The auction of works from the collection of Gunter Sachs offered 35.6 million pounds
Records were set for works by Andy Warhol on the paper and printed graphics
ANDY WARHOL
portrait Gunther Sachs. 1972
Sotheby's. 22.05.2012
Estimate: 400-600 thousand pounds
Result: 1.3 million pounds
Source:
held yesterday evening auction of works from the collection of multi-millionaire ex-husband, and Brigitte Bardot Gunter Sachs brought to 35.6 million pounds (56.3 million dollars) - far more than the estimate of the total trading 18-25 million pounds. Buyers have found lots of 90.2 percent (97.5 percent in value terms). 10 lots left a million pounds more expensive. Updated personal records artists Allen Jones (Allen Jones) and Mel Ramos (Mel Ramos).
But best of all were sold, which is what one would expect, the king of pop art of Andy Warhol. His latest "Self Portrait" in 1986 with disheveled hair, went for 5.4 million pounds (estimate 2-3 million pounds).
set a record for a Warhol work on paper: silkscreen "Kiss (Bela Lugosi) "in 1964 reached a hammer price of 3.7 million pounds Estimé 700-900 thousand pounds. The most expensive piece of printed graphics (or series of lottery graphs) is now a portrait of Warhol's "Mao" in 1972, sold for 1.6 million pounds (estimate 300-500 thousand pounds).
Silkscreen "Flowers" width of 1.2 meters (one of six works of the series) went to the dealer Jose Mugrabi for 3.7 million pounds (estimate 3-4 million). Portrait of the Gunter Sachs played Warhol went for 1.3 million pounds (estimate 400-600 thousand). As for the portraits of his ex-wife Brigitte Bardot, the Warhol silk-screen printing with the charming actress sold for 3 million pounds (estimate 3-4 million pounds), and an original photograph by Richard Avedon, served as the basis for the screen printing, went for 145,000 pounds (estimate 40 - 60,000 pounds).
lively interest rates started the fight for the full set of furniture from the dummies Allen Jones in 1969. Desk, chair and coat rack sold separately with an estimate of 30-40 thousand for each subject. As a result, these lots have gone to the same buyer (his interests in the hall represented the head of contemporary art at Sotheby's Alexander Rotter (Alexander Rotter)) with a multiple excess of estimate: a table, for example, was sold for 970,000 pounds. The previous auction record Allen Jones was three times less.
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
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