First and second place in this list are, respectively, "Walking man I" Alberto Giacometti ($104.3 million) and "the massacre of the innocents" by Peter Paul Rubens ($76,7 million).

the Painting by Gustav Klimt became the top-лотом evening sale Sotheby's "the Art of impressionism, modernism and surrealism" on March 1. "Flower garden" refers to well-known and valued, "Golden" period of the work of the Austrian artist. It was written in the same 1907 that the famous "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Бауэр I". The painting "Flower garden" last year participated in the exhibition "Portraying a modern garden: from Monet to Matisse" at the walls of the Royal Academy of arts in London. The last time this work Klimt put up for auction more than 20 years ago.

Among other significant deals last auction Sotheby's — selling for £17 million still life by Pablo Picasso's "Plant de tomates" ("Bush tomatoes"); for £16 million — "portrait of Baranowski" Amedeo Modigliani@the semicolon and for £8.37 million paintings "Woman with mango" by Paul Gauguin.

Significant works by Gustav Klimt in the last six months was sold twice. And every time for fabulous sums. In February of this year it became known that Oprah Winfrey over $150 million sold in a private transaction to a Chinese customers "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Бауер I", which they bought in 2006 for $87.9 million And the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev recently sold privately by the same Chinese collectors of his work, Klimt's "Water serpents II" for $170 million. However, despite the huge amount, he Rybolovlev at the time paid for Klimt's even more expensive — $183,8 million It was one of the works purchased with the mediation of the Geneva dealer Yves Bouvier and who eventually became the subjects of litigation with a former client of art-дилером.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, telegraph.co.uk, artinvestment.ru