Ten of the most expensive sculpture of the new millennium
Ranking of the best auction results sculptures created in the 2000s
Introducing the latest market survey of works of sculpture, a French information resource published by artprice.com.
sculpture brings today auction houses for more than 10%of total revenues, although its share of sold lots is only 5%. Over the last year, when prices for the work of sculptors grew 14%in this segment have been set new price records.
the classics - Giacometti, Matisse, Modigliani - continue to go under the hammer for millions of dollars. Much more interesting to try to understand how they feel on the market of the young generation of artists.
Top 10 best auction results of the new millennium sculpture
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Author
price auction, U.S.
Title
Bidding
1
Urs Fischer
6 million
Untitled (Lamp-bear). 2005-2006
May 11, 2011. Christie's, New York
2
Urs Fischer
900 000
Untitled (Candle). 2003
November 9, 2010. Sotheby's, New York
3
Urs Fischer
878 020
Thank You Fuck You. 2007
June 27, 2011. Phillips de Pury & Co, London
4
Abdulnassar Harem
700 000
Message /Messenger. 2010
April 19, 2011. Christie's, Dubai
5
Joan Vaskonselosh
657 762
Marilyn. 2009
February 11, 2010. Christie's, London
6
Banksy
550 000
mutilated phone booth. 2005
February 14, 2008. Sotheby's, New York
7
Matthew Day Jackson
550 000
< /td>Harriet (last picture). 2006
May 12, 2010. Sotheby's, New York
8
Urs Fischer
500 000
Airports are like nightclubs. 2005
May 11, 2007. Christie's, New York
9
Chintala Upadhay
440 000
New Indians. 2007
September 21, 2007. Sotheby's New York
10
Matthew Day Jackson
430 920
Tennanaut II. 2008
June 28, 2011. Christie's, London
In 2010, prices for works of Urs Fischer skyrocketed: November 9, 2010 at Sotheby's auction in New York his sculpture "Untitled (Candle)" set a new personal record, earning 900,000 dollars. This trend has continued this year, another record in May a giant seven meter sculpture "Untitled (Lamp-bear)," earned $ 6 million at Christie's auction in New York, at seven times the previous record by Fisher. With this result, Urs Fischer's most expensive artist to forty years. Fisher works rarely appear on the market (in the auction until now has sold only 20 of his works), but in May 2011 were sold just 4 of his work, and each of them brought more than 80 000 dollars. These include sculpture, robot "Airports are like night clubs," pushed under the hammer for 500,000 dollars at Christie's May 11, 2007. Swiss Climbing Olympus continued to price in June: 29 th at the Phillips de Pury auction in London, the third best result of the artist brought the work «Thank You Fuck You», sold for 550,000 pounds (878,020 dollars).
Sculpture young artist from Saudi Arabia Abdulnassara Harem "Message /Messenger" excellent performance at held at Dubai auction of modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish art Christie's April 19 this year, earning 700,000 dollars estimeyte only 70 - 100 000. But none of the earlier works were sold harem did not bring at auction $ 7,000 more. Harem of 36 years, and his work has been exhibited a few years ago in Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Huge (410 x 297 x 150 cm) sculpture "Marilyn" Portuguese artist Zhoany Vaskonselosh takes fifth place ranking: the London auction at Christie's in February last year, this pair of giant shoes, stilettos, collected from the steel pots, pans and lids, earned 420,000 pounds (657,762 dollars). Today it is beyond the reach Vaskonselosh; her other works (a total of three) sold a little more expensive than 150 000 dollars each.
Matthew Day Jackson, the only American in the rankings, set a personal record in 2010 year, when his work "Harriet (last picture)" was bought for 550,000 dollars on the New York auction Sotheby's (it happened three months after the work of Jackson «Bucky» yielded 570,000 pounds (783,000 dollars) in London auction Christie's February 11, 2010. But the drafters of the rating attributed these works made in virtually the same technique to different sections, and in the "sculpture" the top ten in the end came, "Harriet».
Although since 2010, no work of Jackson will not be sold for the money, and in 2011 four of his works have brought each of more than 100 000 dollars. Among them -« Tennanaut II », pushed from the auction at Christie's in London on 28 June for 270 000 pounds (430 920 dollars).
Banksy, the famous "unknown" author, is located on the fifth line list with the sculpture "mutilated telephone booth," sold for 550,000 dollars February 14, 2008 at auction Sotheby's in New York. This is the fourth of the top auction indicators Banksy. The crisis led to a screeching halt skyrocketing prices for things British: none of the works of the artist does not repeat the seven-digit success in 2008, which brought him to 13th place in the top 15 contemporary artists received for the 2008 general auction proceeds $ 12.5 million.
Indian artist Chintala Upadhay first appeared at auction in 2005 and earned only $ 7,000 then. However, after one his work has got into the exhibition in London Grosvenor Gallery, the rest work in the eyes of customers have purchased additional weight and switched to a different price category: September 21, 2007 sculpture "New Indians" went at auction Sotheby's for 440,000 dollars.
Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI
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