[Евгений]

The estimated 3-4 million dollars a picture Briton Damien Hirst did not find a buyer for the New York auction house Phillips de Pury & Co on November 13. In general, the results of auction of works by contemporary artists, writes Bloomberg, been disappointing: the leading evening managed to sell lots on 9.6 million dollars with that conservative estimate of the total results of 23 million.
Hirst's painting entitled "Beautiful Artemis Thor Neptune Odin Delusional Sapphic Inspirational Hypnosis Painting" ( "Mad Sapphic inspired hypnotic painting beautiful Artemis, Thor, Neptune, one") was put up for auction in New York by Larry Gagosian Gallery.

Browser to Bloomberg noted the absence in the hall Phillips de Pury buyers from Russia and China: Clients auction houses from these countries much market opening for contemporary art.

Because of the global financial crisis, all the November auction of contemporary art ended with the low results. Thus, the total income Sotheby's and Christie's totaled 238.7 million dollars against 429 million expected. The representative of the house Sotheby's, commenting on the results of modern art auction, suggested that prices for works to revert to 2006 levels. According to the collector Eli Brod, "bottom" in the sector art market has not yet been reached.