Sale art collection, Lehman Brothers has brought 1.35 million
Sale of art objects owned by the investment bank Lehman Brothers, brought 1.35 million dollars, reported on Nov. 1 agency Bloomberg. A total of 283 trades were exposed lot, the auction was the house Freeman's Auctioneers.
The most expensive lot of trades was painting "I love freedom," the American representative of pop art by Roy Lichtenstein, sold for 49 thousand dollars. It is worth noting as a series of seven works called "Polyhedra" by Robert Indiana - paintings went for 23 750 dollars in Estimé only six thousand.
Print Yvonne Zhakett - view of New York with a bird's-eye view - was sold almost ten times higher estimate (1800 dollars) - for 16 250 dollars. One of the most expensive lots also become lithography Luis Lozovik, Hanover Square, in 1929, pushed for 26 200 dollars.
The auction lasted six hours, and after the auction all lots were sold. Despite the fact that the sale brought in twice the expected amount of proceeds, the agency notes, comparable with the duty of Lehman Brothers, which is estimated at 250 billion dollars.
Bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008 - at that time he managed assets, the total value of which was estimated at 691 billion dollars. Lehman Brothers bankruptcy was the largest in U.S. history.
(Lenta.Ru)
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