held yesterday evening in New York contemporary art auctions Christie's work by Roy Lichtenstein, 1961, looked out from a circular hole the man went under the hammer for a record 43.2 million dollars. This is one of 13 set last record. Total auction yielded 247.6 million dollars, given the commission buyers. And if you count the hammer price, the total revenue of the auction (220.8 million) to the lower estimate (226.5 million) still not reached. Yet of the 91 lots offered were sold, 82 which helped a lot of guarantees for up to 16 lots, 10 of them were protected by the guarantees of a third party. (For comparison, in similar auctions at Christie's last year guarantees were provided for only 7 lots). 90%target of yesterday's auction sales of contemporary art in and of itself is not bad, and certainly no match for his 62%condom analog bidding works of Impressionist and Modern week ago .

« Buyers will prefer art or gold rather than paper notes, "- said Eli Broad collector, leaving the hall after the auction. He was echoed by a Belgian collector Mark Vanmurkerke (Mark Vanmoerkerke): «People are not interested in the products of the financial markets. All are full of doubt. And this [art], at least, you take home ».

Not a bad start trading put selling 26 works from the Collection of American computer programmer and businessman Peter Norton (Peter Norton): This group earned a total of 26.8 million dollars. Top lot was a fun section of the sculpture of Paul McCarthy (Paul McCarthy) «head-tomato (green)": its new owner, art dealer Ivan Wirth (Iwan Wirth), paid $ 4.5 million - four times the lower estimate. This is a new personal record for the work McCarthy. From the same collection is Glenn Ligon and canvas (Glenn Ligon) «Untitled (Stranger in the village number 17)," which went to an art dealer Robert Mnuchinu (Robert Mnuchin) four times the estimate, and in general for a record price for the product Ligon 1.2 million dollars.

Paul McCarthy Head-tomato (green). 1994 Christie's. 8.11.2011. Lot number 5 Estimate: 1-1.5 million Result: $ 4.5 million Source: bloomberg.com

Kara Walker Further work «African't» of 25 silhouettes cut from paper sold for 386,500 dollars. And then a group of sculptures of mushrooms at the edge, "Mr. DOB in a strange forest," by Takashi Murakami was sold for 2.8 million dollars, than observed in the hall of the author.

Roy Lichtenstein «I see the whole room ... There is no one!» Christie's. 11.8.2011. Lot number 34 Estimate: 35-45 million dollars Result: 43.2 million dollars Source: bloomberg.com

top lot in the evening with a score of 43.2 million dollars was the pop-art creation by Roy Lichtenstein, "I see the whole room ... There is no one!" from the collection of Ross Courtney (Courtney Ross), widow of former head of Time Warner Steven Ross (Steven J. Ross). Collectors bought the picture man, looks like a round hole in the pupil, in 1988 for $ 2.1 million. Yesterday, the upper estimate of the work amounted to $ 45 million and it was protected by a guarantee. Purchaser during the hottest fight of the two rates of applicants out of the New York dealer Guy Bennett (Guy Bennett). Previous personal record of Liechtenstein - 42.6 million for the work "Oh ... Okay" (1964) with a red beauty on the phone - was set last year.

Andreas Gursky Rhine II. 1999 Christie's. 8.11.2011. Lot number 44 estimate: 2.5-3.5 million Result: $ 4.3 million Source: christies.com

The last auction will be remembered for another event: Photo of Andreas Gursky "Rhine II» was sold for $ 4.3 million and became the most expensive photograph in the world. Gursky took the palm from the previous record holders of Cindy Sherman, whose photograph "Untitled" (1981 ) only in May this year has reached the price at auction $ 3.4 million (more on the most successful contemporary photographers Read here ).

seems that is not in vain before the auction, a Broadway actor dressed as Spider-Man jumped around a bronze spider Louise Bourgeois, installed in front of the New York office Christie's . Whether business in a competent advertising, whether sculpture Bourgeois 1996 really better than others, - but yesterday, "Spider" has gone to an American buyer, a seller on the phone, for 10.7 million dollars - three times the lower estimate and by the way, a record price for the works of the famous Franco-American sculptor.

Top 10 auction lots Christie's« Post-War and Contemporary Art ", November 8, 2011, New York

Lot	Description	Estimate , million	Result , million	buyer
34	Roy Lichtenstein, "I see the whole room ... There is no one!". 1961 World Record for works by the artist	35-45	43,2	Anonymous sale
71	Mark Rothko white cloud. 1956	18-25	18,56	Anonymous sale
51	Andy Warhol Silver Liz. 1965	16-19	16,3	private collector, Europe
29	Louise Bourgeois Spider. 1996 < br /> world record for the artist's works	4-6	10,7	Private collector, U.S.
36	Andy Warhol soup cans Four Campbell's. 1962	7 -10	9,8	Anonymous sale
75	Willem de Kooning Untitled XI. 1975-1976	7-9	7,3	private collector, U.S.
56	Jeff Koons Baroque Egg with Bow (orange /purple). 1994-2008	5,5-6,5	6 2	Anonymous sale
62	SAY Twombly Untitled (Lexington, Va.). 1959	5-7	5,2	Gagosian Gallery
30	Alexander Calder Sumac. 1961	4-6	4,78 < /p>	U.S.
5	Paul McCarthy Head-tomato (green). 1994 world record for the artist's works	1-1,5	4,56	Europe

contemporary art auction Christie's - second in the November series of similar auctions, the leading auction houses. Yesterday at Contemporary-art Phillips de Pury & Co has earned 71.3 million dollars . It remains the case for Sotheby's, whose contemporary art auction will be held in New York York tonight.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

< strong> Sources : bloomberg.com , online.wsj.com , christies.com , artinvestment.ru