According to the portal Artprice, in 2001 prices for works of surrealist painters have risen almost 123 percent. In the ranking compiled by the French resource to all places divided between the four main stars of this auction segment - Salvador Dali (Salvador Dali), Joan Miró (Joan Miro), Rene Magritte (Rene Magritte) and Giorgio de Chirico (Giorgio de Chirico).

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10.5 million

№ p /n	Author	Price hammer dollars	Title	Trades
one.	Salvador Dali	19,292,400	Portrait of Paul Eluard (1929)	10.02.2011 (Sotheby's, London)
2.	Joan Miro < /td>	15.2 million	Tenderness stars (1938 )	06.05.2008 (Christie's, New York)
3.	Joan Miro	13,427,540	Blue Star (1927)	21.12.2007 (Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine)
4.	Giorgio de Chirico	12,570,460	returner (1918 )	23.02.2009 (Christie's and Pierre Bergé, in Paris)
5.	Joan Miro < /td>	11,662,530	Rooster (1940)	18.06.2007 (Christie's, London)
6.	Rene Magritte	Empire Light (1952)	07.05.2002 (Christie's, New York)
7.	Joan Miro	11.5 million	Portrait of Madame K. (1924)	06.11.2001 (Christie's, New York)
8.	Joan Miro	stars Tenderness (1938)	03.11.2004 (Christie's, New York)
9.	Joan Miro	10 million	landscape by the river Love (1927) < /p>	06.11.2001 (Christie's, New York)
10.	Rene Magritte	9222810	married priest (1961)	06.02.2007 (Christie's, London)

Salvador Dali

chief surrealist works of all time have caused a bitter struggle for the February auctions in London this year, then the work of Dali offering and Christie's, and Sotheby's.

First, February 9 at Christie's there was a small (37,7 x 46,1) Sketch Dali, to the film "Honey is sweeter than blood." "Honey is sweeter than blood" - one of the pivotal works in the career of the artist in him having the key reasons they later developed method. Study was purchased for a record for the artist of 3.6 million pounds (5.8 million dollars).

However, where a record, and second there: the next day at the auction, entitled "A close Look: Private Collection "at Sotheby's bid for the work" Portrait of Paul Eluard "(1929, 33 x 25) up to 12 million pounds ($ 19 million) estimeyte 3.5-5 million pounds. The work comes from a prestigious collection of George Kostalitsa Geneva (George Kostalitz), who died in 2010.

In 2009, Dali's works have earned at auction for a total of 11.4 million dollars. Thus, in February this year, just two days Spaniard improved his result in 2009 more than doubled his work brought in 2011 and 25 million dollars. Having overcome its past annoying lag on prices of other Surrealists - the market leaders, Daly is now on a spirited horse in front of the former head of the list of Joan Miro.

Joan Miro

Joan Miro, the most expensive surrealist painter (32 th place in the Artprice ranking 2011 ), set aside in the list of most expensive for six positions. The main achievement of Miro - 15.2 million dollars for his work "Tenderness stars" (1938): this was accomplished May 6, 2008 at Christie's in New York.

November 6, 2001 at New York's Christie's auction of two eight-Miro show results for the first time breaking the limit of 10 million dollars on the secondary market. His "Landscape on the River Love" (1927) earned 10 million, 4 million more than the upper estimate (9th line rating) and "Portrait of Madame C. '(7th position rating) doubled its estimate and the price reached 11 5 million (before 2007 it was the best result of the artist).

In 2007, the auction house at auction in Paris Aguttes Miro work in oil on canvas "Blue Star" in 1927, which did not appear at auction since 1965, was sold for 9.3 million euros (13.4 million) - 2 million more expensive than the upper estimate (third line rating.) In the same year, June 18, bright watercolor "cock" earned 5.9 million pounds ($ 11 million) at auction in London Christie's (5th position). Four years earlier, on June 24, 2003, the same work was sold for $ 2.6 million (1.6 million pounds), also at Christie's in the British capital.

Rene Magritte

In 2002, it was Rene Magritte was the author of the most expensive at the time of surrealist paintings - May 7, 2002, his "Empire of Light" was sold for 11.5 million dollars estimeyte 5-7 million. Prior to that record prices for works of Magritte Surrealists never rose to such heights. The result of the "Empire of light" remained the best for the Surrealists until 2007, when Magritte bypassed Joan Miró. However, 2007 was the first successful all the same to Magritte: February 6, his work is "married priest" showed the second best result for the artist: the buyer has laid out for her 7.1 million dollars at Christie's in London.

Incidentally, the future of New York's autumn auctions Sotheby's and Christie's will offer customers As many as 8 pieces Belgian - Impressionist and Modern auction will be held today and tomorrow at Sotheby's will be 3 of Magritte, and at Christie's - 5 estimeyty oscillate between the amount of 700 000 and $ 12 million. Thus, for the first two days of the coming months there will be more auctions of works of Magritte, than all of last year.

Giorgio de Chirico

February 23, 2009 at memorabilia auction at Christie's in Paris, which sold a collection of Yves Saint Laurent (Yves Saint Laurent) and Pierre Berge (Pierre Bergé), France, through the Centre Georges Pompidou acquired the work of Giorgio de Chirico, "Returning "for 9.8 million euros ($ 12.5 million, 4-th row of the list). This result is almost double the previous record of de Chirico - $ 6.4 million, paid for his work "The great metaphysician" May 4, 2004 at New York auction Christie's.

Thanks to record "returns "In 2009 the auction revenue increased work de Chirico at 125 percent and totaled $ 35 million. Thus, in 2009, Giorgio de Chirico's got a 16th place ranking the most expensive artists Artprice. De Chirico works mainly sell Italian auction houses: they accounted for 44 percent of revenue from worldwide sales of its products and 60 percent of all transactions with the paintings of De Chirico in the market. The share of the UK, USA and France accounted for 24, 18 and 10 percent of auction proceeds from the sale of de Chirico, respectively.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artprice.com , artinvestment.ru