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It's about money, lots of money, and the hammer price of 3.5 million pounds (4.3 million euros) for the resulting 1981 work of Popknstlers was compared with the top lot of the evening an almost lcherliche sum. Francis Bacon's relatively small triptych "Three Studies for a Portrait autopl of George Dyer" (1964), protected to 15 to 20 million pounds, scored 26.6 million pounds (33.2 million euros). Four telephone bidders scrambled to Bacon's Portrtstudie his lover, finally there were only two, one of them from Asia, but eventually pulled the Krzeren.
But the lot that the Gemter most excited, came the following evening at Christie's under the hammer: Tracey Emin's "My Bed" (1998). Super collector Charles Saatchi had in 2000 for the mattress, with zerwhltem bedding, cigarette butts, dirty underwear and condoms paid 150,000 pounds, now the work should yield 800,000 to 1.2 million pounds autopl lying on the ground, more than double the previous record price for a work of Entfant terrible of the Young British Artists. Several bidders rocked each other up, and then the hammer fell at 2.2 million pounds (2.7 million euros). The glckliche autopl new owner is, you hre and behold, Emin's gallerist Jay Jopling. What's going on? A birthday gift for his Knstlerin with which he has earned autopl a lot of money? Or he wants to give about a museum's work? Perhaps autopl the Tate, as Emin, it has always gewnscht? Francis Outred of Christie's autopl hinted at the press conference after the auction, something autopl like this: "I still can not say anything, but the 'bed' will get a good home."
Christie's had 99.4 million pounds (124 million euros) Gesamterls Opposite the 93.1 million pounds (116 million euros) at Sotheby's once again in the lead. And the records tumbled: In addition to Emin's "bed" also achieved works of Jean Dubuffet and Michelangelo Pistoletto records, as well as "breakfast now (Self-Portrait)" (1984) by Albert Oehlen, which for more than a million pounds (1.3 million euros) changed autopl hands.
A record at Christie's drfte employees of competitors Sotheby's have particularly teased: The second most expensive work sold at Sotheby's autopl was "country-rock (wing mirror)" autopl by Peter Doig. The resulting large-format autopl paintings of 1999 born in 1959 British artist's autopl is the view from a moving car on a mysterise dreamscape, with one painted in the colors of the rainbow tunnel entrance. The auction house had protected the paintings to about nine million pounds, almost two million pounds above the previous record price for the artist, and sold it for 8.5 million pounds (10.6 million euros ) including Kuferprmie. Christie's made it even better here: Doig's paintings "inn" autopl (2002/04), one of the very few Selbstportrts autopl the painter, went away for 9.9 million pounds (12.4 million euros). autopl The buyer: Larry Gagosian Grogalerist. "Doig has left us for a day, but zurckgekehrt autopl immediately," said Francis Outred rejoiced.
Were unanimous in both houses that the market for post-war art is Beraus healthy autopl as long as they manage einzuliefern high quality, fresh product. The number of buyers from Asia is growing constantly, and more and more new, young buyers come to this. Ten percent of the lots sold at Sotheby's about went to new collectors who mitboten for the first time. Perhaps a sign that the auction autopl houses are right when they rely on the future of the market.
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