In the ranking of most expensive Japanese artists, compiled by artprice.com, all ten seats divided among only three authors

the rating of the most expensive works by artists of Japan, compiled by a French information resource artprice.com, all ten seats divided among only three of the author.

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№ p /p	Author	price hammer U.S.	Title	Date and place of auction
< p align = "center" class = "mat1"> 1.	Takashi Murakami < /td>	13.5 million	My lone cowboy	14.05.2008 (Sotheby's New York York)
2. < /td>	Takashi Murakami	6 million	Miss ko ² (1997)	8.11.2010 (Phillips de Pury & Co New York)
3.	Tsuguharu Fujita	5627907 < /p>	Girl in the Park	16.05.1990 (Christie's New York)
4.	Yayoi Kusama	5.1 million	Number 2 (1959)	12.11.2008 (Christie's New York York)
5. < /td>	Tsuguharu Fujita	3,126,688	Kids doll < /td>	14.11.1989 (Christie's New York)
6.	Takashi Murakami	3 million	Mr. DOB in a strange forest	12.11.2008 (Christie's New York)
7.	Yayoi Kusama	2.9 million	No. G.A. White (1960)	11.05.2010 (Christie's New York)
8.	Takashi Murakami	2.69603 million	Kaikai Kiki (2005)	14.10.2010 (Christie's New York)
9.	Takashi Murakami < /p>	2376840	Panda (2003)	3.04. 2008 (Phillips de Pury & Co London)
10 .	Tsuguharu Fujita	2115113	Two Sisters (1959)	16.11.1989 (Sotheby's New York)

Takashi Murakami

Today Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami ) - the most financially successful contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami holds that title in 2008, when the sculpture "My lone cowboy" has set an absolute record among all sold works by the artist, having gone under the hammer for 13.5 million dollars. This figure is 2.54 m tall, issued in 4 copies, almost three times higher than its initial estimate, amounting to 3-4 million dollars.

Also in 2008 five works by Murakami crossed the one million abroad. Among them are the work of "Mr. DOB in a strange forest (Red DOB)», sold for $ 3 million to November 12, 2008 at the auction Christie's in New York, as well as "Panda", purchased at auction Phillips de Pury & Co for $ 2.3 million (twice the price estimate). All three record-breaking sales in 2008 made a significant contribution to the impressive amount of the annual "earnings" Murakami, $ 30 million (for comparison: in 2002 the amount was much more modest - just 802,000 dollars).

2010 and became successful for a popular artist. Work «Kaikai Kiki» was bought for $ 2.7 million at Christie's auction on October 14, three times better than the estimate. However, the best result Murakami sculpture belongs to the 2010 "Miss ko ²», which brought $ 6 million to 8 November auction house Phillips de Pury & Co, organized by Philip Segal (Philippe Ségalot).

Murakami , whose exhibition was recently held at the Gagosian Gallery (Gagosian gallery) in London, shortly before she said that in his opinion, the price of his work is very overpriced.

Tsuguharu Fujita

Prior to Murakami's triumphant 2008 is Tsuguharu Fujita (Tsuguharu Foujita ) was the most expensive Japanese artist in the market. All six of his best auction results relate to the 1989-1990 year. May 16, 1990 "The Girl in the Park" earned $ 5.6 million at Christie's in New York. This record of 2.5 million more than the previous achievements Fujita, owned the painting "Children with Doll" (3.1 million dollars on the New York Christie's auction November 14, 1989). The third place among the most expensive paintings is a Japanese painting "Two Sisters", for which the November 16, 1989 at Sotheby's in New York City paid 2.1 million. Fujita could not overshadow the achievements of those years: in 1999, prices for works by the artist did not rise above 950 thousand dollars.

Works Tsuguharu Fujita sell well at auction in America (31%of sales) France (27%), Japan (20%) and Britain (15 %).

Yayoi Kusama

The acknowledged master of modern art, Yayoi Kusama Japanese (Yayoi Kusama) took 4th and 7th lines rating Artprice. Her pictorial work "Number 2" (4th place), which is considered a classic example of creativity Kusama was November 12, 2008 sold at Christie's auction in New York for $ 5.1 million. This result is still the best for the works of the artist. The second important result proved oil painting «No. G.A. White », which brought 2.9 million dollars at Christie's in New York November 11, 2010.

48 percent put up for auction works Kusama sold in Japan, with the main contribution to the auction "piggy bank" of the artist making the U.S. (49%), Japan (28%) and Britain (12 %).

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

Source: artprice.com , artinvestment.ru