Top 10 and other results of Sotheby's
 

Auction house Sotheby's issued a press release, which summed up the first results of 2014.

According to Sotheby's, the past year was marked by the revaluation of the work of women artists, the most striking achievement of which were fantastic $44.4 million, paid for the painting Georgia O'keeffe "Dope" ("White flower No. 1") 1932 at the November auction in new York.
Among other artists, making this year their auction records, Artemesia Dzhentileski, Kay sage/Kay Sage, Julia Margaret Cameron, Via Celmins/Valentīna Celmins and other

But lot, surpassing its estimate in the largest amount, was a painting by Mark Rothko "untitled" 1970, sold for $39,9 million, while the estimate of $15-20 million

Top 10 expensive lots at Sotheby's auction in 2014:
1. Alberto Giacometti. The chariot. $101 million
2. Amedeo Modigliani. Head. $70,7 million
3. Vincent Van Gogh. Still life Vase with daisies and poppies). $61,8 million
4. Claude Monet. Water lilies. us $54.1 million
5. William Turner. Rome, view from the Aventine hill. $47.4 million
6. Francis Bacon. Three studies for a portrait of George Dyer. $45.4 million
7. Mark Rothko. No. 21 (Red, brown, black and orange). $45 million
8. Georgia O'keeffe. The dope. $44.4 million
9. Mark Rothko. Without a title. $39,9 million
10. Mark Rothko. Untitled (Yellow, orange, yellow, light orange). $36.6 million

I was surprised this year that Borovikovsky at Christie's with 83 000 dollars reached 5 million price drove in 60 times.

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