Peter Doig suddenly became famous in 2007 when his painting "White Canoe" was bought at auction Sotheby `s for £ 5,7 million Since the critics could not understand who suddenly needed a picture Doig, one of the most obscure" Young British Artists ", which last 20 years creating his metaphysical landscapes without much success, attributed to the purchase of Russian. Exhibited on the auctions painting "Playground at night" is estimated at £ 1,5-2 million
Under no circumstances can no longer be cheap works by Yves Klein, especially from the series "Anthropometry" in 1960. One of the main French innovators, Yves Klein used to create their works rain, fire or body of models. "Ant N159" was created just naked bodies painted special IKB - "International Klein Blue. A sheet of paper (stuck on the canvas) with the imprint worth £ 1,2-1,8 million
Italian avant-gardist Lucio Fontana presented at the auction Christie `s just three works. True fighter plane pictures, he then dissects it ( "spatial concept", £ 600-900 thousand), then pierce (£ 300-400 thousand). Maximum "infinite continuity", which sought an artist, he has made in sculpture - a huge terracotta sphere with a slot. "It's mother's death, pure philosophy," - the artist himself says about his ball; soon after creating this terracotta "Spatial Concept" was shown at the exhibition of contemporary art in the Grand Palais in Paris. At the auction, he estimated at £ 1,3-1,9 million
A beautiful pair created at auction Christie `s work of Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach. Both the artist formed a London art school, but first he wrote, spilling onto the canvas all their crazy emotions and pain ( "Study for a Portrait", 1986-1988, £ 800 thousand-1, 2 million), and the second when the whole drama of painting ( "Debbie's Head", 1983-1984, £ 200-300 thousand) rather enjoys the process. These for contrast, you can also add silk-screen Self-Portrait by Andy Warhol (1966), passed through the hands of the most famous collectors and gallery owners and exhibited right from the inception, only a crisis could enable it to assess the £ 500-800 thousand
Auction house Phillips de Pury is not engaged in the arts over 50 years and usually focuses on the young, as we call them, actual artists. Nevertheless, the work of eminent artists here also enough - on the evening trading of the auction house offered 40 lots with a total preliminary estimate of £ 5,4-7,8 million
If you need to choose one star upcoming auction, then the Phillips de Pury is a photograph by Richard Prince "Spiritual America IV". In the late 1970's Richard Prince picked up the banner of pop art and America once again poked his nose in her weakness for advertising, a beautiful life, celebrities and powerful cars. It is the work of Richard Prince, a cowboy, filmed from the advertising of cigarettes, was the first in the history of auctions, photo, sold more than $ 1 million developing invented a way to "assign" someone else's work (appropriation art), Richard Prince photographed image decade Brooke Shields, who posed nude ( in this case more appropriate to say naked) Gary Grosso. Photo, from which the Prince removed the details and let loose the metaphysical fog, was called "Spiritual America" and became the subject of litigation. Twenty years later, in 2005, Brooke Shields has agreed to continue the series - she posed for a photographer (this time in a bikini), but Prince turned the photos into works of modern art. On auction work, where the Hollywood star was leaning against a motorcycle (another allusion to the Prince's early work - pictures girlfriends bikers), estimated at £ 400-600 thousand
German Thomas Schütte - one of the most popular contemporary artists in Germany, his works adorn the streets of many cities in the world. International recognition - a Golden Lion at the Biennale in Venice in the category "Best Artist" - Thomas Schütte received for the sculptures, like the one that sold at auction. This "Steel woman N7", torso of a woman lying on the rails welded from the table. Torso option seems some famous classical sculpture, only slightly oplyvshey from an unknown fever. The sculpture is estimated at £ 300-500 thousand
John Chamberlain, also a sculptor, but the material for his works are the remnants of old cars. John Chamberlain really loves them - he carefully chooses the pieces of the hood and fenders, sort by shape and color, so that later in his studio twist or flatten as possible art. Master began in 1960 with pop artists and minimalists in the legendary New York gallery of Leo Castelli, often called an abstract expressionist, working in sculpture. Quite a large piece, "Mr. Moto" in 1963, once visited by Leo Castelli, estimated at £ 400-600 thousand
Pieces of old cars used in his sculptures and Mario Merz, a representative of the Italian "poor art". Only his garbage (piece of iron, pieces of plastic) and natural materials (like the earth, wax, and twigs) were combined in order to show the possibility of the coexistence of past and future, other worlds and other companies. Later, Italian, moved to conceptualism - that in this period were exhibited at the Phillips de Pury auction work. This 11 pictures depicting people dining restaurant in Turin, the number of people at the table at each picture varies according to the Fibonacci sequence, invented by the medieval mathematician in an effort to comprehend the essence of the golden section. Work 1972, at the same time exhibiting at the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, estimated at £ 180-250 thousand
Its much more uncomplicated view of the car, an inevitable concomitant of rights in the contemporary world, demonstrates quite a young Indian sculptor Dzhitish Kallat. He made "Kollidontusa" - the skeleton of the car from the bones, with ribs, empty eye sockets and teeth in place of the grille (2007, £ 100-150 thousand).
Phillips de Pury, as well as other auction houses, in addition to expensive evening auction conducts daily, more democratic. They came and works by Russian artists. Here, too, there are classics - some pictures of Eric Bulatov (estimate £ 8-12 thousand), linen meadow with Oleg Vasiliev, melting in a light haze (1989, £ 70-90 thousand), and a new generation. For example, the grim "Goodbye Russia. Welcome" (2005, £ 18-22 thousand), Igor Novikov c pictorial human figures, soaring over savrasovskoy church and the stumps of birch trees, which no longer fly rooks.
Tatiana Markina
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28.06.2009, 18:52
Auction of Contemporary Art Christie `s and Phillips de Pury
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