Video: Hockney's painting worth more than $ 37 million will be the top lot of the March auction at Christie's
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The famous auction house Christie's is planning to hold an auction in London at the beginning of March next 2019, and a work of art has already been chosen for them, which will become the top lot. It is a painting titled "Henry Geldzhaler and Christopher Scott" by David Hockney, an artist from Britain. The auction house spoke about this decision in a press release dated December 17, 2018.
The artist painted the picture in 1969. The work titled "Henry Geldzhaler and Christopher Scott" is a double monumental portrait. Experts estimate this painting at 30 million pounds, which is about 307, 7 million US dollars.
The artwork, which will be the top lot at the March auction, comes from a collection owned by Barney Ebsworth. This private collector collected paintings all his life, which were hidden from prying eyes. There are many expensive paintings in the collection. For the works of artists who have already been sold from this collection through the auction house Christie's, an impressive amount of more than 323 million US dollars was received.
The painting "Henry Geldzhaler and Christopher Scott", which were chosen for the next auction. We decided to take it to New York, where the pre-auction exhibition will take place. This exhibition starts on February 8 and ends on February 12. After that, the work of art will be shipped to London, where it will also take part in an exhibition scheduled for March 1-6. On the evening of March 6, there will be an auction entitled "Postwar and Contemporary Art". This exhibition will be the main event in the entire trading chain of the auction house Christie's. It was decided to devote all the planned auctions to the art of the last twentieth century. The first such event will take place on February 22nd and the series of auctions will end on March 7th.
David Hockney was born in 1937. Having decided to become an artist, he chose the direction of pop art and was able to achieve success in this direction, as evidenced by the fact that he is called one of the most prominent contemporaries, as well as the cost of the work of this artist. Not so long ago, the work of this artist has already been exhibited at the auction house Christie's. Then the auction took place in New York and buyers for the "Portrait of the Artist" paid 90, 3 million dollars.
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