The top ten most expensive works of the year according to Bloomberg. Recall all: Still, Liechtenstein, Klimt, Schiele, Stubbs, Guardi, and many others

Against the background of the debt crisis, vskolyhnuvshego Europe, and with it the whole world in 2011, the cost of the most expensive works of art at a public auction fell by 41 percent. Such data are Bloomberg, based on the fact that the ten most expensive lots this year's total cost 413.6 million dollars, while last year, this amount equaled 698.6 million dollars.

stars Masterpieces of world art market in 2011 were in a deficit, so none of the exhibited works at a public auction not crossed the bar prices in the $ 100 million. In contrast, last year it was just two works: painting brushes 1932 Pablo Picasso's" Nude on a background of green leaves and bust » (106,5 million dollars, Christie's) and a bronze sculpture Alberto Giacometti" Walking man » (65 million pounds /103.4 million dollars, Sotheby's).

Sales evening auctions of Impressionist and Modern in London and New York have fallen by 21 percent compared with last year. Auctions of postwar and contemporary artists feel better: according to estimates Bloomberg, sales in this sector grew by 35 percent. A public auction of Sotheby's and Christie's in these two major categories (the impressionists and modernists, postwar and contemporary art), subject to certain sales of private collections, brought $ 3 billion (in 2010 this figure was 2.9 million dollars).

Works museum-quality authorship previously underappreciated artists - from Old Masters to the post-war abstract art - beat records and fueled the buying frenzy. Below is a dozen of the most expensive auction lots this year, according to Bloomberg. ( In fairness, we note that given the prices of individual works by Chinese artists and record sales in some Asian trading floors, the picture will look different. - AI.)

one. Large-scale abstract painting Clifford Still's went for a record 61,7 million dollars on Sotheby's November 9th . Almost three times been surpassed previous personal record of the artist 21.3 million. Work «1949-A-No.1» along with three other works of Still's put up for sale city of Denver to help out the means for opening in November this year, the museum works of Clifford Still. Only four of the Denver and brought to the auction house 114.1 million dollars.

2. Painting Roy Lichtenstein , 1961, looked out of circular hole man went under the hammer for a record 43,2 million dollars on Christie's November 8 . Work «I see the whole room ... There is no one!» is a collection of Ross Courtney (Courtney Ross), widow of former head of Time Warner Stephen Ross (Steven J. Ross).

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1. Clifford Steele 1949-A-No . 1. 1949 Sotheby's, November 9, 2011 Result: 61.7 million Source: bloomberg.com

2. Roy Lichtenstein «I see the whole room ... There is no one!". 1961 Christie's, November 8, 2011 Result: 43.2 million dollars Source: bloomberg.com

3. The Venetian landscape late 1760s brush Francesco Guardi "Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge Coal quay » hammer price reached in 26,7 million pounds (42.7 million dollars) at the auctions of Old Masters Sotheby's July 6 . This is the best result of the artist and the second largest price ever paid on open tenders in the section of the old masters, in the first place in the list of most expensive in this section - "Massacre of the Innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens (49.5 million pounds, Sotheby's, London , 2002).

4. Image lover of Pablo Picasso by Marie-Therese Walter February 8 at Sotheby's has been sold for 25,2 million pounds (40.5 million dollars) . Work «Reading» of 1932 (the same fruitful year, when the master wrote, "Nude on a background of green leaves and bust") attracted just seven buyers. As a result, it was bought by Mark Poltimore, deputy head of Sotheby's Europe, for its client (most likely Russian).

3. Francesco Guardi Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge Coal quay. End of 1760 Sotheby's, July 6, 2011 Result: 26.7 million pounds Source: bloomberg.com

4. Pablo Picasso Reading. 1932 Sotheby's, February 8, 2011 Result: 25.2 million pounds Source: bloomberg.com

5. 1915 Landscape brush Gustav Klimt, pre-priced at $ 25 million, was sold for 40,4 million dollars on Sotheby's November 2 . Picture «Littslberg on Attersee» returned on the eve of restitution Yorishu George, grandson of the pre-war owner Amalie Redlich, who put up the canvas and up for auction. The painting depicts a small town on the lake in western Austria. work until restitution was in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg. At Sotheby's Klimt landscape has acquired Zurich dealer David Lachenmann on behalf of his client, whose name he refused to disclose.

6. Cityscapes Egon Schiele "House with multi-colored linen. Suburb II » in 1914 reached a record for the artist 24,7 million pounds ($ 40 million) on Sotheby's June 22. Work exhibited Vienna Leopold Museum to get money to buy other works by Schiele - "Portrait of Wally" (the artist's mistress Valerie Noytsil). The most recent work is related, perhaps, the longest restorative process in history. "Houses with colorful linen" also bought Mark Poltimore for one of its customers.

5. Gustav Klimt Littslberg on the Attersee. 1915 Sotheby's, November 2, 2011 Result: 40.4 million Source: bloomberg.com

6. Egon Schiele houses with colorful clothes. Suburban II. 1914 Sotheby's, June 22, 2011 Result: 24.7 million pounds Source: bloomberg.com

7. Composed of four images of the artist in blue tones, «Self-Portrait" by Andy Warhol 1963-1964's reminiscent of images taken in a special fotokabinke. "Self Portrait" by Christie's May 11 has been sold for 38,4 million dollars.

8. Triptych «Three sketch a portrait of Freud Lusiena» (1964) Brush Francis Bacon got a buyer for 23 million pounds ($ 37 million) at < strong> Sotheby's February 10 . This triptych was the top single-lot auction, submitting 60 rare works from the collection of the Geneva collector George Kostalitsa. Total for this work helped out 93.5 million pounds.

7. Andy Warhol Self-Portrait. 1963 -1964 Christie's, May 11, 2011 Result: 38.4 million Source: bloomberg.com

8. Francis Bacon Three sketch a portrait of Freud Lusiena (fragment). 1964 Sotheby's, February 10, 2011 Result: 23 million pounds Source: bloomberg.com

9. Another picture of the XVIII century in the first ten lots from Bloomberg - « racehorse Dzhimkrek on Nyumarketskoy wasteland with a trainer, jockey and groom » (1765) Brush George Stubbs . At Christie's July 5th with a picture of this legendary racer Dzhimkreka, winning 27 out of 36 races, bought for 22,4 million pounds ($ 36 million). Canvas Collection of the British Vulavingtona bought a stake dealer company Piers Davies Fine Art in New York.

10. Finally, May 11 at Christie's recently the observed pattern «Untitled № 17» sold for 33,7 million dollars (upper estimate: $ 22 million). Work in 1961 with pink and red rectangles on the yellow-orange background was not present in 1965.

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10. Mark Rothko No title number 17. 1961 Christie's, May 11, 2011 Result: 33.7 million dollars Source: bloomberg.com

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru