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• PAUL Delvaux Caryatids
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• Francis Bacon Portrait of Henrietta Moraes
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Another is devoted to Artprice ranking of top 10 best auction results in the art nude genre that took place from January 2011 to May 2012. Subject nudity in great demand in the market: this is easily seen by looking at the previous record holder for the cost of works of art (just recently ousted from the first position by Edward Munch (Edvard Munch) ) - the work of Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso)« Naked on the background of the bust and green leaves, "which earned $ 95 million May 4, 2010 at auction Christie's in New York. However, this result still remains elusive for the top of the other works in the same genre, so that experts Artprice, apparently so as not to embarrass the rest of the impressive sum of the ratings earned by "Naked on the background of a bust ...", decided to consider the results of nudes, shown after remarkable record.

Location	Artist	Price hammer, dollars	Title	Trading
1	Pablo Picasso	36274500	Reading, 1932	Sotheby's in London 8.02.2011
2	Francis Bacon	29999100	Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963	Christie's in London 14.02.2012
3	Henry Moore	26 841 300	Reclining Figure: Festival, 1951	Christie's in London 7.02.2012
4	Pablo Picasso	20.5 million	Serenade, 1967	Sotheby's New York 2.11.2011
5	Pablo Picasso	19 million	Algerian woman, variant I, 1955	Christie's New York 4.05.2011
6	San Yu	14726560	Five naked, 1950	Ravenel Art Group Hong Kong 30.05.2011
7	Frances Bacon	11825940	Nude with bent feet, 1961	Sotheby's in London 29.06.2011
8	Francis Bacon	8500000	Untitled (Nude with bent legs on the railing), 1952	Christie's New York 11.05.2011
9	Pablo Picasso	8.5 million	Couple with a Guitar, 1970	Sotheby's New York 3.05.2011
10	Nicolas de Stael	8171320	Reclining Nude (Nude), 1953/54	Artcurial Paris 6.12.2011

However, from the Picasso we still can not get away: there are four in ten of his work, including one in the first place. It is also very comfortable in this ranking feels Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), more precisely, its nude models, with the convenience of the guests on the 2nd, 7th and 8th places. Most of the defendants created the rating of the twentieth century, more precisely, in the 1950s and 60s, and the prices vary from 8 to 36 million dollars. It is obvious that, as in other rankings Artprice, the price of the work are much smaller than the cost of Contemporary works of the modernists.

Perhaps the most famous cubist study of nudes in Picasso is "Avignon girl." However, the first on our list is the work of his "Reading" - made in 1932, is the oldest picture of the top ten. Served as a model for the portrait of the artist's mistress Marie-Therese Walter (Marie-Therese Walter), which, incidentally, is shown in the picture, and with leaves and bust. Picture of the "Reading" earned 36 million dollars on auction at Sotheby's in London February 8, 2011 - is the tenth best auction result Picasso.

At the 5 th position the work of Picasso, "The Algerian woman, variant I» , 1955 - one of the Wizard-15 variations on the theme of "Algerian Women" by Eugène Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix). This cycle is very popular among collectors because it was the first to experience a cycle of Picasso's works on the theme of classic paintings, and later extended variations on the theme of "Las Meninas" by Velasquez (Velasquez), and "Luncheon on the Grass," Edouard Manet (Edouard Manet). Between 1988 and 2011 was sold to 10 versions of. A May 4, 2011 at New York's Christie's auction a picture as a meaningful option 1, has truly become the number one for the price of papers in this series.

Interestingly, two other works by Picasso, present in the ranking are shown pairs (this work "A couple with a guitar," sold for 8.5 million dollars, and "Serenade," which brought 20 million and a half).

Another triumph rating is Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon), whose "Portrait of Henrietta Moraes," was sold at auction in London February 14, 2012 for 30 million - the 8th best auction result of Bacon. In addition, our list includes Bacon painting "Nude with bent legs," sold for almost 12 million, and "Untitled (Nude with bent legs on the railing)," which has found a buyer for it is not spent their 8.5 million dollars.

only in the ranking of the sculpture - the work of Henry Moore (Henry Moore) «Reclining Figure: Festival". This bronze figure of 7 February 2012 at London's Christie's auction brought record-breaking Moore's 26.84 million - nearly four times the previous record of the sculptor, owned by "reclining figure of three parts with drapery," which New York's Sotheby's auction earned a 7.5 million dollars. However, Henry Moore, it seems, is not the last time we are encouraged by records: in his series of reclining figures of around one hundred works, so surely some of them will be able to "lie down" once in a similar line, and higher ranking.

Job "Five naked" Franco-Chinese artist San Yu (San Yu) in May last year has brought its author a record price, earning at auction in Hong Kong (which held the company Ravenel Art Group) 14,72 million dollars - almost twice its previous record on November 27, 2010, owned the paper "Chrysanthemum in white with a blue flower boxes," which brought $ 6 million at auction at Christie's in Hong Kong. San Yu's work is mainly sold in Asia in the U.S. and Britain to the present has been sold only six of his paintings, but he is quite well known in France: the country accounts for 14 percent of transactions with his work (while the Asian countries account for 82 per cent) .

winter of 2011 the market worried by the news of the sale of the auction house Artcurial de Stael (Nicolas de Stael) «Reclining Nude." The work is not leaving the private collection since 1954, earned 8.17 million dollars - a record, due perhaps in part to the fact that the artist turned to nude only in the last three years of his life after meeting with his lover Jeanne Mathieu (Jeanne Mathieu .) The catalog Raisonné de Stael there are about 20 nude artist, and only three of them appeared in 1989 at auction.

On the last line of the list - the work Paul Delvaux (Paul Delvaux) «Caryatids" that brought 8 million in May 2011, a Belgian record, nearly doubling the previous one, when for 4.72 million dollars in the December 1999 auction in London Christie's was bought by his work "The Mirror". Painting "Caryatids" had every chance of success from the start: founded in 1946, it belongs to the classical works of Delvaux, created art inspired by Giorgio de Chirico (Giorgio de Chirico), in which the mysterious naked and half-naked female figures are placed in a mysterious , a fabulous interior.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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