Sotheby's - 100% sale of masterpieces from the collection Floors Melln
 

In new York in the evening of 10 November, the first of three sessions of the sale of a property from the collection of Mrs. Floors Mellon - Masterworks from the Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon.

At the auction there was a sharp increase of more than $ 38 million above assessment has resulted in $ 158 700 000 and sale of all 43 lots, has achieved legendary status of "white gloves".
Collectors from 32 countries on four continents fought for furniture Diego Giacometti, rare drawings of Georges Seurat and auction - paintings of Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn.
Painting Rothko "untitled" 1970 (lot 6) was sold for 39,925,000 USD, and it UNTITLED (YELLOW, ORANGE, YELLOW, LIGHT ORANGE) 1955 - 36,565,000 USD.

And, of course, we here about yesterday's departure for Contemporary Art Rothko to say:
NO. 21 (RED, BROWN, BLACK AND ORANGE was sold for $44,965,000.

Lately everywhere continuous records
Painting the jewelry watches
Does rapidly are new over the crisis

People hide money in masterpieces as I understand it and not expect to get the invested money that I hope to keep at least a large part spent
Of course the purchase of museums (particularly active from the middle East) do not count

It is You who?

And museums that you can't buy on your own???
Especially the middle East :)

For museums in Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, for example, buy Shahi and machine.

Okay
The dispute about anything
Buying for yourself or for them
We still
The main solid records harbingers of the crisis
And then we'll see what will be happening

And there is no dispute, I'm just clarify. :)
And what are records? Good goings - Yes, but the records do not see nor care Giacometti, or recent high prices for Rothko, nor yesterday's two top selling Warhol at Christie's record is not established.
Although things ed rush, CY Twombly and Martin Kippenberger in Proc. of trades and update their personal records, but there amounts, still, not giant, not in the hundreds of millions.

Can such treatments due attention to these things or even to the post-war sovriska, not in some future crisis?

And watches Patek 22 million
And fabulous new records on colored stones
Rubies and sapphires
And because the market for jewelry is what the market those same paintings as not many museums interested in
True women stones like more than picture frames :)

Watch a unique, caring for such a sum was to be expected, I. B., in ' 99 they had already bought for 11 million.
Prorubies and sapphires" do not say anything - little they understand something, but they like the unique provenance, previous owners were very famous, so to speak. :)