New records at Sotheby’s auction Automatic translate

NEW YORK. November 14 at Sotheby’s auction left the last of four paintings by Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), presented as part of the days of contemporary art.

Andy Warhol - Silver Car Crash
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As expected, the work broke the record for the value of the artist’s works, reaching its new owner (bypassing two competitors) for $ 105,445,000. The Silver Car Crash / Double Disaster was created in 1963 as part of the Death and Disasters cycle. Large-scale work measuring 2.43 by 4 meters consists of two panels. On the left panel is a series of 15 images of a car accident, and on the right is a large silver rectangle. Experts call this impressive work a bold cinematic allusion on the theme of death on a silver screen. Recall that the previous auction record of a mysterious pop artist, the former son of Polish immigrants, was $ 71,720,000.

Warhol’s painting was presented the day after the triptych of the British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was sold at the same auction for a record amount. For the “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (Three Studies of Lucian Freud), its new owner paid $ 142.4 million, setting a new world record for the most expensive work of art put up for auction. The case is unique also because this work of a British expressionist artist has never been put up for auction.

Recall that the most expensive works of art at the moment are the painting “The Card Players” by Paul Cézanne, sold in 2011 at a private auction for $ 259 million, and the painting “The Scream” by Edward Munch (Edvard Munch), sold at Sotheby’s last May for $ 119.9 million.

Anna Sidorova © Gallerix.ru