Christie's sold the "Flag" Jasper Johns for 28,6 million dollars
On the evening contemporary art auction, held on 11 May in New York, auctioneers Christie's rescued more than 231.9 million dollars, according to the site the auction house. Since the hammer was put collection assembled well-known writer, director and screenwriter Michael Crichton (Michael Crichton), as well as several important works of Warhol Andy and Roy Lichtenstein.
Top-lot auction was "flag" (Flag) of Jasper Johns. Canvas to the American flag was sold to more than 28,6 million dollars in Estima at 10-15 million dollars. This work, performed in typical American fashion artist at the junction of abstract expressionism and pop art, has set a new personal record price for the artist.
Customers also commended the work of one of the brightest representatives of pop art Andy Warhol's Silver Liz "(Silver Liz). Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, painted by the artist in 1963 and considered one of the most significant works in his series of "icons of glamor, was sold to an unknown buyer for more than 18,3 million dollars.
Among other things, the hammer went picture of Robert Rauschenberg's "Studio Painting (Combine)" (11 million dollars), the late work of Picasso, "Woman and girls" (Femme et Fillettes, 1961) (5,6 million) and the abstract painting "The figures on a landscape "(Figures in Landscape) Roy Lichtenstein (more than 4,3 million dollars).
One of the most expensive lots of evening trading to be expected was the work of Yves Klein of the cult series "Anthropometry" ("Anthropometry" the artist called his work the performative nature, performed by the "living brushes" - that is, with prints of human bodies on the canvas). The huge canvas "Anthropometry № 93 (Buffalo)" (Anthropometrie "Le Buffle" (ANT 93)) with imprints stained blue paint nude nudes that once graced the Paris apartment is a painter, went under the hammer for 12,4 million dollars.
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/12/auction/
Now the author of "Flag", 79-year-old Jasper Johns, an American living in Connecticut and is considered the most precious good health by the artist. For example, in 1998 the Metropolitan Museum in New York paid more than $ 20 million for his "White Flag".
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