Painting by Henri Matisse from the collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent on Monday was sold at Christie's auction in Paris for the record for the artist's € 32 million ($ 40.7 million).
Such an amount of fan art laid out for a picture of Matisse's "Primrose" (Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, 1911), whose preliminary assessment amounted to € 12-18 million.
This amount was a record for the work of Matisse, and almost two times higher than the preliminary estimate of 18 million euros
Also, new records set the value of Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Dyushama. Brancusi Sculpture "Madame LR", created between 1914 and 1917 year, went under the hammer for 26 million euros. The previous record was set in 2005, while for sculpture Brancusi paid 27,45 million dollars.
Ready-Made Dyushama "Beautiful Breath" (Belle haleine: eau de voilette, 1921) went for 7.9 million euros. Last record stood at 1.8 million dollars and was raised in 2002.
Abstract composition Mondrian in 1922 was sold for 19.2 million euros (estimate of 10 million euros).
At the same time, painting by Pablo Picasso's "Musical instruments on the table" (Instruments de musique sur un table, 1914), which was to be the most expensive lot, could not find a worthy buyer. Once during the bidding price for a painting fell below the provisional estimates of 25 million euros, the painting was withdrawn from auction.
Total revenue during the first day of trading amounted to 206 million euros. Thus, a collection of Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge has become the most expensive private collection ever sold at auction.
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