David Hockney may soon become the most expensive living artist
ARTinvestment.RU   23 августа 2018

The owner of the club "Tottenham" billionaire Joe Lewis wants this year to sell the iconic picture Hockney "portrait of an artist Pool with two figures". The opinion of the owner for price — $80 000 000. David Hockney is now 81 years old

Now the auction record for a living artist belongs to Jeff Koons: $58 400 000 for orange dog from balloons.

Briton David Hockney — pop star-арта. Last year the Pompidou Center in Paris held a retrospective, which was opened by the President of France macron. This year was a big exhibition in new-йоркском the Metropolitan Museum of art.

Only in the current year paintings Hockney at auction twice took the barrier of $10 000 000 and once almost touched the bar. It is the historical maximum for prices. By the way, in the current year was set and the auction record for the artist — $28 453 000 for the three-meter canvas 1990 "Pacific coast Highway and Santa Monica". It was in may 2018 at Sotheby's in new-Йорке. But this time, victory in the struggle for the right to put the iconic work up for auction at Christie's tipped. Although this is only speculation: in the queue to the "Pool" so far are all main floor — and Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips.

"80 million" sounds a little steep. But it can be. "Pool with two figures" is perhaps the most famous work of Hockney. And it is noticeably superior to the ones that gave 10-20 million.

Joe Lewis made a fortune in stock trading and asset management. In addition, 85% of Tottenham he he owns real estate and a large collection of works of art. In his collection are masterpieces by Picasso, Francis bacon and Freud Luciana, who are happy to take in the Museum exhibition.

V. B., AI

Sources: bworldonline.com, esquire.ru, art-and-houses.ru

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