On Christie's exhibited Modigliani painting with an estimate of about $100 million
Does painting Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" (1917-1918) a chance to beat the current world record price for the artist?
auction house Christie's announced that its auction in November exhibited a painting of Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude" (1917-1918) with an estimate of around 100 million dollars. If the work is really going to reach a hammer price of, she will beat the current record for the works of Modigliani (70,7 million dollars for the sculpture "Head" at Sotheby's auction in November 2014).
"Reclining Nude" will become one of the top lots of the specialized auction Christie's "the artist's Muse", which will be held in new York on 9 November 2015. Leading experts of Christie's Brett Gorvi (Brett Gorvy) and Loic Goose (Loic Gouzer) published a paper of Modigliani in their profiles on Instagram before the official press release from the auction house and enthusiastic expressions described her auction potential@
still auction the threshold of 100 million dollars crossed only five authors — Pablo Picasso ("Algerian women (version "O")", 1955, $179,4 million.), Francis bacon ("Three sketch Lusien Freud", 1969, $'s 142.4 mln@), Alberto Giacometti ("Pointing man", 1947, $141,3 million.), Edvard Munch (the Scream, 1895, $119,9 mln@) and Andy Warhol ("Silver car crash (Double fault)", 1963, of $105.5 mln@).
But there can join this club Amedeo Modigliani? The estimate of "Reclining Nude" by about $ 30 million higher than its current record, and made a sculpture, not painting. Sculpture Modigliani were made of stone, and to date only 27, while paintings — much more. The most expensive paintings of the masters of today — "Nude seated on a sofa" (1917), sold in 2010 at Sotheby's for $of 68.96 million with the Commission. Overall, only eight of master paintings crossed the bar in auction $30 mln@
What factors might play in favor of "Reclining Nude"? This picture is the same as "Nude seated on a sofa", was purchased directly from the artist by his friend, the Parisian collector and dealer Leopold Zborowski (Léopold Zboroswki).
If you believe Christie's, "Reclining Nude" was among the few written for Zborowski Nude, which caused a scandal at first and only the Modigliani exhibition at the gallery of Berthe Weill in Paris in 1917. One of these works Nude was openly exhibited in the window of the gallery, around her, a crowd gathered, and the police demanded to immediately close vistavka@
"Reclining Nude" often published in catalogues and books on Modigliani, she has participated in exhibitions at the Centre for fine arts in Brussels, in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the State Museum of contemporary art in Paris, the Tate and the Royal Academy of arts in London, at the MOMA in new York and the Royal Palace in Milano@
Work was included in the collection of one of the leading Italian collectors Gianni Mattioli (Gianni Mattioli), and reportedly people close to this case, at Christie's auction painting was his daughter, art historian Laura Mattioli Rossi, Laura Mattioli Rossi).
will good provenance and rich exhibition history on the auction result "Reclining Nude" Modigliani — we learn in Nobre@
Sources: artnet.com, christies.com, artinvestment.ru
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