Christie's sold a Rubens painting for $58 million
ARTinvestment.RU   11 июля 2016

The painting of Peter Paul Rubens Lot and his daughters" became the top-лотом auction at Christie's and the most expensive works of Old Masters, when-либо sold by this auction house

At the evening auction Christie's "Old Masters and British paintings", which took place on 7 July in London early work of Peter Paul Rubens Lot and his daughters" was sold for £44.9 million ($58.1 million). Four contenders were traded for her for 14 minutes. This is the most expensive operation in the segment of the Old Masters, when-либо sold by this auction house. The absolute record for Rubens and for the entire market of Old Masters since 2002, holds the painting "massacre of the innocents" (1609 @- 1611), sold at Sotheby's for £45 million ($76,7 million). Only evening auction at Christie's on 7 July brought in £65.4 million ($84.7 million). With hammer away 77% of the lots and the proceeds amounted to 93% of the average total estimate.

two-meter painting "Lot and his daughters" was created in the period when its author had already considered the greatest artist of Antwerp and one of the best in Europe. Work boasts outstanding owners: they were rich Antwerp merchants, statthalter the Spanish Netherlands, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I, to the Dukes of Marlborough. The last hung a Rubens painting in his Blanchester Palace. For auction job Lot and his daughter," exhibited in the original blankumsee frame. More than a century it has not changed owners and did not participate in exhibitions. This is one of the most valuable works of Rubens still in private hands.

Among the other top-лотов trading it is worth noting the series "the seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" by Pieter Brueghel the Younger: the hammer price for the four works in oil on Board £6,466 million (estimate: £3 – 5 million). And two Venetian landscape Bernardo Bellotto left for £3.5 million (estimate £2 – 3 million).

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru