Christie's auction opened 16 record price
NEW YORK, November 9 - RIA Novosti, Larisa Sayenko. The first day of the New York auction of postwar and contemporary works of art brought to the auction house Christie's 16 price records, including all-time record at the photo, the press service of the house.
Market raised to new heights by Roy Lichtenstein, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Mauritstsio Castellana. The large-scale bronze sculpture by Louise Bourgeois called "Spider" in the original estimeyte 4-6 million set a record at around 10.7 million dollars.
A photo of Andreas Gursky "Rhine II" has set an absolute world record in the genre, having gone under the hammer for $ 4.3 million and becoming the most expensive photograph in the world.
The work of Roy Lichtenstein, "I can see the entire room ... and there is no one" made in his usual manner of comics, set a record for the artist and was the top lot of trades - it was sold for 43.2 million dollars. It is noteworthy that the last time she appeared on the market in 1988, when it was purchased for a sum of just over $ 2 million.
Total revenues last Tuesday evening auction, which included the first part of the work from the collection of Peter Norton, was 247.6 million dollars, said the trading house. Bar in the $ 1 million higher than 33 works, the new owners found 90%of the lots put up for sale.
According to the organizers of the auction, this auction was attended by the owners of the world's largest art collections of contemporary art.
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