Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns and their most expensive work sold at public auction

portal Artprice published a ranking of the Top 10 most successful works of living artists. If living in our own ranking of living artists seats were distributed according to the principle of "one artist - one work," then rating of Artprice mentioned by some of the most expensive works of each artist. With this principle of construction sites in the rankings it only lasted three artists - Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons and Jasper Johns. All three of them - men and representatives of the Western art world. The majority (7 of 10) of the most expensive of their works were sold on auction sites in New York.

Top 10 works of the most successful living artists

Gerhard Richter: a new record for a living artist

«Cathedral Square, Milan" (1968) - the most expensive living artist, sold for the past ten years at a public auction. At the auction of contemporary art at Sotheby's in New York on May 14, 2013 is the large-scale painting reached a hammer price of $ 33 million (37,125 million including fees Buyer's Premium). The picture painted by the German artist Gerhard Richter (1932), known as the "Picasso of the XXI century". Prices for his work have grown by 300%over the past 10 years. On account of Richter 26 auction transactions over $ 10 million since 2008, when he first crossed the threshold with his painting "Candle". Richter's work today can provide almost half of the total revenues of key auctions of contemporary art. For example, October 12, 2012 his "Abstract Painting (809-4)," one time belonged to the collection of Eric Clapton, was sold for 30.4 million dollars (34.2 million including fees).

Jasper Jones: The symbol America

Contemporary Richter Jasper Johns (1930) has reached its best auction results May 11, 2010, when his painting "Flag» (1960-1966; 44,5 x 67,9) was sold at auction of contemporary art Christie's in New York for $ 25.5 million (28.6 million with the auction house commission). The price for the work that is relevant not only for the creativity of Jasper Johns, but for the whole of American art of the 1960s, well-deserved. In the MoMA is an early version of "The Flag" (1954) larger size (107.3 x 153.8). "Flag" as a symbolic thing, and work in this series so rarely appear at auction, which is a significant excess of the estimate ($ 10-15 million) is not surprising. However, in 1986 another job series - "Double Flag" (1962) - sold 24 times cheaper for 1.6 million dollars.

Jeff Koons: The successor

In its 58 years of Jeff Koons (1955) auction has reached such heights that allow you to call him one of the most commercially successful living artists of the last decade. His best little did not quite live up to the best results Richter giant sculpture "Tulips" stainless steel (about 203 x 457 x 520) at Christie's November 14, 2012 brought a $ 30 million ($ 33.7 million including commission). This is the first out of five sculptures, Koons Tulips. "Tulips" consists of a series of "Celebration", which includes the two other most expensive work of Koons - "The Flower of the balloon (Purple)" (22.95 million dollars) and "Hanging Heart" ($ 21 million).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources: artprice.com , artinvestment.ru