73 lots 31.5 percent were left without buyers. Customers choose only the best work.

Old Masters market is trying to keep up with more fashionable markets Impressionists, modernist and contemporary art, but it is rather difficult to offer a limited work, and the number of collectors. The results in this sector do not reach the high-profile records of other trades: 47.6 million pounds earned for Sotheby's old masters, it is not even half of auction house for contemporary art auctions (108, 8 million pounds) in London on 29 June . New York dealer Richard Feige (Richard Feigen) refers to the Old Masters, "a market for professionals." collectors are still prepared to argue for the fresh market products for the museum level, but the eye of zamylivshie meet been less enthusiastic.

Correggio Madonna with the Christ child and young John the Baptist. 1515 oil on wood Sotheby's. 06.07.2011 Estimate: £ 2-3 million Result: 3.6 million pounds Source: sothebys.com

Among the "new products" was the large painting "Madonna with the Christ child and young John the Baptist" brush of the painter of the High Renaissance by Antonio da Correggio (Antonio Correggio). The works of this artist rarely come up for auction, and this work, dating from the 1515 year, at least a century spent in a private collection in Switzerland. An argument with a New York gallery owner Otto Naumann (Otto Naumann), panel bought for 3.6 million pounds of art dealer from London, Angela Neville (Angela Nevill). The upper estimate of the lot is 3 million pounds.

«Portrait of a Monk of the Order of Carmelites" recently attributed Anthony van Dyck. This recent discovery has helped to sell the work for an impressive 713,000 pounds - however, within the estimate of 600-800 thousand.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artinvestment.ru