The results of the auction of impressionist and modern art in new York

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The most expensive van Gogh, Monet and Mondrian


Vincent Van Gogh. "Alley Elikana". Evening auction of impressionist and modern Sotheby's, 5 may 2015, new York. $66.3 mln
Traditional may week of auctions of impressionist and modern art in new York this time was delayed: Sotheby's shot, as usual, in early may, and at Christie's, it was decided to postpone the auction in this category until the mid of the month and hold them simultaneously with the auctions of contemporary art. This step was due to an earlier than usual time of opening of the Venice Biennale, which is an obligatory part of the program for the art community, including collectors, their consultants, and independent art dealers.

In the end, during the evening auction of impressionist and modern art on may 5 auction house Sotheby's raised $368,3 million by selling 50 lots of 64. The most expensive work was the "Alley Elikana" Vincent van Gogh sold for $66.3 mln (estimate at Sotheby's called careful "more than $40 million" and not a mistake). The picture got a collector from Asia (where exactly, is not specified, but you may recall that van Gogh in the late 1980s was very fond of Japanese tycoons). As always, successfully sold works by Claude Monet: for $54 million was purchased by another "Nymphaeum" ("Pond with water lilies") in 1905, and "the Ducal Palace" for $23 million and another version favourite impressionist motif, "a Pond with water lilies in Le Rozier", $20.4 million in addition, almost $30 million left the image of a woman Pablo Picasso, but this amount is somehow lost on the background of ensuing Christie's record ($179,4 million).


The sale of works by Piet Mondrian in art auction of impressionist and modern Christie's, 14 may 2015, new York
Main hopes of Christie's in the category of impressionist and modern art were associated with the auction "Forward to the past", during which were installed and the acclaimed world records. However, a strong collection of evening auction 14 may also be allowed to sell 93% of the lots for a total of $202,6 million and even set another record. "Composition No. 3 with red, blue, yellow, and black" Piet Mondrian went under the hammer for $50.6 million Is a record price for a Dutch modernist, and the total amount exceeded twice the upper estimate of $25 million to Nearly $17 million was purchased by Fernand léger, and the works of Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet a little cheaper — $16 million and $16.4 million in the ten most expensive at the end of this auction included Chaim Soutine, Edgar Degas and Constantin Brancusi.