Sotheby's will put the painting by Edvard Munch for $50 million
ARTinvestment.RU   03 ноября 2016

Painting "Girls on a bridge" 1902 will be the top-лотом at the evening auction of impressionist and modern Sotheby's November 14

If the Edvard Munch painting reaches its valuation (and she will probably because the lot already has a guarantee of a third party), it will be the second most expensive work of the brilliant Norwegian artist, held through open bidding. Sotheby's owns the current record price for a Munch painting: $of 119.9 million in 2012 brought the sale to one version of the famous "Scream" (5-е place in our ranking of the world's artists).

the Work of "Girls on a bridge" was brought to the United States in 1960-х by a famous art collector Norton Simon. The last time it changed hands in may, 2008 — then the hammer price was $30.8 million including Commission. And before — in 1996, and again at Sotheby's, got $7.7 million

by the Way, very similar to the work of Munch "White night. Asgardstrand. (Girl on the bridge)", but slightly smaller (86 × 75,8) is in the collection of the Pushkin Museum. Of A. S. Pushkin. It is one of seven of the author's versions of this story. Moscow Munch brought the Paris Salon of Independent in 1903, M. I. Morozov.

the Growth of prices for works of Munch strikes. Original paintings and drawings are fabulous money, but also limited edition works are not far behind. At a meeting held on October 27 graphics auction Sotheby's lithograph of Munch's "Anxiety" has become a top-лотом: the hammer price was $826 thousand And the record for a lottery drawing Munch is currently $3.22 million

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



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