Video: Painting is included in the price. TOP 10 most expensive paintings of 2011
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The largest auction houses make billions a year. Including the sale of paintings. After all, some of the masterpieces of painting go under the hammer for tens, or even hundreds of millions of dollars. Here are the ten most expensive purchases of 2011, and we will tell you in this review.
1. Darmstadt Madonna, Hans Holbein the Younger, $ 70 millionThe painting Madonna of Darmstadt (or Madonna of Meyer) is one of the main paintings of the German artist Hans Holbein the Younger. Until recently, hung in the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, this work was sold to a German billionaire for $ 70 million.
2. Seated Eagle, Qi Baishi, $ 65 millionQi Baishi is the greatest Chinese artist in the history of this country. Here is his graphic painting Sitting Eagle and was sold at an auction in Beijing for $ 65 million.
3. Relocation of Zhihuang, Wang Meng, $ 62.11 millionChinese artist Wang Meng lived in the fourteenth century. He lived quite modestly. He could not even dream of 62.11 million dollars, which were paid for his painting Relocation of Zhihuang at one of the Chinese auctions.
4.1949-A-# 1, Clifford Still, $ 61.7 millionAmerican Clifford Still is one of the most significant representatives of Abstract Expressionism. His painting 1949-A-No 1 (painted, of course, in 1949), was sold at Sotheby's for $ 61.7 million.
5. I can see the whole room … There's no one there, Roy Lichtenstein, $ 43.2 millionPainting I Can See the Whole Room … and There's Nobody In It by American artist Roy Lichtenstein looks more like a page from a comic strip. However, it is one of the world's greatest pop art works. It was sold at Christie's for $ 43.2 million.
6. Litzlberg at Attersee, Gustav Klimt, $ 40.4 millionThe artist Gustav Klimt is the founder of Art Nouveau in Austrian painting. His painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, sold for $ 135 million, is the most expensive painting in the world. Litzlberg at Uttersee is, of course, cheaper. But also not a little - 40.4 million, so much was given for it to Sotheby's.
7. Madonna and Child, Titian, $ 16.9 millionThe medieval Italian master Titian needs no introduction. One of his most famous works, Madonna and Child, was sold at Sotheby's this year for US $ 16.9 million.
8. Football match, L. S. Lowry, $ 9.2 millionThe 1949 painting by Lawrence Stephen Lowry (often shortened to L. C. Lowry) depicts an impromptu soccer game in the industrial city of Manchester. This work was sold at Christie's London auction for US $ 9.2 million.
9. Vasudhara Mandala, Zhasaraya Zhirila, 1.31. million dollarsThe Buddhist sacred image of Vasudhara Mandala was created by the artist Zhasaraya Zhirila in the 14th century in Nepal. At the moment, this work is one of the oldest surviving works of Nepalese art. It was sold at Sotheby's for $ 1.31 million.
10. Falling apart, Jack Butler Yates, $ 325kJack Butler Yates is considered the greatest Irish painter of the twentieth century. His painting Falling apart was auctioned off in Dublin for $ 325,000.
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