The auction of impressionist and modern Christie's brought 71.5 million pounds
ARTinvestment.RU   24 июня 2015

The top lots were works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall and others.

total revenue for the evening auction Christie's "the Art of impressionism and modernism", which took place on 23 June in London, amounted to £71 461 000 / $112 908 380 / €100 116 861. With the hammer went 84% exhibited at the sale of work (92% in monetary terms). In the auction was attended by collectors from 32 countries. A total of 24 the lot exceeded the price mark of £1 million (29 lots were sold for amounts in excess of $1 million).

j Vinz, head of London Department of the impressionist and modern art Christie's: "This evening has been demonstrated an increased demand for the works of leading artists of the late XIX — the beginning of the twentieth centuries, whose list was headed by a picture of Claude Monet. An interest was manifested on the part of collectors from around the world, which resulted in high prices for a number of works from rare works of Alfred Sisley 1872 years before the portrait by Picasso's 1969 years."

Top-lot auction was dated 1914-1917 over the years, a picture of Claude Monet "Purple irises", which after four minutes of intense struggle went under the hammer for £10 834 500 / $17 118 510 / €15 179 135 at an estimated cost of £6-9 million the Work was exhibited from a private European collection. "Purple irises" were written in the years when Monet began implementation of one of its most ambitious projects — a series of panels "Great scenery", the best of which are now exhibited at the Museum Orangery@

Written 14 December 1969 years, "Head" painted by Pablo Picasso has found its new owner for £4 450 500 / $7 031 790 / €6 235 151 (estimate: £4,8–6,5 million). This portrait of a young man is a musketeer or a young artist in the hat — was exhibited at the last lifetime exhibition Picasso in may–October 1970 Avignone@

Painting by Kees van Dongen Anita 1908, which he depicted close to him Parisian dancer Gypsy blood, was sold for £4 114 500 / $6 500 910 / €5 764 415 (estimate: £4-7 million).

Canvas by Joan Miro titled "Red flower growing toward the moon," written in 1952 — in one of the key periods in the creative career of the artist, brought £3 778 500 / $5 970 030 / €5 293 679 at an estimated cost of £3.5 to 4.5 mln@

Landscape "meadow Bouquet and in the" brush Marc Chagall was sold for £3 218 500 / $5 085 230 / €4 509 119 (estimate: £2.5 to 3.5 million). The work was acquired by the family of the last owner 35 years ago in the gallery Maeght in Paris. According to the compiler of the catalogue raisonné of Chagall by Franz Meyer, is one of the best floral still lifes by the artist in this creative period@

Painting Paul Signac "Port of Marseille" in 1934 went for £3 666 500 /$5 793 070 /€5 136 767 (estimate: £2-3 million).

Source: press release Christie's