Works by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Gerhard Richter in 2012 brought 380.3, 334.7 and 298.9 million, respectively. The leader in 2011, Zhang Datsyan this time only the fourth with a turnover 241.6 million

site Bloomberg has identified three of the most successful artists in 2012, based on statistical data resource Artnet. The leaders of the past year were Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Gerhard Richter.

In 2012, the total revenue from the sale of Andy Warhol at public auction was 380.3 million (a little more than the result in 2011 - 379.4 million). The king of pop art that amount was enough last year to win the palm of Chinese artists Zhang Datsyanya and Qi Baishi ( took 1st and 2nd place in 2011 ). Although here it is not so much in some of Warhol's runaway success, and in reducing the number of sales of Chinese authors. Political and economic instability weakened the interest of Chinese collectors to work compatriots in 2012. If in 2011 the work of Zhang Datsyanya already brought 782.4 million (this is according to Artnet with the Commission; Artprice for the same period averaged $ 550 million without the Buyer's Premium), then in 2012, the annual auction turnover Datsyanya reached "only" 241 , 6 million. From the bronze medalist Gerhard Richter is separated by almost $ 60 million. Returning to Warhol: the most expensive of its work in 2012 was the "Statue of Liberty" in 1962. For screen printing with the effect of three-dimensional images to pay 43.8 million dollars in the November auction of contemporary art at Christie's in New York. A total auction turnover Warhol ever have reached $ 2.9 billion.

Pablo Picasso with the total auction turnover of 334.7 million dollars back in the top three. In 2011, the old resident rating Picasso was not allowed to break into the top 3 Datsyan Zhang, Qi Baishi and Andy Warhol. In 2012, the usual order of things restored, but the Spaniard is still not the first, and only the second. And this is after the permanent leadership Picasso for more than one decade. Well, times change, and now the pop art and Chinese art are sold as well as the works of Picasso. In 2012, he was beaten and overall record of Picasso's "Nude on a background of green leaves and bust", sold for 106.5 million dollars in February 2010. The title of the author of the most expensive in the world of work, which was sold at public auction, passed to Edvard Munch, whose "Scream" in May 2012, was auctioned off for 119.9 million dollars with the Commission. And the most expensive work of Pablo Picasso in 2012 was "Still Life with Tulips" in 1932 (41.5 million dollars, Sotheby's, New York). The total sales of works by Picasso in the history has already exceeded $ 5 billion.

In third place is the German Gerhard Richter auction turnover of 298.9 million dollars. Sale of works Richter grew by 48.8 percent compared with 2011, when the artist was only the sixth in the rankings. Special demand abstraction 1980-90's. For example, "Abstract Painting" in 1994 from the collection of Eric Clapton in October 2012 has been sold for a record 21.3 million pounds (34.2 million dollars). The last two years were a period of a breakthrough for the German abstractionist: Richter's most successful living artists by the standards and general auction turnover of money, and the record price for a job. He has joined the list of artists born after 1880, whose total auction revenue exceeded $ 1 billion.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru