Picture of Alberto Giacometti at 30-50 million at Christie's

Alberto Giacometti
Diego - shirt tartan (Diego en chemise
écossaise). 1954
Oil on canvas. 81,1 x 64,9
Christie's. 5.11.2013
Estimate: 30-50 million dollars
Source : artdaily.com

On the evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Christie's, which will be held on November 5 in New York, exhibited painting by Alberto Giacometti's " Diego - shirt tartan (Diego en chemise écossaise)» 1954 . While that is the most expensive painting of Giacometti , which was put up for public auction : paintings estimate of 30-50 million dollars .

Are collectors today pay so much for painting Giacometti, if a record price for it so far is 14.6 million dollars with the auction house commission ( in the peak 2008, many paid for the painting " Carolina ") ? However, since then the name of Giacometti's already become a household name after the February 2010 it sculpture" Walking Man I » is the first in the history of art, for which a public auction to pay over $ 100 million (Sotheby's. 03.02.10. 104,3 million ) . But it was the canonical sculpture, but here - painting . What is this remarkable portrait, and whether it can be worth 30-50 million ?

painting for over twenty years did not leave a single collection and put up for public auction for the first time . On the canvas captures the artist's brother Diego. Giacometti returned to the image of Diego and his wife Annette again and again, they were the people close to him and his portraits of the basic models . " Diego - shirt tartan " can be considered one of the best and most accomplished portraits by Giacometti. In this work, the artist plays with different levels of image texture and color transitions . Usually Giacometti painting is typical gray monochrome palette , but in this portrait artist also uses shades of red, writing down his face and hands , as well as the cell on the shirt brother. The room in which sits Diego, placed in an additional frame, which creates the illusion of three-dimensional internal space. Appearance models most generalized , Diego - just a man , a symbol of humanity .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru