Auction house Sotheby's on June 26 in London will auction of contemporary and postwar art, which collectors will be offered 69 works with a total estimate of over 66 million pounds.

Among top lots - two works by Francis Bacon. One of them - a picture of "Head III» 1949 (estimate 5-7 million pounds). The web is a series of six papers presented at the artist's first solo exhibition in Hanover Gallery in the same 1949. "Head III» - the first image of someone humanoid Bacon. The man depicted in the pince-nez (the idea of ​​this accessory has appeared in Bacon after watching the film Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin"). The work came first in a collection of Californian Wright S. Ludington (1900-1992), who bought it before the Hanover exhibition for 150 pounds. "Head III» participated in key museum exhibitions Bacon.

also up for auction triptych by Francis Bacon's "Three Sketches Isabelle Rostorn." Bacon and Rostorn Isabel (Isabel Rawsthorne) met on that same show in Hanover Gallery in 1949, and has since Isabel was one of his closest friends and muse, shown in its many small-format portraits. Triptych, exhibited at Christie's, was completed in 1966, at a time when the artist has ceased to represent the only men in his paintings there and the ladies of the bohemian circle of Soho. The work is estimated at 10-15 million pounds.

FRANCIS BACON Three Sketches Isabelle Rostorn. 1966 Sotheby's. 26.06.2013 Estimate: 10-15 million pounds Source: Press Release Sotheby's

David Hockney East Yorkshire. 1998 Sotheby's. 26.06.2013 Estimate: 2-3 million pounds Source: Press Release Sotheby's

put up for auction a large-format diptych of David Hockney's "East Yorkshire" (estimate 2-3 million pounds). Work has participated in retrospect Hockney at the Royal Academy in 2012, and in the exhibition of landscapes at the Centre Pompidou in 1999. The artist wrote "East Yorkshire" in 1998, while in California, but in the 1990s he spent much time in his native Yorkshire. His aging mother and terminally ill friend were the cause of his regular trips to England. The mother they made long road trips on the Yorkshire wasteland, Hockney and subsequently decided to implement these silhouettes of hills in the works.

Globalization is devoted to a series of photographs by Andreas Gursky, in which he depicted various securities exchanges countries - one of the most famous in his work. For 20 years, photographer took ten shots exchanges on three continents. First for auction as five works from the series "Tokyo Stock Exchange" (1990, estimate 500-700 thousand pounds), "Hong Kong Stock Exchange" (1994, estimate 300-400 thousand pounds), "Chicago Board of Trade" (1997, estimate 700-900 thousand pounds), "Chicago Board of Trade III» (1999-2009, estimate 600-800 thousand pounds) and "Kuwait Stock Exchange II» (estimate 400-600 thousand pounds).

Andreas Gursky Chicago Board of Trade. 1997 Sotheby's. 26.06.2013 Estimate: 700-900 thousand pounds Source: Press Release Sotheby's

Lucio FONTANA Spatial Concept, the churches of Venice. 1961 Sotheby's. 26.06.2013 Estimate: 4-6 million pounds Source: Press Release Sotheby's

At the auction on June 26 will be exhibited three works by the Italian Lucio Fontana. This is the work of "Spatial Concept, churches of Venice" in 1961 (4.6 million pounds), inspired by the view of Venice from the bird's flight and gilded ceiling of the Basilica of San Marco, "Spatial Concept, Waiting" (3,3-4,5 million pounds ) and "Spatial Concept, Theatre" (0.8-1.2 million pounds).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : Press Release Sotheby's, artinvestment.ru