Top 10 lots in 2011 according to Artprice
ARTinvestment.RU   11 января 2012

The top ten most expensive lots in 2011 according to Artprice allows auction records Celestial

the eve of New Year's, we introduced our readers with a list of the most expensive works of art sold at public auction in 2011, version of the site by Bloomberg . It went to the palm of Clifford Still's work, in the second place is a picture of Roy Lichtenstein, and the third - the Venetian landscape Francesco Guardi.

In a similar ranking, compiled by French site artprice.com, the alignment forces quite different: analysts Artprice take into account not only the best results of trading in London and New York, but also records of Asian sites. And the last surprise was enough. Even the leader of the auction year - it's Qi Baishi Chinese artist: according to Artprice, his work "The eagle on a pine tree," sold for 57 million dollars on May 22, heads the list of most expensive lots in 2011 (prices given in this article may differ from prices specified in other materials AI, in particular the rating according to Bloomberg, the value of Buyer's Premium).

top 10 lots in 2011 under the version Artprice

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Clifford Still

Author

Work

Price hammer,
of millions of dollars

Place and date of sale

1

Qi Baishi < /p>

Eagle on Pine (1946)

57,2

China Guardian Auctions Co., Beijing,
May 22, 2011

2

Wang Meng

Chzhichuan carries his dwelling on the mountain (XIV century.)

55,3

Poly International Auction Co., Beijing,
June 4, 2011

3

1949-A-No. 1 (1949)

55

Sotheby's, New York, < br /> November 9, 2011

4

< p> Roy Lichtenstein

«I see the whole room ... There is no one! "(1961)

38,5

Christie's, New York,
November 8, 2011

5

Francesco Guardi

Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge waterfront Coal (Late 1760)

38,256

Sotheby's, London,
July 6, 2011

6

Xu Beyhun

Work on a peaceful earth (1951)

36,68

Poly International Auction Co., Beijing,
December 5, 2011

7

Pablo Picasso

Reading (1932)

36,27

Sotheby's, London,
February 8, 2011

8

Gustav Klimt

Littslberg on the Attersee (1915)

36

Sotheby's, New York,
November 2, 2011

9

Egon Schiele

houses with colorful clothes. Suburb II (1914)

35,68

Sotheby's, London,
June 22, 2011

10

Andy Warhol

Portrait (1963-1964)

34 25

Christie's, New York,
May 11, 2011

modernists running the show in 2011 ...

Although the price of 57.2 million dollars for the work of Qi Baishi " eagle on a pine tree "and not reached until a better result in 2010 ($ 95 million for" Nude, green leaves and bust "Pablo Picasso), but it was with this result, the work sold at auction Beijing China Guardian, led the list of most expensive lots in 2011 year.

In the past year, three of the top ten auction results were shown on the trading floors Celestial. For the modernist, Qi Baishi product ( 1-ranked ) to be the work of Chinese artist Wang Meng Yuan era (ca. 1308 - 1385) "Chzhichuan carries his house on the hill", sold on June 4 Poly International for 55.3 million dollars ( 2nd ). This deal also erected on the work of Wang Meng second place in the ranking of the most expensive works of old masters (Rubens painting topped the list of "Massacre of the Innocents" (76.7 million dollars), while third place is occupied by Raphael drawing "Head of the Muses" (42.7 million )).

1. Chi Baixo
eagle on a pine tree. 1946
Source: artinvestment.ru
Wang Meng Chzhichuan carries his house on the hill. XIV century. VAN MAN
Chzhichuan carries his house on the hill. XIV century.
Source: china.org.cn

In the same auction house Poly International December 5, 2011 set a new record for Xu Beyhuna works: painting, "Labor at the Peace earth, "went for 36.6 million dollars ( 6th place ). Previous artist's personal record was 23 million dollars for his work "Landscape with Figures" (December 10, 2010, Beijing Hanhai Art Auction). Only one in 2011 no less than 40 works by Xu Beyhuna crossed the threshold price of one million dollars, which enabled their author to take fifth place in the overall ranking of artists by the auction yield with total sales of 212.8 million dollars.

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6. XU BEYHUN Work on a peaceful earth. 1951
Source: globaltimes.cn

$ 55 million ($ 15 million above the high estimate) for the work of American Clifford Still's "1949-A-No. 1 »( third place ) - a new record prices for works by this artist. Still pictures rarely appear at public auction 16 works for the last 16 years. And as many as four works went under the hammer at Sotheby's auction in New York, November 9, 2011. This group of paintings brought to expose them to the Denver 101.5 million dollars, and its author has set for 10 th place in the overall ranking of artists by the auction yield.

3. Clifford Steele 1949-A-No. 1. 1949
Source: bloomberg.com

In 2011, grew up auction prices on the product of two key members of pop art. The work of Roy Lichtenstein "I see the whole room ... There is no one!» ( 4th ) has reached the price under the hammer in 38.5 million dollars, half a million higher than the result of the last champion - a picture, "Oh ... Okay ... ", which was sold November 10, 2010 for $ 38 million. His colleague Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein ahead for $ 4.3 million and as many as six positions in the annual Top-10 consisting of four images of" Self Portrait "by Andy Warhol ( 10 - th ) at the auction of Contemporary Art Christie's May 11 was sold for 34.2 million dollars (estimate 20-30 million dollars). This is the fourth best auction result the king of pop art.

< td width = "248" bgcolor = "#ffffff"> 4. Roy Lichtenstein
«I see the whole room ... There is no one!". 1961
Source: bloomberg.com
10. Andy Warhol
Self-Portrait. 1963 -1964
Source: bloomberg.com < /span>

Another product of the old masters in the top ten most expensive works of the past year - a landscape Francesco Guardi "Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge Coal quay» ( 5th ), sold in July for 38.5 million dollars. And in the list of most expensive paintings of old masters that work is now in fourth place After the already mentioned works by Rubens, Van Man and Raphael.

5. Francesco Guardi Venice. View from the Rialto Bridge Coal quay. End of 1760
Source: bloomberg.com

most frequent winner of the annual rankings, Pablo Picasso, this one is content only 7th place with a picture of "Reading", depicting his lover Marie-Therese Walter. Repeatedly published work was sold for 22.5 million pounds (36.2 million dollars) on February 8 at Sotheby's in London. In the ranking of artists by the auction yield in 2011, Picasso also had to give up his place on the podium: the result is "only" 311.5 million dollars, he took 4 th place. And the top three this year in terms of sales included Qi Baishi, Zhang Datsyan and Andy Warhol.

< a style = "display: block;" false; "title = Reading Pablo Picasso. 1932 "> 7. Pablo Picasso Reading. 1932
Source: bloomberg.com
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painting by Gustav Klimt "Littslberg on Attersee» ( 8th ), sold for $ 36 million November 2, 2011 at Sotheby's in New York last year was returned for the Restitution of George Yorishu, grandson of the pre-war owner Amalie Redlich, who put up the canvas for auction. Landscapes by Klimt that type prized by collectors is extremely high: the four previous sales of similar landscapes ended final rates in the range of 28 to 39 million dollars.

8. Gustav Klimt Littslberg on the Attersee. 1915
Source: bloomberg.com

landscape by Egon Schiele in 1914 "Houses with colorful clothes. Suburb II »( 9th ) on June 22 at Sotheby's in London has left a record price for the artist, but within the estimate - for 22 million pounds (35.6 million dollars). This is one of the few Austrian expressionist cityscapes, still in private hands (put up for sale its private Leopold Museum), and one of three offered for public auction in the last ten years (2001-2011).

9. Egon Schiele
houses with colorful clothes. Suburban II. 1914
Source: bloomberg.com

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, < em> AI

Sources : artprice.com , artinvestment.ru



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