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Auction Results:

auction house Phillips de Pury held in New York, the largest in its history, contemporary art auctions: auction Carte Blanche and the subsequent auction of contemporary art brought $ 137 million and nine records for works by individual authors. If the auction house can be kept at these altitudes, it means that Christie `s and Sotheby` s has a real competitor.
Auction house Phillips de Pury rose to a new level on the art market - in one night was sold contemporary art in the $ 137 million, despite the fact that turnover for the previous six months was $ 50 million and was recognized by experts at home rather successful results.
Most of the record sum - $ 117 million - the auction brought Carte Blanche, 33 lots of which were collected by special guest curator, art dealer Philip Segal. This was the know-how: the curator was given unlimited powers, he was free to include all trades that he likes, the fact that the owners are willing to sell. Philip Segal in this regard was an ideal figure: the art dealer and art consultant, he recently participated in the formation of the largest private collections around the world (including those of the owner of Christie `s François Pinault). He collected works were, by his own words of the curator, his self-portrait, beginning with childhood memories of things Warhol and ending with the last impression of the exhibition of young New York artist Matthew Day-Jackson.
At the auction of 33 lots not purchased only 3, all others exceeded the estimate, and many have made records for the authors. The most expensive - at $ 63 million - sold Andy Warhol's silkscreen "Men in her life." It's almost the first work of the father of pop art in a new history of the art technology, one of the earliest examples of replicating the image and focuses primarily for Warhol Topics: scandal, sex, death. $ 4.6 million - is perhaps not surprising result for "Self Portrait" in 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat, painted himself in a crown of barbed wire, but $ 4.6 million for "Portrait of Marcel Briena the 1992 Felix Gonzalez-Torres is a heap of candy in the corner (the word "passion" for wrappers is responsible for the psychological richness of the image) - is a very impressive record. " the specter of Big N 16" German sculptor Thomas Schutte sold for $ 4.1 million , a huge white canvas "Untitled" conceptual Rudolph Stingela - for $ 2.7 million Charming and well-groomed, "Stephanie "wax trophy, a dream man, as embodied Maurizio Kattelanom, went for $ 2.4 million The only disappointment of trades - not found a buyer for" mechanical pig, "Paul McCarthy, a wonderful sighing (due to complex equipment), life-size pig , which was valued at $ 2,5-3,5 million
The same evening, immediately after the Carte Blanche Phillips de Pury held a regular autumn auctions of contemporary art - put up for him 26 lots brought $ 19.9 million, showing the benefit of the creative approach to the process. "Bidding Carte Blanche - a button to change the game" against the backdrop of the traditional preparation methods of auctions, "- said the" b "ideologue and chairman of the auction house, Simon de Pury. The new game has been extremely successful for Phillips de Pury. Now it all depends on whether he can stay at that level. "Several well-known figures in the art world have expressed interest in mentoring the next series of auctions, Carte Blanche, - said Simon de Pury .- We would like to focus first on the first of them and will announce the future in his time."
Tatiana Markina
The newspaper Kommersant »№ 207 (4507) on 10.11.2010