yesterday at an auction of contemporary and postwar art at Christie's in London have been set just two significant records. First, the purple bas «Le Rose du bleu (RE 22)" Yves Klein was sold for 23.6 million pounds (36.7 million dollars), which is not only a record for the artist, but for the entire post-war French art in general . And secondly, the early "Self Portrait" by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981, once was part of a meeting of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, went to a telephone buyer for a record 12.9 million pounds (20.2 million dollars). Well, yesterday's third achievement of the auction Christie's - it is the sum total of 132.8 million pounds (207 million dollars). So many have not yet brought no European auction of postwar and contemporary art.

Bas« Le Rose du bleu (RE 22) "Yves Klein is perhaps the largest in a series of bas-reliefs of marine sponges. This work was part of the lilac collection Everart Madeleine (Madeleine Everaert) and spouses Menil (founder of the museum in its own name in Houston), and participated in all major exhibitions of Yves Klein in the past 50 years. The upper estimate: «Le Rose du bleu (RE 22)" was 20 million pounds, Lot, whose successful sale was guaranteed rate of a third party, got a phone buyer whose bids received head of contemporary and postwar art at Christie's in Europe, Francis Autred.

«Self-Portrait" by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981 was not the first time hits record price. In 2007, he auctioned the Israel Museum and received a 14.6 million dollars. The result is then three times higher than the previous personal record Basquiat. Yesterday, "Self Portrait" in 1981 decided to sell a collector to the U.S. west coast and I must say, has not lost a moment: five work has risen by more than five million dollars.

«Self-Portrait" by Francis Bacon in 1964 ( the one on the which he painted himself with the body Lusiena Freud ) went to the new owner of 21.5 million pounds, slightly more expensive than the preliminary estimate of 15-20 million pounds. The last time this work exhibited in 2008, but she did not find buyers. After the defeat at the auction "Self Portrait" was the subject of litigation between the collector George Weiss and Christie's: owner in court trying to recover from the auction house a minimum guaranteed price of $ 40 million (apparently, it was after this court auctioneers zareklas themselves to give guarantees on the lots .) What ended the proceedings is not known, but in yesterday's catalog was a mark that Christie's financially interested in the lot and give him a guarantee. Whatever it was, yesterday, "Self Portrait" Bacon has successfully resold the dealer Christophe Van de Vega, who competed for him with William Akvavelloy.

fourth most expensive work of the evening was silvery abstraction by Gerhard Richter «Struktur (2)": it was sold for 12.7 million pounds in estimeyte 9-12 million.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru