Buyer “Women of Algiers” Picasso set a world record at auction – Moskovsky Komsomolets

painting became the most expensive work of art sold at auction

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The second was a record price placed among statues. This is a set up in 1947 by the Swiss master Alberto Giacometti bronze 180-centimeter sculpture titled “Pointing man.” Presales forecast of experts, its provisional cost was $ 130 million, as a result of the work of art was acquired for 141.285 million dollars, becoming the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.

” Women of Algiers (version O) “Pablo Picasso (Photo: christies.com)

held yesterday evening at the New York auction Christie’s” Forward to the past “, which were presented to 35 the brightest and most significant works of the masters 19, 20 and 21 centuries, have brought just two world record price. In particular, the “Women of Algiers (version O)” (Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) by Pablo Picasso sold at auction for a record 179.365 million – thus, created by the master in 1955, semi-abstract painting became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. For product fought several buyers for more than 10 minutes. A preliminary assessment of the value of the painting was $ 140 million. The new owner is in a bitter struggle to pay for it 160 million dollars plus commissions identity of the new owner’s masterpiece was not disclosed.

The final, 15th, very bright in a series of the artist’s work, created under the influence of pictures of the same name by French painter Eugene Delacroix nineteenth century belongs to the period when the master was fascinated by the style of Cubism. It is considered the most significant work of the artist, located in private collection.

For many years, “Algerian women” is in the collection of Victor and Sally Ganz – one of the most famous collections of the twentieth century. They bought the painting a year after its creation in the artist’s personal dealer Daniel Kahnweiler June 6, 1956 for 212,500 dollars. The collection consisted of collectors and other paintings from the series “Women of Algiers”. The collection sold out after the death of one of them in 1997, was considered one of the best, and its sales went down in history of the art market. At the auction, which became a triumph for the Christie’s (more than 207 million dollars), went under the hammer, and “Version O” of the Algerian cycle (it was estimated then at $ 12 million, and was sold for 31.9 million dollars).

The second record price was set among statues. This is a set up in 1947 by the Swiss master Alberto Giacometti bronze 180-centimeter sculpture titled “Pointing man” (Pointing Man). Presales forecast of experts, its provisional cost was $ 130 million, as a result of the work of art was acquired for 141.285 million dollars, becoming the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.

The sculpture is considered unique because the master her own hand-painted. So far, the most expensive Giacometti sculpture was “Walking Man I” (in 2010, the composition was sold at Christies auction for 104 million dollars). Generally, Giacometti said one of the most prominent figures in the surrealist and expressionist direction in art – his works are usually among the most expensive in today’s art market.

Recall the previous record holder was a triptych by Francis Bacon’s “Three sketch to portrait of Lucian Freud, “sold at Christie’s auction in November 2013 for 142.4 million dollars. Prior to that, the most expensive piece was one of the most famous canvases in the world – “The Scream” Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch, sold at Sothebys auction in New York in 2012 for 119 million 992.5 thousand dollars.