Auction of contemporary art Christie's brought 70 million pounds
Auction Catalog June 25 was sold at 80%. Top lots include works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Eduardo Chillida and Nicolas de Stael
evening auction of postwar and contemporary art Christie's ended with a score of 70 million pounds (108.5 million dollars). Sold out 80%of the lots catalog (51 works of 64), the result of the money has reached 90%.
most expensive work of trading is to be expected was the painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat "Untitled" 1982 . For it paid 18.76 million pounds ($ 28.97 million). The painting was created in the key period for the artist, and one of a series of double portraits, which also includes the work "Untitled (Two Heads on a gold background)" and set a new record price for a Basquiat work during the May auction in New York on the picture " clouded head ", sold for 48.8 million dollars.
Canvas Peter Doig" berth ", written in 1994 and since then has never left a private collection, was sold for 7, 34 million pounds (11.33 million dollars). On the creation of this monumental landscape Doig pushed tourist card with a picture of the Canadian Cameron Lake (Alberta). Despite the figurative compositions, "Berth" tends toward abstraction and is a reflection of how we see the world around us and remember. Two other proposed auction of Doig also exceeded the estimate.
yesterday were sold the first 8 lots of special collections "Tribute Chillida", which includes both the work of Eduardo Chillida, and artists whose work has tested its effect. All these works have participated in the exhibition of the same name, held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 2006. Total 8 items brought 7.33 million pounds. Sold more than all of the Chillida sculpture "In Search of Light IV» (2001): 8-meter and 17-ton monolith of Corten steel showed a record for the artist result - 4,000,000 pounds (6.3 million dollars). The remaining 39 lots compilation "Tribute Chillida" will be sold today as part of daily auction of contemporary art.
picture Nicolas de Staël Nicolas de « Marseille "in 1954 was sold for 3,000,000 pounds (4.7 million dollars). This is one of the best Mediterranean landscape works of the artist. A first work of Roy Lichtenstein in the art, imitating a bitmap, it sold for 2.8 million pounds (4.33 million dollars). So many have paid for the "Cup of Coffee" (1961), the image of which Lichtenstein borrowed from advertising in the newspaper. Tree of Yves Klein blue sponge - «SE 181" (1960) - was sold for 2.69 million pounds (4.16 million dollars).
significantly exceeded the estimate of 400-600 thousand Work pounds Enrico Castellani "white surface n. 34. " This is one of the five large-scale works created by Castellani for the Italian Pavilion Venice Biennale in 1966. "The white surface n. 34 "was sold for a record for the artist 1.85 million pounds (2.86 million dollars).
Top 10 lots in the evening auction Christie's "Post-War and Contemporary Art," 25 June 2013, London
| № lot | Description | Estimate, | result, | Buyer |
| 25 | Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled. 1982 | request | 18,76 | anonymous buyer |
| 9 | PETER Doig berth. 1994 | 4-6 | 7,34 | anonymous buyer |
| 56 | Eduardo Chillida In Search of Light IV. 2001 world auction record for the artist's works | request | 4 | anonymous buyer |
| 6 | Nicolas de Stael Marseille. 1954 | 1-1,5 | 3 | private collector, Europe |
| 27 | Willem de Kooning Untitled XXVIII. 1983 | 1,8-2,5 | 2,86 | anonymous buyer |
| 22 | Roy Lichtenstein cup of coffee. 1961 | 1,5-2 | 2,8 | private collector |
| 7 | YVES KLEIN SE 181. 1961 | 1,4-1,8 | 2,69 | buyer from Europe |
| 16 | PETER Doig whiteout. 1992 | 0,7-1 | 1,9 | private collector, Europe |
| 35 | ENRICO Castellani white surface n. 34. 1966 world auction record for the artist's works | 0,4-0 , 6 | 1,85 | private collector Europe |
| 39 | Cy Twombly Untitled (Rome). 1980-1981 | 1,4-1,8 | 1 63 | buyer of U.S. |
Source : Press Release Christie's
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