Auction house Christie's announced the top lots of the auction of postwar and contemporary art on May 15 in New York. This is the work of Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat with an estimate of 25 to 35 million dollars

auction house Christie's announced the top lots of the auction of postwar and contemporary art on May 15 in New York. This is the work of Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat with an estimate of 25 to 35 million dollars.

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work of Jackson Pollock «№ 19, 1948" refers to the key period of his work 1947-1950 period, when he invented the revolutionary painting technique spray paint on canvas - "drippinga." By 1948, Pollock had already mastered this "pouring technique" to perfection. Paintings from this period were more likely not consider a composition, and the direct expression of the unconscious of the artist. That's when Pollock stopped giving his work the name, and they just started to enumerate.

Work «№ 19, 1948" in white, black, silver-gray, blue and red colors are estimated at 25 -35,000,000 dollars. Auction record for Jackson Pollock to date is 40.4 million dollars. So much at auction at Sotheby's in November 2012 paid for other work in the technique of "molding» - «№ 4, 1951." Estimate «№ 4", by the way, also was 25-35 million. So who knows - maybe earlier film «№ 19, 1948" will be able to beat this record. Christie's, at least in its release positions «№ 19", as the most important work of Pollock at public auction in the last 20 years. Well, have to wait for May 15. The day before, by the way, auction in the evening auction of contemporary art Sotheby's will sell another work of Jackson Pollock - "Blue unconscious». This work was written in 1946, just before the invention "drippinga." Her modest estimate - 20-30 million.

name of the current owner «№ 19, 1948" in the official release Christie's was not disclosed. However, the information about it in the press still hit. This Washington industrialist and philanthropist Reylz Mitchell (Mitchell P. Rales) and his wife Emily. Pollock's work is on display in his museum of modern art Glenstoun in Potomac (Maryland). The last time the painting to be auctioned in 1993. Then «№ 19" bought for $ 2.4 million Francois Pinault. A few years later he sold the picture of Mitchell Reylzu in private transactions.

• Roy Lichtenstein
  The woman in a hat with flowers.
  1963 Acrylic on canvas. 127 x 101,6
  Christie's. 15.05.2013
  Estimate: more than 30 million dollars
  Source: artdaily . com

Another top lot auction on May 15 is the work of Roy Lichtenstein's "Woman in a Hat With Flowers" in 1963. This elegant parody of cubist portraits Picasso estimated $ 30 million more. In 1962-1963 Liechtenstein has four portraits based on the works of Picasso. Then the artist interested in the images of popular culture, whether it be comics or replicated artwork. For Liechtenstein Picasso, Mondrian and Cezanne were as popular art as comics. Master of pop art ridiculed canons of art, his distinction between "high" and "low».

«Woman in a Hat with Flowers" was written on a postcard, sent to Liechtenstein owner genuine Picasso . In the portrait depicts Dora Maar, only according to the Liechtenstein it has evolved from a blue-eyed brunette to blonde. The composition of the work in general has not changed, but the complex color palette of the original portrait Liechtenstein reduces to a set of simple colors and dots.

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And one application for the record - the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat «Dustheads» (1982). Eclipse the current best result of the artist 26.4 million (Christie's, Nov. 14, 2012) is not such a difficult task, given the very solid estimate «Dustheads» - 25-35 million.

Paintings «Dustheads» published in most monographs on Basquiat, participated in his 2010 retrospective at the Foundation Beyeler and the last 20 years in private collections.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru