Unbelievable but true: The Gagosian Gallery acquired Andy Warhol

Unbelievable but true: The Gagosian Gallery acquired Andy Warhol's four-part series for a princely sum of $ 62,900,000: "Race Riot", 1964, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas in four parts (Christie's Images Limited 2014) a frame-
It rained records for artists such as Frank Stella, Lucas Samaras, Joseph Cornell, Alexander Calder, Robert Gober, Barnett Newman, Martin Puryear, Robert Mangold and Joan Mitchell, with a painting by 1960 for 11, $ 9,000,000 to the new auction record for continued Knstlerinnen.
This is of course nothing compared to the top lot of the evening: Barnett Newman's "Black Fire I" scored $ 84.1 million. Or Francis Bacon's triptych "Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards" of Bacon's lover, the artist, who died in 1992 had used as his sole heir and went for $ 71 million to a private collector in Asia. A rather enttuschendes result, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" had set new standards in the last autumn auction with $ 142.4 million as the most expensive work ever to be auctioned.
A Mobile in the form of a fish by Alexander Calder ("Poisson volant, flying fish") brought a new record of $ 25.9 million. It also went to Asia, where the fish is a symbol for luck and wealth. Gerhard Richter's "Abstract Painting" from 1990 was auctioned for 29.2 million. Warhol is represented twice among the top ten lots. The "White Marilyn" from 1962, sold for $ 41,000,000. The four-part work "Race Riot, 1964" about the race riots in Birmingham, Alabama, went far beyond brisbane motor auctions the Schtzpreis $ 45 million for $ 62.8 million at Larry Gagosian brisbane motor auctions Kunsthndler.
Exciting of the evening was not yet. Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen worked between time as an extra in a game that had been written in advance. More than half - 39 of 72 the work had offered guarantees - the deals were therefore made in advance. It was impressed by the Bietaktivitt from China, here it on the anschlieenden press conference, showing where the money sits. A Kunsthndler from LA compared the collector from Asia with vacuum brisbane motor auctions cleaners sucking up everything that gets in the way. Extrapolating the zustzliche auction, which was run under the direction of the first 33-jhrigen Christie's employee Loic Gouzer on the eve under the motto "If I live I'll See You Tuesday," continued Christie's on two evenings a total of 879 , 5 million dollars.
Since Jeff Koons "Popeye" was still so confident of victory up your fists, at Sotheby's on the next evening there was only enough for a grand total of $ 364.3 million. 10 of 79 lots remained unsold. Nine records were achieved. Sotheby's had presented on its website brisbane motor auctions two top lots with Filmbeitrgen, a picture of Richard thieves grain "Ocean Park" series and Koons kitsch, more than 900 kilo Popeye character. To serve the new customers, the films with Chinese subtitles are equipped. brisbane motor auctions Popeye went for $ 28.1 million to Las Vegas king Steve Wynn, who will be exhibiting the colorful cartoon character in his casino. thieves grain color composition generated $ 10.2 million. Both works were only of Warhol "Six Self Portraits" (for $ 30,100,000) and Gerhard Richter's "Blue" in 1988 for $ 28.7 million brisbane motor auctions bertrumpft.
A work of Richard Prince's Cowboy series brought three million dollars. A knitting image by Rosemarie Trockel with Playboy panties motif the record of $ 4.9 million, three of Urs Fischer's candle sculptures in the form of a blond, redheaded nude brnetten and $ 3.5 million, the image of two Men in a German shopping arcade of Martin Kippenberger $ 5.5 million and a photo of Cindy Sherman from 1981 $ 3.8 million. An image ("Two Guys and a Girl") of the first 1989-born New York artist's Lucien Smith went for $ 230,000 under the hammer. All works are from the collection of the 45-jhrigen New York hedge fund manager Adam Sender. One of the first of the Finanzhai industry, who collected seriously. After he closed his business and because an expensive divorce from his long-standing wife present, he separates himself over the next few months from a total of 400 works by 139 artists.
As with Christie's was also at Sotheby's flame-work of Wade Guyton (2006), who had probably berflutet protest the Christie's auction his studio with other copies of his work, landed on the auction block. It was over the top Schtzwert of 4.5 million sold for a record $ 5.9 million. "The speculators brisbane motor auctions finally with success the art turned into a commodity," Frances Beatty had declared of figs & Co "Art in America" according to the Christie's auction. "What a Trium