Over the last couple of months has been updated six auction records artists, including Tracey Emin, Joan Mitchell, Sarah Lucas and Taub Auerbach. Work Mitchell went for $ 11.9 million — a record for the female part of the art market

British artist Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin) with my own eyes watched as her provocative installation "My bed" at Christie's London auction July 1, was sold for a record 2.5 million pounds ($4.3 million) — almost five times more than her previous record result. Estimate installation with unmade bed, empty vodka bottles, torn tights and cigarette butts was 1.3–2 million dollars. This record became one of the main in a series of records artists, established at the auction of modern and contemporary art Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips in London and new-Йорке over the past two masaza@

new-йоркских auction of contemporary art at Christie's on may 13 (the same ones who brought 745 million dollars and become the best in the history of the auction house) abstraction "untitled" by Joan Mitchell (Joan Mitchell) 1960 was sold for $ 11.9 million. It is not only the best result of Mitchell, but the record for the entire female part of the art-рынка. Prior to this sale the list of artists — authors of the most expensive works became our Natalia Goncharova (in 2008 and 2010 her work was gone in 10.8 and 10.2 million respectively), Frenchwoman Louise Bourgeois, whose sculpture "the Spider" was sold for us $ 10.7 million at auction in November 2011, and Berthe Morisot (Berthe Morisot), whose portrait "After dinner" in February 2013, sold for 10.9 million dollarov@

And the next day, may 14, new-йоркских Sotheby's auction set a record for a work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel (Rosemarie Trockel). Her nameless knitted the painting was sold for 4,98 million dollars — four times higher than its previous record. The work "untitled" ironically contrasts the different statuses of women in society with the help of patterns with the Woolmark company logos (housewife) and Playboy (the epitome of sexuality).

At the same auction at Sotheby's installation representative of the YBA (Young British Artists) Sarah Lucas (Sarah Lucas) 1998 "Ace in the hole" ("ACE") reached a hammer price of 905 thousand dollars, which is twice higher than its previous record. The installation consists of four sitting on chairs rabbits with a female body dressed in red and black stockings, according to the colors of the card Masta@

at auction And Phillips reached record prices for works by Dana Schutz (Dana Schutz) and Tauba Auerbach (Tauba Auerbach). Colorful painting Schutz "Reformers" went for 605 thousand dollars, and canvas-обманка Auerbach reached a hammer price of 1.8 million dollarov@

Work painters recently sold better, they finally started to reduce the gap between works created by men. In the future, in ten years, some of the artist achieved the level of their male colleagues, — believes the collector Valeria Napoleone, in whose collection includes about 290 works of the fair sex. Collectors go in search of undervalued works, which can become a profitable investment. "Correct historical injustices in fashion now. The work of a growing number of artists appreciate", — believes art-эксперт kappellatstso Amy (Amy Cappellazzo).

The same My bed Tracy Emin in 2000 cost the Charles Saatchi 255 thousand dollars. Now London dealer Emin Jay Joplin (Jay Jopling) from the White Cube gallery paid for it 16 times more. Auction sales of works by Tracey Emin from 2004 to 2014 amounted to 13.1 million dollars in the past five years it has increased by 332 %.

with regard to Joan Mitchell, who passed away in 1992, during the last three decades of her work in the amount earned is greater than who works-либо of artists: total since 1985 to June 2014 was paid for them 293 million dollars. And for the last five years, the number of transactions has tripled, i.e. the market Mitchell has fully recovered after the crisis. Finally, she's coming by revenue to other artists of her generation like De Kooning, Franz Kline or SAI Twombly@

Among the other artists that are leaders in terms of sales, — 85-летняя Japanese Yayoi Kusama (turnover $ 163.5 million from 2004 to June 2014) and photographer Cindy Sherman (turnover of 91.5 million for the same period). Income from the sale of Sherman with 2009 increased by 500 %. But over the same five years the work of the artist Cady Noland grew 3,000 %. But to record the male part of the art-рынка yet still far away. For ten years (2004-2014) top-20 living artists earned 649,7 million dollars, while the top-20 living artists sold their works on 5,64 billion dollarov@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: bloomberg.com, cover-magazine.com, artinvestment.ru