The sale put up canvas Klein, painted naked bodies

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The sale billed Klein canvas, painted naked bodies

11/05/201007: 05

NEW YORK, May 11 - RIA Novosti, Larissa Saenko. Trading house Christie's on Tuesday evening opens bidding patterns of postwar and contemporary masters, has become iconic and still rising, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.

Among the top lots, valued at over $ 10 million - canvases by Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein.

Trading House focuses public attention on the work of Klein from the series "Anthropometry", made in the patented designer blue.

Anthropometry Klein, proclaiming the slogan "For the color! Against the line and pattern!", Called the painting, created by the human body prints on canvas. Work on these canvases reminded, rather, performance - nude women applied to a paint, then pressed against the white canvas. The first experiments with the technique of "living brushes" were held in the summer of 1958, and received a mixed reaction in the world.

A monumental work, performed in 1960-1961, shortly before the sudden death of the artist from a heart attack at the age of 34 years, valued at the amount of 8-12 million dollars.

Silver Liz "- Elizabeth Taylor, written by the father of pop art, Warhol in 1963 - also one of the top lots with estimeytom 10-15 million dollars. Critics believe that this is one of the most important and personal works of Andy's series on the icons of glamor.

Collectors are also invited to Warhol self-portrait in 1964 worth 7.5 million dollars, repeating his quick photo, taken in the machine in Times Square.

Among the works of living classics for sale exhibited the work of Yayoi Japanese feminists Kuusamo, successfully sold to the German New Nigerian nee Rauch and Chris Ofili, who acquired a scandalous reputation, putting the New York portrait of Mary, made with elephant dung.

Organizers of the auction does not specify all the components that are applied when working on his canvas "Dead monkey-sex and drugs, valued at over $ 1 million.

Christie's, winged soaring prices on the art market with the sale of paintings by Pablo Picasso's "Nude on a background of green leaves" for 106,5 million dollars, believes that the canvases contemporaries will also be demanded in the May auction.

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