Mark Rothko painting for 35-45 million dollars will be at the auction in May
At night and day trading postwar and contemporary art collection of Christie's put up the late collector David Pincus, in which the works Rothko, Pollock, De Kooning and others
at night and day auction of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's in New York exhibited 40 works from the collection of a collector and patron of Pennsylvania David Pincus (David Pincus), who died in the late last year. Thirteen papers were included in the auction catalog of the evening on 8 May. The remaining works will decorate the trading day on May 9. Meeting Pincus, which has a work Mark Rothko (Mark Rothko), Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock) and Barnett Newman (Barnett Newman), is estimated more than $ 100 million.
Collection Pincus gathered together with his wife Gerry in 1959. They bought works by Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, Nan Goldin and Jeff Wall. Artists respect this couple for their activity and love of art.
Among the early acquisitions Pincus - "Orange, Red, Yellow" (1961) Mark Rothko. Work size of 2.4 by 2.1 meters wife bought Marlborough Gallery. Cloth, a long time exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art at Christie's offered a 35-45 million dollars.
One more top lot - «№ 28" (1951) Jackson Pollock. The picture was involved in retrospect master in 1967 at the MoMA. Now collectors have a chance to buy it for about 20-30 million dollars.
Work Barnett Newman in 1952 «Onement V» Pincus bought from his widow, Anna. Just as picture of Rothko, Newman's work took on lease the Philadelphia Museum of Art. At Christie's, it appears with an estimate of 10-15 million dollars.
And in thong from the collection of David Pincus will be the six works of Willem de Kooning (Willem de Kooning) - four sculptures and two paintings. Abstraction "Untitled V» in 1983, included in a recent retrospective at the MoMA Kooning, estimated at 4-6 million dollars. The proceeds from the sale of three sculptures and "Untitled V», go to the Pincus Family Foundation.
Work "Daughter of Lilith" Anselm Kiefer, with whom Pincus were friends, is estimated at 0.8-1.2 million dollars, and the famous photograph by Jeff Wall's "Talk of dead soldiers (vision after an ambush in which the Red Army patrol came around Mokora, Afghanistan, Winter 1986)" can be sold for $ 1.5-2 million dollars.
David Pincus for many years was a member of the Humanitarian Fund Elie Wiesel. By order of fund went to refugee camps in Ethiopia, Sudan, Bosnia and Croatia. He helped to emigrate to America, a Muslim family of five.
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
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